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Man Sets Hotel Fire To Avoid His Wedding: A Japanese man tried to get out of his wedding by setting fire to the hotel where the ceremony was supposed to take place. [more]
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Top 10 Opportunities for G&A Savings: Whether we're already in a recession, heading into one, or just in a slowdown, belt-tightening is much on the minds of consumers and corporate strategists alike. [more]
S&P Rolls Out ERM Review: It's official: Standard & Poor's wants to talk to you about your enterprise risk management (ERM) program. [more]
Time to Tighten Your FCPA Compliance?: The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) has been a focus of enforcement efforts by the SEC and the U.S. [more]
Background Checks Ascend to the C-Suite: Companies are often hesitant to perform background checks on C-level employees and candidates -- at their own risk, according to Ken Springer, Corporate Resolutions president and founder and a former FBI agent. [more]
Can BI Help You Go Green?: Business intelligence software provider SAS Institute Inc is now offering a module that it claims will help companies measure and manage their environmental impact. [more]
Performance Management in the Public Sector: A new study on government and public sector performance management has found that many public sector organizations have performance initiatives in place, but the results are often hindered by poor management. [more]
Workforce Performance Management Market Expected to Reach $2.55 Billion by 2012: The market for workforce performance management (WPM) software and services is still growing, according to the latest forecast from market intelligence provider IDC. [more]
How To Deploy Operational BI: Operational business intelligence (BI) is different than traditional BI in its effort to make data analyses, trends, and plans more accessible to employees at all levels in an organization. [more]
A New Balance of Power at Financial Companies: The silver lining in the mortgage mess is that it may speed up the separation of the CEO and Chairman roles at financial companies. [more]
Balancing Risk and Performance: Managing enterprise risk still ranks low on finance executives' list of priorities. [more]
Consulting an Expert on GRC's Future: Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) has a bright future as a management tool, according to Miles Everson, leader of PricewaterhouseCoopers' advisory GRC practice. [more]
The Leadership Skills That Drive M&A Success: Managers, not markets, are the key to success in mergers and acquisitions. [more]
Study: Business Process Management Initiatives Still Immature: The technology-enabled discipline of business process management (BPM) has achieved rapid adoption among large enterprises in the past few years, but success rates have been less impressive. [more]
Subprime Crisis -- A Failure of Leadership?: The recent catastrophically bad decision-making at giant Wall Street firms comes down to one thing, according to Dr E Ted Prince: their leaders' lack of business acumen. [more]
XBRL Europe Established: In an effort to promote XBRL adoption and cohesion across the European region, XBRL International Inc has formed nonprofit XBRL Europe. [more]
Finance Execs Slow to Hedge Weather Risks: The overwhelming majority of senior finance and risk executives (82 percent) believe that climate change will force modifications to their business model, according to a survey by CME Group and Storm Exchange Inc. [more]
Companies Weakly Facing Employee Language Barriers: Approximately 15 percent of the US labor force is comprised of foreign-born workers, and employers are currently making little effort to overcome language limitations, according to a survey by The Conference Board. [more]
The Difference Between Scorecards and Dashboards: The terms scorecard and dashboard are often used synonymously, yet each tool provides a different set of capabilities, according to Gary Cokins, global product marketing manager for performance management solutions at SAS. [more]
Two Potholes on the Road to BPM: Although adopting and implementing a business performance management (BPM) solution is a wise decision for companies looking to improve performance and processes, there are still "potholes" along the road to successful utilization, according to Craig Schiff, president and CEO of BPM Partners. [more]
Forecasting for a Recession: As the economy slows it has become critical for companies to re-evaluate their profit forecasts. [more]