3 REASONS AUTOMATION WON’T REPLACE THE CFO

Chief Financial Officer also called CFO, has always been known as the main responsible for the management and control of financial risks, planning and reporting to all levels of higher management in the enterprise.

COMPANIES SPEND BIG TO LURE DATA AND AI SCIENTISTS

In Beijing, the Tencent Holdings-backed corporation is looking for a machine-learning specialist who can help advance its driverless delivery project, and an algorithm team leader who can optimize its supply, storage, and delivery systems.

BILLIONAIRE JOHN PAUL DEJORIA CONSIDERS 3 FACTORS BEFORE HE LAUNCHES A BUSINESS

John Paul DeJoria knows when he’s got his fingers on a product with serious potential. Before he co-founded Paul Mitchell hair products and Patron Tequila, he was homeless and collecting cans for money. Today, the 72-year-old serial entrepreneur is worth more than $3 billion.

CUT COSTS, GROW STRONGER

To reduce expenses for the long term and lead the way to recovery, start by taking a strategic view of your capabilities.

FROM ALCHEMY TO SCIENCE

The Lean Startup methodology reconceives a startup’s efforts as experiments that test its strategy to see which parts are brilliant and which are crazy. A true experiment follows the scientific method.

6 WAYS TO BUILD A CUSTOMER-CENTRIC CULTURE

Companies have been trying to adopt customer centricity for nearly 20 years now. But the CMO Council reports that “only 14 percent of marketers say that customer centricity is a hallmark of their companies, and only 11 percent believe their customers would agree with that characterization.”

FIVE WAYS TO SPOT A BUSINESS TREND THAT WILL LAST

It can be tempting to invest in the latest technology, marketing strategy or fashionable product line, but how do you know which ones will fade away and which ones will make your bottom line flourish?

INSIDE THE MIND OF THE CHRO

To better understand CHROs, Russell Reynolds turned to our proprietary database of psychometric profiles of nearly 9,000 executives, and compared information on current CHROs against more junior human resource professionals, as well as other C-suite executives.

HR CAN BOOST YOUR COMPANY'S EFFICIENCY

"Every day, I walk around and talk to people at all levels," she says. She listens a lot, too. "You have to understand the business well enough to have meaningful conversations."

CASE STUDY: LEGO

The story: For almost 70 years, Lego experienced steady growth. But in 1998 the company started losing money. By 2003, sales had dropped by 26 per cent and in 2004 by a further 20 per cent; these two years represented the biggest losses in Lego history.

THE 6 BIGGEST INVESTING MISTAKES

Burton G. Malkiel, Princeton economics professor and author of 'A Random Walk Down Wall Street,' and Charles D. Ellis, author of 'Winning the Loser's Game,' have teamed up to write 'The Elements of Investing.'