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Complimentary Resource – The CFO’s Cheat Sheet to Compensation Risk & Reward

Strategy Driven

The CFO’s Cheat Sheet to Compensation Risk & Reward. This 4-page guide outlines 7 ways that automated compensation management software improves your ROI: Streamlined data and workflow processes. Click here for more information on The CFO’s Cheat Sheet to Compensation Risk & Reward.

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How the CFO and General Counsel Can Partner More Effectively

Harvard Business Review

Commentators and researchers have focused on the crucial role of the CEO in leading effective corporate action to promote high performance, high integrity , and sound risk management. This critical alliance needs and deserves much greater analysis and application.

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"I'd Like My Life Back" -- a lesson for CEOs in building an organization that listens to warnings

Great Leadership By Dan

Auditing/monitoring and risk assessment – risk assessment is the "radar screen" of threats to your company. How are risk assessment, and more specifically -- enterprise risk management ("ERM") implemented in your organization? How and when are audits performed that "kick the tires" on key activities?

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Leading in a World of Resource Constraints and Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

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How to Have the IT Risk Conversation

Harvard Business Review

Surprisingly, many people say it was "how to have the IT risk conversation.". As one CFO told me, the phrase "IT Risk" contains two dirty words. The word risk makes him feel uncomfortable. They consider agility as well as access risks. Difficult conversations IT management Risk management'

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Case Study: How to Integrate an Acquired Brand

Harvard Business Review

Henry was the senior vice president of operations. I''ve said it before, and I''ll say it again: The best path forward is to keep VillageCar separate — the operations, the branding, everything.". Later that afternoon Annabel Howard, Beacon''s CFO and Henry''s boss, leaned back in her chair. "I''m A Third Opinion.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business Review

First, directors face a real challenge in making sure that protection and alignment of key governance and risk management issues doesn’t crowd out equally important dialogue around strategy and operations.