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What are the 5 components of enterprise risk management?

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Enterprise risk management (ERM) gives organizations a comprehensive framework for identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks across your entire business. A properly implemented ERM program helps leadership make informed decisions and improve overall strategic decision making. At its core, ERM consists of five key components that work together to manage risk on an enterprise-wide level. Internal […]

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Are You Making These 5 Service-Level Agreement (SLA) Mistakes?

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If you work with service-level agreements, you could be making at least one of these five common mistakes: Undefined or poorly defined objectives and metrics in service-level agreements (SLAs). One of the most common mistakes when drafting an SLA is not having a clear understanding of what the agreement should achieve. Objectives and metrics should

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The Beginner’s Guide to Enterprise Risk Management and How it Can Help You Manage Your Business

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Introduction: What is Enterprise Risk Management? Enterprise risk management is the process of identifying, assessing, and managing risks to the organization. It is a systematic approach to identify the sources of risk that can affect an organization’s objectives. Risk management is a process which identifies and analyzes possible events, quantifies their probability and impact on

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The Beginner’s Guide to Procurement and How it Can Help Your Business

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Introduction: What is Procurement? Procurement is the process of obtaining goods, services, and supplies for an organization. It can be defined as the act of buying. The procurement process is often broken down into three main phases: Planning and Preparation, Solicitation and Award, and Contract Administration. In the planning and preparation phase, a buyer will

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The Beginner’s Guide to Corporate Compliance

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Introduction: What is Corporate Compliance? Compliance is the act of ensuring that a company follows the law. This includes all laws, regulations, and policies that are relevant to the company. Compliance is a broad concept that takes into account many different areas of business. It includes everything from ethical behavior to regulatory compliance. Compliance is

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The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Digital Banking and How it is Changing the Way We Bank

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Introduction: What is Digital Banking? Digital banking is a new way of banking that has been introduced to the market. It is a form of online or mobile banking. Digital banking allows customers to bank on their own terms and from their own devices. Some people may have heard about digital banking, but they don’t

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Commodities Trading Case Study: Understanding commodities derivatives

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Problem: This major European bank needed to get their commodities trading team up-to-speed on areas such as: Commodities derivatives Understanding their clients’ key business drivers Understanding the commodities markets Understanding REPOs Solution: We designed a tailored programme to help them achieve all of the above outcomes with a carefully selected instructor from our panel of

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Commodities Trading Case Study: Helping a Major Food Manufacturer in Asia

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Problem: The procurement team of a major food manufacturer saw how the prices of their main raw ingredients they regularly purchased fluctuated so much making their business highly vulnerable to large price fluctuations due to the commodities markets. Unfortunately, the client could not pass on these price increases/fluctuations to their customers, meaning the business had

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Being productive whether you’re an Introvert or Extrovert

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I’m a huge proponent of working to your natural preferences (I’m a natural Introvert). Despite the fact the world is majority catered to Extroverted people, the increasing awareness of how both types work differently is really nice to see. Here’s a nice article on how both types can create a more productive environment whicever type

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Best Certification Course for Procurement Professionals

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Procurement is one of the hottest trending job and career I’ve seen in the last few years. It’s a business function that is becoming highly specialized and seen as a value-added function to more and more enterprises. However, despite conventional thinking the most established or the most common procurement certification courses may not be the

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If you’re a Consultant, Coach or Trainer, don’t produce another piece of content until you read this…

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…the “in-thing” to do these days is content marketing. Trying to produce an endless stream of content (blog posts, articles, tweets, videos, article sharing, etc) in the hopes that potentially a prospective client see this content and does business with you. Reality is keeping up this kind of content production is tedious work. I call

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What the May Day protests tell us about EU Policy Errors and Elusive Recovery

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Dr. Skrekas, one of our expert trainers on International Business Law, is interviewed for Russia Today about the protests taking place across Europe on the International Labor Day, May 1. The discussion analyzes the devastating policy mistakes by the EU and the long term period required for recovery.

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The Seven Budgeting Habits of Highly Effective World-Class Companies

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As the world slowly recovers from a tremendous financial and economic shock (still very much being felt around the globe), market volatility is a major factor affecting companies as they attempt to improve their financial planning, budgeting and forecasting processes. So what better way to improve these financial fundamentals than to look at the seven

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Asset & Liability Management: 10 Challenges & Key Drivers Today

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Asset & Liability Management (ALM) is the process for managing financial performance by identifying, measuring and managing the returns on risk for off and on balance sheet exposures.  Here are the top 10 challenges and their key drivers in Asset & Liability Management today. 1. Ensuring a robust ALCO process: the ALCO process must include

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