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Chief Procurement Officer Search: Securing Your Supply Chain Leadership

N2Growth Blog

It helps build strong relationships with suppliers, enabling organizations to negotiate favorable terms and establish strategic partnerships for long-term success. Within the organization, new courses charted by the CEO or Board may have broad implications for effective procurement, and leadership needs to be prepared to respond agilely.

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Tyranny of Metrics

Deming Institute

Muller’s The Tyranny of Metrics (2018) is a book that Dr. Deming would have surely appreciated. This well-researched book gives an ever timely overview of the history and drivers behind the misuse of metrics that dominate organizational life in America and around the world. Muller talks about what he has experienced first hand.

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8 Certifications Worth Pursuing in 2024

Strategy Driven

Covering areas such as auditing, financial accounting, and taxation, the CPA credential opens doors to a myriad of career opportunities, from public accounting firms to corporate finance roles. CMAs often become instrumental in strategic planning, helping organizations achieve their goals by providing valuable financial insights.

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Learn MBA Skills In 12 Weeks

Eric Jacobson

That core consists of working through and with other people to create value while using financial concepts and metrics to maximize the value created for all company stakeholders. For our book, forming a reading group with professional peers would be especially helpful, inside or outside the organization in which you work.

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CFO’s Guide to Building an HR Team with Limited Time, Budget and Resources

A framework for how you’ll structure and organize your team and what you’ll focus on. Based on 30 years of working with HR and finance leaders—along with lots of interviews and research— we’ve developed this guide that highlights what it takes to build a high-functioning HR team. The responsibilities and key metrics for success.

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Why HR Gets a Bad Name

Let's Grow Leaders

” Now before I completely tick off the entire SHRM organization, please know I’m on your side. I spent the next decade keeping my HR and Finance partners as close as possible. Of course this is a real head scratcher that can damage the credibility of the entire HR organization. Disconnected Metrics.

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7 Strategies for Reducing Operational Management Risk

Strategy Driven

Verdantix asked them about risk management to learn more about ORM strategies within their organization and their perception of these strategies. The leaders at the top of the organization must be fully behind the operational risk management program for it to be effective. Any person within an organization can make a risk decision.