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8 Leading Areas for Change In Risk Management/Analysis In The Coming Years

Strategy Driven

Managers and people in higher positions, in general, are always looking for ways to improve bottom-line operations and minimize the risks. Risk management helps them stay on top of the market challenges and trends in the relevant industry. However, markets and industries are dynamic concepts. About the Author.

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Deflation Will Take the Majority by Surprise

Coaching Tip

This article quotes a market firm''s chief economist, "Weakness remains broad-based, with Germany stagnating, France contracting steeply and the rest of the region also clearly entrenched in an ongoing downturn of worrying severity.". citizens alike should prepare for the most devastating of all financial trends -- deflation.

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The Scope of Supply Chain Management in the Corporate Sector

Strategy Driven

Supply chain management has immense potential to enhance business operations, improve productivity, and increase a business’s agility to changing market trends and customer demand. Increased communication between these parties is vital for a business to increase market agility and reduce production and dispersal delays.

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The Status Quo Is Risky, Too

Harvard Business Review

Mine societal, economic, political, regulatory, and technological trends to identify any external changes that necessitate a shift in your strategy. Then develop a risk profile for your current strategy using the same framework you’re using to assess your new strategic options.

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Can Your C-Suite Handle Big Data?

Harvard Business Review

Adding a chief marketing officer (CMO) became crucial as new channels and media raised the complexity of brand building, while Chief strategy officers (CSOs) joined top teams to help grapple with complex and fast-changing global markets. The hunt for such talent is taking place in the world’s hottest market for advanced skills.

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How CMOs and CROs Can Be Allies

Harvard Business Review

Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and Chief Risk Officers (CROs) may seem to have little in common. But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. Take a customer–life cycle approach.

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Why Sit on All that Cash? Firms Uncertain on Cost of Capital

Harvard Business Review

This is the key finding of the Current Trends in Estimating and Applying the Cost of Capital research released this week by the Association for Financial Professionals, a trade group of 16,000 corporate treasury and finance practitioners. Book vs. Market Weighting Factors Used for Debt and Equity in Calculation of WACC. .