Business Operations
Best practices. Company and competitive research. Best practices and benchmarking. Corporate governance and shareholder relations. Business ethics and leadership. Performance management guides. Small business resources.
Best practices and key metrics to core functions within the finance function. Solutions for more than 2,000 best practices in manufacturing. Credit & accounts receivable benchmarks. Software on best practices in manufacturing. Articles, white papers and resources on benchmarking.
Guides to ethical decision making. Corporate code of ethics examples, voluntary business codes, business values and morals, guide to ethical decision making.
Headline news, newsletters, etc. from business information news sources such as: Business Week. Business Journal. Yahoo! Business Headlines. Industry Week. Forbes. Fortune Magazine.
Guides to improve organizational performance. Measuring business results. How to get superior business performance and how to measure it. Analyzing gaps to prioritize plans for improvement. How CFOs determine which value based performance metric is best for their companies. Organizational effectiveness. Tutorial on business assessment and planning.
Research competitors and companies for investment purposes. Links and explanations of websites that provide online information on companies. The most common methods for acquiring information about competitors. Survey of US companies on the use of business intelligence. Patent search. FTC actions.
Fundraising manual, sample institute statutes, tax issues, financial planning resources for non-profits. Risk factors for nonprofits and EPLI coverage for nonprofits. Answers to liability questions related to nonprofits. Legal issues for nonprofits.
Articles on emerging issues facing industry and management. Abstracts of selected Gallup reports. Hot topics. Political news. Union positions. Database access to state policies versus US federal policies. Research results of American Management Association surveys of American business. US employment policies. Privitization. Legislative updates (federal & state) from the National Governor's Association on key issues.
Business supply management and purchasing reference sources
Collection of full text corporate governance codes and principles. Full text of the OECD principles of corporate governance. Current corporate governance codes and standards from various countries.