Are You Prepared for a Recovery?
At a recent CFO forum, Sonny Singh, senior vice president of Oracle’s Industries Business Unit, said companies need to make sure they are not so focused on short term gain that they forget about long term vision.

“Here at Oracle, we believe that a better strategy to achieve long-term cost savings is to focus on reducing costs of goods and services sold by improving supply chain efficiencies and reducing operational complexity,” says Singh. “Manufacturers, for example, should think about identifying and prioritizing supply chain technology initiatives that can drive quick ROI and have an immediate impact on profitability, cash flow, and risk but can also help companies sustain gross margin expansion over the long term.”

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Forbes: Oracle President Safra Catz One of the World’s Most Powerful Women
“…Forbes looked for women who run countries, big companies or influential nonprofits. Their rankings are a combination of two scores: visibility—by press mentions—and the size of the organization or country these women lead.”
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Four Quick Wins to Prepare for the Upturn Now
Four quick wins that can significantly cut your supply chain management costs with a minimum of upfront investments in new technologies.
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Deleware's Groundbreaking Approach to Technology
Instead of a more granular technology-driven strategy, Delaware’s IT team looked at its plans through the lens of how best to serve Delaware’s citizens.
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CFO Perspective: Interview With Rob Weisgarber, CFO Partner at Tatum
When it comes to midsize companies and their IT projects, planning is key, says Weisgarber. You can’t plan too much, he says, “Everyone with a stake has to be involved. You can’t just hand it over to two or three guys and say, 'Get it done and let me know when it's over'.”
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From @OracleRetail
“70% of executives surveyed expect business conditions to improve | RT @RetailEconomy”

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Enterprise 2.0 ‘Trust Agents’: Can We Bring a Human Touch to Our Virtual Selves?
Chris Brogan and Julien Smith, authors of Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust, studied people who “use today’s web tools to spread their influence faster, wider and deeper than a typical company’s PR or marking department might be capable of achieving, and with more genuine interest in people, too.” Profit magazine spoke to Brogan and Smith about how trust agents operate—and why every company should have one of its own.
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Mycustomer.com interviews Anthony Lye, SVP of Oracle CRM
Find out how social networking can help you connect with customers and regain vendor trust.
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Big Ideas: Trust
“According to the Institute for Corporate Productivity, a full 40 percent of low-performing companies feel their organizations do not nurture trust, while only 16 percent of respondents from high-performing companies feel the same. When employees feel they do not have an environment where they can trust others, especially the leadership, productivity and morale spiral downward. So it’s no surprise that those who report higher levels of trust also rate their companies as high-performing." — Claire Carradice, Service Excellence Operations Analyst, Siemens IT Solutions and Services.

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