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3 Ways to Build Trust with Your Suppliers

CFO News Room

Communication is the efficient and effective transfer of meaning through words and actions to achieve and grow mutually beneficial outcomes. Strong and trusting relationships allow the parties to share risks and rewards, invest in each other’s capabilities, and collaborate to achieve common goals.

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Holding Onto Your Marketing Budget in a Downturn

CFO News Room

Leaders under economic pressure will likely prioritize short-term measures of growth, so there will be a bias toward marketing tactics with a clearer return on investment, such as search, social, and e-commerce. This doesn’t have to mean cutting overall investment; it could involve simply redeploying resources to their highest and best use.

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Pay rises are making a comeback in Asia Pacific

Future CFO

Companies in the region plan to give employees larger rises next year as they recover from the economic fallout of the pandemic and face mounting challenges attracting and retaining employees, according to the latest Salary Budget Planning Report by the company. Average salary increases projected at 3.7% for 2021 and 3.7%

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Essentials to successful finance transformation

Future CFO

Gartner surveys looking to 2022 show that CFOs, controllers and heads of financial planning and analysis (FP&A) are all focused on digital initiatives that will lay critical groundwork for an autonomous future. Cedric Assaouloff , digital and innovation lead at R&D finance pharmaceutical company F.

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CFO Pros on the Move: March

The Finance Weekly

In addition to this, he has also held prominent positions in investment banking at Barclays Capital, Lehman Brothers, and Bank of America. Richard Kraska | Infobip , Richard Kraska was appointed CFO of cloud communications company Infobip. Varma began her career in accounting at KPMG.

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The Quickly And Quietly Growing World Of Voice-Assisted Health And Wellness

PYMNTS

But as of now, Amazon’s Alexa smart assistant is integrating with MediSprout, a health communications startup, to launch a platform for scheduling appointments. Amazon, thus far, has offered no official comments on those plans. There have also been reports that the eCommerce giant is looking to get into pharmaceuticals.

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Don’t Bite The Phish Hook

PYMNTS

Brands have been eager to invest in digital transformation in recent years. After all, having a mobile presence enhances products and communication with both consumers and employees in fields such as manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and, of course, financial services. Invest in three things: people, process and tech.