Andrew Hiles — on QFinance.com — reminds us that no organization is immune from disaster. Wise executives have long known the importance of risk and impact assessment and the need for contingency planning. With today’s threats, this has never been more important.

This article by Sam Hananel shows that, after a decade-long look at hundreds of California work sites, researchers found that 9.4% of those companies reduced their injury claims with no discernible impact on profits.

On her site, Supply Chain Shaman, Lora Cecere notes that the industry has spent thirty years developing forecasting processes that are largely not used or trusted by the organizations they serve. In her blog, she reflects on the common errors of demand planning.

In this article from Stanford Business Magazine Online, Kathleen O’Toole describes how a Stanford-World Bank field experiment in Indian textile plants found the most compelling evidence to date that management matters.

This article, published in Knowledge@Wharton details how — even before the recent global downturn — a two-speed world was emerging. Its hallmarks: a slow rate of growth and high per capita income in developed regions such as Europe and North America, and far faster growth in emerging economies with low per capita income, such as China, India, and Brazil ...

This webcast addresses one of the fundamental challenges facing all businesses: How can we transform our decisions into successful long-term planning when we do not know what is going to happen down the road? In this session, Mark Hollingworth will provide key insights, techniques, and models that will help you better prepare for the future.

This webcast introduces new approaches to using strategic management models and tools throughout your decision-making process. These approaches will allow you to develop a more complete understanding of the issues facing your organization, and help you feel more comfortable in making more thorough and effective strategic decisions.

This webcast will help develop effective Controllers who stand out from the crowd because they are seen as adding value to the organization they work for. You'll learn how to provide insight to operations about accounting controls, costs, analytics, and opportunities for continual improvement.

The second of this two-part webcast outlines how important inter-personal skills will be to an effective senior financial manager, and how these need to be developed. Relationship skills often become the make or break capabilities for success in the CFO job. How much technical work is involved versus using the "soft skill" necessary in effectively working with other people?

Association events and seminars bring CGAs, students and other professionals together for valuable learning and networking. The Events pages present detailed descriptions of PD opportunities and special events around Alberta as well ...