The finance function is well-positioned to take the lead in helping businesses harness the power of business intelligence. Donny Shimamoto, CPA/CITP, CGMA, breaks down the reasons finance should jump at the chance to learn more about business intelligence.
Keeping measures simple and highly meaningful to both donors and those in the local community can make all the difference in motivating stakeholders toward a shared vision of healthy lives and livelihoods.
Organisations are building momentum for the use of Big Data by integrating data analytics into their strategy in small projects that deliver substantial results, according a new report.
Just because it’s midnight doesn’t mean your boss expects you to stop working. More than a third of employees report getting work-related emails after work hours.
Finance teams at large multinational companies can expect more and increasingly sophisticated tasks to come their way. The majority of those teams will have to perform those tasks with the same or fewer resources.
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.
As hacking gets more complex, businesses must do more to protect critical systems. IT security expert Mike Foster offers strategies for businesses to keep out cybercriminals.
This article looks at the results of the 2013 North America TTI survey and the implications for public accounting firms, businesses and other organisations.
International patent filings rose a robust 6.6% in 2012, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization. It’s the third consecutive year the number of filings has risen, following a 4.8% decline at the height of the global debt crisis in 2009.
While the amount of data that companies collect can be good for business, the numbers themselves are not a guarantee of success. Human expertise is needed to parse the data.
Brazil, Russia, India and China are losing some of their attractiveness, and multinational companies have started to look for the next global growth hot spots, a global Ernst & Young survey suggests. Find out how selecting new markets has changed.
Tech CFOs expect M&A activity to pick up this year, fueled by deals in the cloud-computing sector, a BDO survey says. Deals are expected to be driven in large part by access to technology assets and intellectual property.
Threats that keep top experts and high-level leaders up at night are the risks that are beyond any one company or even one nation to handle. A report from the 2013 World Economic Forum lists the most likely ones with the biggest damage potential.
A majority of US chief information officers say their companies aren’t harvesting information on customers, and even those that are doing so have not necessarily turned big data into business insight. A Robert Half survey of 1,400 CIOs says that talent constraints limited companies’ ability to access and analyse business data.
Emerging, relentless cybersecurity threats pose a significant danger to organizations that are unprepared to detect and deter them, according to a new global survey. Known as advanced persistent threats, these attacks are not easily deterred by traditional controls.
The race to dominate the market for smartphone operating systems became even more of a two-vendor competition in the fourth quarter of 2012, as Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS combined to control more than 90% of the market, leaving Microsoft’s Windows and BlackBerry hoping that their new smartphone releases can get them back on the lead lap.
