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Keeping enterprise risk management top of mind with board members, senior executives and midlevel managers can be challenging, says Lynn Fountain, a management consultant and former chief audit executive. These steps can help companies manage different types of risks and drive performance.
Steve Mortimer, ACMA, CGMA, director of business consulting at Grant Thornton, talks about the changing role of the finance function and how finance directors can drive an effective performance management culture in their organization.
Companies that encourage collaboration boost employee productivity, but corporate culture frequently works against employees helping each other make company-wide accomplishments, research suggests. Find out four ways to overcome these hurdles and unlock employee performance.
Tony Chanmugam, FCMA, CGMA, became group finance director of British Telecom Group in 2008, during turbulent times for the company. Over the past six years, the group has undergone impressive growth. Chanmugam shares secrets of the transformation.
Aligning employee skills development to corporate performance targets and establishing quantitative targets makes training programmes more effective, a McKinsey survey suggests. Companies can accomplish this by following three steps.
A report by MHI, the international trade association for the supply chain and logistics industry, highlights the impact disruptors are likely to have in the near future, as well as three ways companies can remain competitive in the supply chain space.
Motivational and leadership skills were the most important factor for promoting professionals to management positions, according to a recent survey of marketing and advertising executives. Leadership and soft skills are also important in the finance realm.
About three-fifths of executives say long-term incentives motivate them to remain at their current organisation, according to a global survey by the Association of Executive Search Consultants. Most members of the C-suite reported receiving an increase in pay during the most recent fiscal year.
Effective performance management is becoming more important for local government organisations. New CGMA research suggests that finance needs to take a more strategic role in helping these organisations improve in this area. Stuart McGregor, ACMA, CGMA, highlights opportunities to drive better decision-making.
Mike Forde draws on 15 years’ experience in the English Premier League, including six years as director of football operations and executive club director at Chelsea FC, to provide tips on performing at the highest level.
Companies are wasting valuable resources because they do not monitor and track employee time as tightly as other resources, according to a recent survey. Find out how to cure eight costly time-management ills.
Germany’s mid-market family businesses, called the “Mittelstand”, are renowned throughout Europe for their resilience and innovative outlook. This article examines the value in learning from their approach.
Gary Cokins, the founder of advisory firm Analytics-Based Performance Management, explains how profit-margin-management techniques can help move your less-profitable customers to richer ground.
Performance management and business intelligence consultant Bernard Marr explains how companies can use data and analytics to improve decision-making around their most valuable business assets: talented employees.
Aidan Goddard, FCMA, CGMA, the CFO and COO of L’Occitane en Provence’s Asia-Pacific operations, explains how Big Data, when harnessed, can help a company cut costs and inform sales and marketing strategies, and how finance figures in.
Twenty years after the introduction of the Balanced Scorecard, performance management expert Bernard Marr explains the differences between companies that merely compile data and those that thrive from it.
