CSA changes mind over internal audit matter.(News and
views)
On March 10, 2006, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA)
issued a notice on the status of their deliberations on proposed
internal control reporting requirements. Having considered the . . .
Leadership for results.
Leadership is a critical factor in the success of any organization.
Effective leadership enables the effective implementation of strategy,
and a company can't survive without this.
[ILLUSTRATION . . .
The Four Pillars of High Performance.(Brief article)(Book
review)
Companies rise and companies fall. It's only rare success
stories that remain robust for many years. The Four Pillars of High
Performance: How robust organizations achieve extraordinary results . . .
Alignment.(Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create
Corporate Synergies)(Brief article)(Book review)
Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton first made a serious splash in
the management strategy community with an article entitled "The
Balanced Scorecard: Measures that drive performance." Since . . .
Alignment.(from the editor)(Editorial)
Every year, a new term surfaces to become a rallying cry for
businesses, for a few months at least. Integration, collaboration,
transparency--each has had its vogue. And while none of these have . . .
Worldwide inroads: Canadian companies generate business and
promote their expertise, technology and goodwill in the world's
trou
Tim Horton's may be Canada's most high-profile export to
Afghanistan. But outside of the coffee and Timbits served at the
Canadian military's Kandahar Airfield, the country is strictly off
limits . . .
Taking the scorecard deeper: The newest book by Kaplan and Norton
demonstrates how organizations can cascade the Balanced Scorec
A review of Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create
Corporate Synergies, by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton. Published
by Harvard Business School Press, 2006.
Since its . . .
Reaping a good harvest: CMA Kevin Blucke has taken one of
Canada's largest organic vineyards and given it a big management
overh
The British Columbia wine industry has come into its own in the
last few years. Wines from the Okanagan Valley, and elsewhere in the
province, have been garnering awards internationally, and North . . .
Risk and the Balanced Scorecard: organizations around the globe
need to step up their risk management initiatives. The Balanced
An effective risk management program can no longer be seen as a
'nice-to-have' for an organization. There are simply too many
threats today. Yet it has only been in the past couple of years . . .
Alignment: do your processes really line up? When a Toronto-based
manufacturer wanted to implement a new ERP system, it turned o
The implementation of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system
creates an opportunity to re-engineer an organization's key
business processes. The concept of implementing ERP systems to . . .
Beyond process improvement: the pathway to process-based
management: the quality movement, which gained much momentum in the
mid
Every organization, whether it is large, medium or small, public or
private, profit-driven or not-for-profit all have one thing in
common--their operation requires processes. The ability of an . . .
Show me your talent: evaluating candidates through
role-playing.
Most people treat an interview as a reality game, in which the
employer asks questions and the candidate gives answers. Seasoned
candidates hide behind their interview game face and revise or . . .
Impact of Basel II sinking in.(News and views)
Data management issues are creating unique and unexpected
challenges for Canadian banks, as national and global financial
institutions alike focus on meeting the requirements of Basel II, . . .
Storage portability.(HIGH TECH)
If you've been working with the same computer system for any
length of time, finding enough backup storage inevitably becomes a
challenge. Maxtor OneTouch III Mini Edition is an attempt to . . .
Forces reshaping capital markets: middlemen will feel the
squeeze.(Brief article)
Insiders are forecasting a fully connected and transformed
financial markets industry by 2015, as three rapidly emerging forces
combine to create a rate of change unseen since the 1970s. And, in . . .
New software.(News and views)
Visit www.managementmag.com for more information on the following
software and applications packages:
* Oracle Secure Backup
* SAP and Microsoft's Duet . . .
Managing the labour shortage: where to start?
While most of Canada's C-suite is well aware of escalating
labour shortage implications, many are still struggling with where to
start managing the issues amidst a number of misconceptions and . . .
Canada's pension crisis deepens.(News and views)
Sixty-one per cent of Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) say the
pension crisis in Canada is widespread and likely to persist beyond the
next few years, a dramatic increase compared to just two years . . .
Fortune 500 boards encourage three- to five-year CEO
succession.(News and views)
Directors on boards of Fortune 500 companies with successful CEO
succession records have reportedly increased the rigor of the succession
process and agree on 10 steps essential to long-term . . .
Profiting the Crown: National Business Book Award winner.(Matthew
J. Bellamy)(Brief article)
This year's National Business Book Award winner is Matthew J.
Bellamy for his book Profiting the Crown: Canada's Polymer
Corporation, 1942-1990 published by McGill-Queen's University
Press. The . . .
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