Management should begin control-related activities before an organisation contracts with a cloud-computing service provider (CSP), according to guidance provided in a recently released thought paper.
A substantial majority of employers are willing to allow workers to show up late at the office because bosses understand that employees are working away from their desks with the help of mobile technology, a recent survey shows.
Business leaders value social media in building workplace culture far more than their employees do, new research shows. Disconnects between executives and workers on the importance of financial performance and compensation—and the communication of core values—also were evident.
Business and IT providers say centralising functions in shared service centres is the most popular outsourcing approach. They also see an increase in the use of cloud computing.
Maximising operational efficiency alone is not enough to keep up with quickly changing global business trends. Successful companies also managed to transform their workforces. Those companies have eight traits in common, PwC and HfS Research found.
Beijing is making every effort to boost the country’s renewable energy production, but by 2020 China is expected to emit 43% more carbon dioxide from burning coal than in 2010, a special report of the Economist Intelligence Unit projects.
A rash of recent hacking incidents at high-profile organizations such as Sony Corp. contributed to a big jump in the percentage of large, publicly traded U.S. technology companies citing potential data breaches as a major risk to their businesses, a new BDO report says.
Most U.S. enterprises with 1,000 or more employees have bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies allowing employees to use their own smartphones and other mobile devices to access corporate computer networks, new research indicates. What should your company be doing to prepare for BYOD?
George Colony sees a technology future in which the web fades in prominence to something akin to AM radio, society maxes out on social media, younger consumers’ habits radically depart from those of even the closest generation, and mobile engagement with customers could mean life or death for business models.
Big-data analytics is the hot topic of 2012, with many predicting that the future success of organisations – big or small, public or private – will depend on their ability to capture, analyse and gain insights from it.
Technology and globalisation have changed the nature of work in advanced economies, and the result is that labour markets there are not likely to return to pre-recession levels of employment in the years to come.
Employers continue to move business services jobs from the US and Europe to low-cost countries, but research suggests that the number of IT, finance, human relations and procurement jobs that can be offshored is dwindling.
As a CFO, would you like to know how your peers feel about IFRS or what parts of the finance and accounting functions they outsource? “Benchmarking the Finance Function 2012”, a recently released research report, has some answers.
Feeling increasingly exposed to unpredictable events, companies worldwide updated their risk management strategy in 2011, a new survey finds. The changes frequently aim to challenge conventional thinking.
Security—both of computer networks and information—tops the technology agenda of US management accountants in 2012, according to a survey released by the American Institute of CPAs.
As Apple unveiled its new iPad to much fanfare last week, recent reports quietly illustrated how quickly the tablet market has grown, how fast mobile data traffic is expected to climb over the next few years – and how many companies consider mobile technologies for employees to be their most important IT investment.
Seventy-seven percent of senior finance professionals participating in a recent survey said they have gained greater responsibility for IT purchasing decisions in the last two years.
It’s been heralded as a major new development in networking and has sparked an increasingly intense rivalry with social media giants Facebook and Twitter. But is Google+ really a step ahead of its rivals?
Big deals by power players Google, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft contributed to a 41% jump in the total value of technology mergers and acquisitions in 2011, though economic uncertainty slowed activity in the fourth quarter and could do the same in 2012, Ernst & Young says in a recently released report.
Employees must be trained to implement data, and data must be made more decipherable and usable for organisations to make the best use of business analytics, a report says.
