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Streamlining supply chain management: Strategies for the future

IBM Big Data Hub

In today’s complex global business environment, effective supply chain management (SCM) is crucial for maintaining a competitive advantage. Here’s how companies are using different strategies to address supply chain management and meet their business goals.

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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

CIO Business Intelligence

Here are three strategies for getting it done. When this happens, corporate risk is heightened as preemptive projects get delayed — sometimes for indefinite periods of time. CIOs can change this thinking by incorporating preemptive projects like disaster recovery into their corporate risk management strategies.

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Best Tax KPIs and Metric Examples for 2021 Reporting

Jet Global

A Tax Key Performance Indicator (KPI) or metric is a clearly defined quantifiable measure that an organization, or business, uses to measure the success of its Tax Function over time. Since every organization has its own manner of operation, the KPIs or metrics used for tax will vary from one organization to another.

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Examples of sustainability in business

IBM Big Data Hub

One common corporate sustainability strategy is known as the triple bottom line. A play on the business term “the bottom line,” otherwise referred to as profit, the triple bottom line adds two more players to the mix of modern-day business strategy. Sustainability in business and IBM Sustainable companies start from within.

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4 strategic sourcing use cases to strengthen your supply chain

IBM Big Data Hub

Where tactical sourcing is a short-term strategy, strategic sourcing is for long-term business goals. 2 For instance, through sustainable strategic sourcing, companies consider questions like: Do manufacturing plants minimize waste and effectively use resources?

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How to Pitch a Sustainable Value Chain to Your C-Suite

CIO Business Intelligence

All too often, executives look at value chains exclusively through the lens of risk management and economic value, not realizing that sustainability can—and should—also be a part of the equation. Put asustainable value chain plan in place and track metrics with supply chain management systems. Click here to learn more.

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Why IT leaders are putting more business spin on security spend

CIO Business Intelligence

Gartner projects that spending on information security and risk management products and services will grow 11.3% To better focus security spend, some chief information security officers (CISOs) are shifting their risk assessments from IT systems to the data, applications, and processes that keep the business going.

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