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Management accounting and control: lessons for and from the world's tiniest businesses 

Gilda makes tortillas at her home--and sells them there. Some say they are the best tortillas in the area. She cooks early in the day, but by late...

Creating growth from effective opportunity risk management: by focusing on the downside of risk, companies can overlook opportunities that provide significant possibilities for organizational innovation and new competitive advantage 

When General Electric (GE) launched Ecomagination, its commitment to addressing environmental challenges, it recognized an opportunity where many...

Managing customer profitability: determine which customers are most valuable to your organization. 

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY * The customer value management cycle presents a comprehensive model for measuring and managing...

In Microfinance, Clients Must Come First 

How to measure and improve the value of IT: a balanced scorecard geared toward information technology issues can help you start the process 

Senior corporate and financial managers have often been frustrated when submitting budget requests for new information technology projects. Though...

Implementing successful e-commerce initiatives: it's time to reexamine your investment and figure out how to make it more profitable 

E-COMMERCE can be one of the most important value-creating activities a business can pursue. The key is in its implementation. Unfortunately,...

Measuring the payoffs of IT investments: many companies have spent a lot of time and money implementing sophisticated IT systems without a model in place to measure the systems' return on investment. CMA Canada and the AICPA aim to remedy that with a new 

In too many organizations, decision makers overlook economic rationality in justifying information technology expenditures and instead acquire the...

How does your board rate? now you can use a balanced scorecard to measure and improve corporate board performance 

Though in recent years more attention has focused on improving corporate performance measurement by using strategic management systems such as the...

Making the business case for sustainability: linking social and environmental actions to financial performance. 

With growing sensitivity toward social issues, companies are increasingly expected to take greater responsibility for making sustainable...

Organizing Your Business for the Internet Evolution 

WHICH PATH TO SUCCESS HAS YOUR COMPANY CHOSEN? WHICH PATH TO SUCCESS HAS YOUR COMPANY CHOSEN? If you don't steal business from your own...