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What have been the major challenges that Shared Services and BPO practitioners have faced in 2008, and what are the predictions for both challenges and opportunities facing us in 2009? Phil Searle offers his perspective.
An exclusive extract from When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change by Mohamed...
Dr James Bellini gave the first plenary presentation at the 8th Annual Shared Services Week in Sitges, near Barcelona,...
Newell Rubbermaid's Peter Truijen and Graham Lyons believe large businesses can successfully move to shared services.
BT's Mandeep Hansra on EPM's value as a tool to analyse what is driving performance.
Laing O’Rourke’s Paul Collins on how teamwork has shaped one of the great success stories in UK construction.
Alan Calder of IT Governance has some advice on securing corporate data to avoid business, regulatory and brand damage.
Malcolm Cooper of National Grid on successful liquidity management.
Alexander Arcache and Peter Margetis of McKinsey discuss the merits of lean finance.
Enrico Camerinelli on the limitations of post-shipment trade finance.
Appointing external advisers can be tough – how do you make sure that strangers are going to be on your side?
Philip Fersht of AMR Research on the upwardly mobile BPO market.
John Hurrell and Paul Hopkin from AIRMIC on learning from lending firms' effective use of enterprise risk management.
Mass-market automakers had thin enough margins before the current market downturn as new car sales sink in the face of what Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn has described as "a perfect storm". Renault’s Chief Financial Officer Thierry Moulonguet explains to FDE that it is now most evident that the motor-making businesses that are going to survive best are those that have already put their procurement houses in order. Renault with its tie up with Nissan shares arguably the most far-reaching global procurement systems and strategies.
Elsewhere in the edition we look at short selling in a financial meltdown and feature exclusive interviews with the CFOs of Laing O’Rourke and Software AG.
