In 2012 the number of smartphone users exceeded 1 billion for the first time. This staggering figure should have advertisers licking their commercial lips at the prospect of being able to reach so large a pool of potential customers by advertising on the various applications used on mobile telephones worldwide...
It is close to impossible for any firm to reduce risk to zero, so knowing how and why to manage it in advance is crucial. The factors which determine why firms invest valuable time and money in enterprise risk management, be they ailing structures in need of a boost or flourishing firms wishing to plan ahead for the challenges that growth presents? Any firm embarking on the process of implementing enterprise risk management (or "ERM") practices is faced with a choice - the cost of such a procedure may not be welcomed by all but, on the other hand, integrating an internal control framework may reap considerable benefits in the long run...
Franchises are, by definition, more complex to govern than individual businesses but the advantages often outweigh this potential downside...
Si la crise financière mondiale soumet les entreprises et leurs collaborateurs à une pression croissante sur le plan de la productivité, les managers se sont toujours souciés de tirer le meilleur parti des personnes peu motivées au sein de leurs équipes...
