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UFO Alert After Marriage Proposal: Last week several people near Plattling, Germany, called police to report UFO sightings. [more]
Sudoku Stops Drug Trial: A judge in Sydney, Australia, aborted a trial that had already lasted over two months and cost taxpayers around US $950,000 after he learned that some of the jurors were doing Sudoku puzzles while evidence was being given. [more]
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Flu Pandemic Inevitable, WHO Dysfunctional, Says U.K. Government: Think the bird flu threat is over-hyped -- or over? [more]
Where Procurement Stands Now: Faced with the ongoing challenges of globalization and corporate responsibility -- not to mention the effects of the economic slowdown in North America -- procurement professionals have their work cut out for them. [more]
Spreadsheet Risk Management: A Guide for the Perplexed: Spreadsheets are everywhere, and everybody knows they're a risk. [more]
Why Most Change Initiatives Go Thud: A startlingly high proportion of business transformation efforts go nowhere, says a new report. [more]
Business Continuity Lessons From the Great Flood of '08: The Midwest floods caught many companies flat-footed and punched holes in their disaster response plans. [more]
Extreme Makeover: How to Overhaul Your Business Model: In the life of any business, the time may come when it's imperative to reexamine the most fundamental assumptions of the enterprise. [more]
The Future of the Supply Chain: Lower energy consumption and emissions; better traceability; reduced traffic congestion; the consumer goods supply chain of 2016 will look very different from today's. [more]
Survey: AS5 Is Working: Businesses are seeing real benefits from the updated rules and guidance issued last year by the PCAOB and the SEC, according to a new study from Protiviti. [more]
The Right Way and the Wrong Way to Cut Costs: The good news is that companies these days treat cost containment as a discipline and an ongoing process rather than reactively. [more]
Employee Retention on the Back Burner: Major layoffs seem like a daily occurrence as companies whittle away at costs in response to economic times that get scarier every day. [more]
First Steps in FCPA Compliance: The SEC and the US Department of Justice have been stepping up their enforcement activities around the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. [more]
China to Edge Out U.S. as FDI Destination by 2014: The United States will remain the number one target for foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2008-09, but by 2014 China will push into the top spot, according to research from KPMG. [more]
The Growth Trap: The search for growth dominates the strategic agenda at many organizations. [more]
Pricing the F&A Outsourcing Contract: As providers of finance and accounting outsourcing services extend the range of their offerings, contract negotiations are becoming more complex. [more]
Inflation Grabs Headlines: In recent months inflation has overtaken the credit crunch as the central business news story, and with good reason, according to Larry Kantor, head of research for Barclays Capital. [more]
Foreign Investors Still Feasting on U.S. Securities: Overseas investors continue to gobble up Treasury notes and bonds -- a must for the United States to continue financing the trade deficit. [more]
ERM Still a Work in Progress at Life Insurance Companies: Financial services providers have long been the vanguard of enterprise risk management (ERM), but even these early adopters still haven't finished tweaking their programs. [more]
CFOs and CMOs Collaborate on Performance Management: On the traditional corporate organizational chart, chief marketing officers' and chief financial officers' paths seldom cross, but today's market environment necessitates cooperation. [more]
Spending on BI and BPM Should Reach $57.1 Billion: Despite a weak economy, the business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) technologies and services industry continues to grow. [more]
Cost of Employee Misunderstanding: $37 Billion: Everyone makes mistakes, but some errors are bigger than others -- and the big ones can be costly indeed. [more]