- Leadership and Corporate Culture Affect Company Success
What has a bigger influence on a company's future performance -- its culture or its leadership? [more]
- Why Your Strategies Don't Work
In a new book, Deloitte Consulting LLP's Michael Raynor weighs the conventional wisdom surrounding corporate strategy -- and finds it wanting. [more]
- CEOs' Chief Challenge: "On-boarding" Quality Staff
When it comes to finding talent, "on-boarding" -- or recruiting and hiring staff -- is the biggest headache for management executives. [more]
- Shortage of Accounting Staff Triggers Rise in F&A Outsourcing
The scarcity of competent accounting professionals is reverberating throughout US companies. [more]
- Procurement Outsourcing Poised for Rapid Growth
Fueled by a record number of large contracts in 2006, the procurement outsourcing market is on the cusp of an accelerated growth phase. [more]
- Halliburton Will Relocate to Dubai
Under congressional scrutiny, Halliburton is relocating its CEO and headquarters to Dubai, the "crown jewel" of the United Arab Emirates. [more]
- America's 20 Most Admired Companies
Fortune and Hay Group have compiled a top 20 list of most admired companies after surveying 3,322 executives, directors, and securities analysts. [more]
- Overcome Challenges, Articulate Strategy with Scorecards
Although companies continually collect data in their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, customer relationship management (CRM) systems and elsewhere, this information is often incommensurate and can be confusing. [more]
- Changing Global Market Conditions Demand New Finance Strategies
In 2006, stocks were up, bond prices signaled caution, and nobody could agree on the direction of US policy rates. [more]
- Study: Finance Innovation in Midsize Companies
Ventana Research has released an executive summary of its study, "Finance Innovation in Midsize Companies. [more]
- Do You Know the Value of Your Outsourcing Deals?
KPMG International has released a whitepaper detailing the results of an international study on outsourcing which suggests that 79 percent of companies cannot estimate the cost of selecting an outsourcing provider. [more]
- Business Failures Index Predicted to Climb in 2007
A decline in US GDP growth coupled with the rising costs of doing business will cause an increase in US business bankruptcies in 2007. [more]
- Asia-Pacific Corporations Push BPO Decisions to the Regions
Customers of BPO projects consumed in the Asia Pacific region (except Japan) in 2007 plan to pay more attention to unique regional requirements and get local decision-makers more involved in the BPO contract-award process. [more]
- A Perspective on Outsourcing F&A
The finance and accounting function is a particularly viable candidate for outsourcing. [more]
- Simplify S&OP for Better Performance
Top-performing companies hold sales and operations planning meetings every month, and treat S&OP as a simplified and collective planning process. [more]
- The "Other BPM": Business Process Management Can Boost ROI
Investing in business process management (BPM) tools is different than buying other software, since a BPM system by its very nature incorporates more than one process and addresses more than one problem. [more]
- Global Tax Strategy Guide Published
In joint effort, the UK magazine Financial Director and PricewaterhouseCoopers have published the second "Financial Director Guide to Global Tax Strategy," which aims to reveal the influence of prominent 2006 events in corporate tax strategy. [more]
- Albuquerque Named Best US City for Business and Careers
Buoyed by the lowest business costs in the country (24 percent beneath the national average), climbing incomes and a highly educated population, Albuquerque claimed the top spot in Forbes magazine's annual list of the 10 best places for business and careers. [more]
- Keeping One Step Ahead
Tumultuous changes in the global economy will constantly present new challenges to US businesses in 2007. [more]
- Wellness Programs Key to Halting Productivity Slide
The bad news: We're older, we weigh more and we're less active, so we're contracting chronic diseases at an alarming rate and triggering a serious decline in global corporate profits and productivity. [more]
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