Has risk management been sidelined as firms refocus on profits and growth?
Has the financial services industry reached a comfort zone, placing it in jeopardy for another possible crisis? Are today’s risk management practices and reporting in tune with the existing risk culture and organizational expectations?
Seven marketing operations best practices
Chetan Saiya, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Assetlink
With the proliferation of media channels, microsegmentation of customers and increased globalisation, marketing is becoming more complex. This article lists seven best practices that marketing executives can use to significantly reduce the gap between expectations and results, and increase the returns from marketing spending.
Finders keepers
When you compare two big box stores (or any two comparable organizations in the same industry, for that matter), what gives one the edge over the other? It's not labor costs. Those are comparable. It isn't, for the most part, the cost of goods. Both have wrung all the bloat from their supply chains. Innovation and customer service? Perhaps. But what drives the innovation and customer service? Analytics. More than any other business process today, analytics is the differentiator that separates successful businesses in all industries from their less successful counterparts.
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