Managing the financial operations of a company is an extremely detailed task, and based on a recent survey of CFOs conducted by Pearson Partners International and the University of Texas at Dallas, the CFO's most important role is company strategy
Manufacturers devote considerable time and resources to managing their physical supply chain, but often it's their financial supply chain that needs the most attention....More
General Motors, Ford and Chrysler reported their best U.S. sales performances since 2007 Tuesday as analysts predicted the auto industry as a whole would also rack up its biggest month years....More
BlackBerry said profit in the fourth fiscal quarter ended March 2 was $98 million, compared with a loss of $125 million in the same period a year earlier....More
Managing the financial operations of a company is an extremely detailed task, and based on a recent survey of CFOs conducted by Pearson Partners International and the University of Texas at Dallas, the CFO's most important role is company strategy...More
The Purchasing Managers' Composite Index stood at a revised 47.9 in February, up from the initial reading of 47.3 but still well down from 48.6 in January and further away from the boom-bust line of 50....More
President Barack Obama is bound by law to initiate the automatic, indiscriminate cuts, which could wound the already fragile economy, cost a million jobs and harm military readiness, by 11.59 pm....More
Dialogue introducing new forecasting study on what the economy might look like in 2025 with a manufacturing resurgence. Video from the Aspen Institute....More
Manufacturing makes America strong. It makes families and communities strong. It provides national security. It gives us energy security. And for the 12 million men and women who work in manufacturing, it gives us pride....More
Christopher Barnatt of ExplainingComputers.com demonstrates how Big Data is transforming the business and industrial worlds and enabling new technologies and new breakthroughs that will help manufacturers work more efficiently than ever before....More
Beyond an initial novelty, 3D Printing could have a game-changing impact on consumer culture, copyright and patent law, and even the very concept of scarcity on which our economy is based....More
Christopher Barnatt of ExplainingTheFuture.com illustrates the inner workings of additive manufacturing machines and provides some real-life examples of how 3-D printing technology could dramatically change the manufacturing and retail industries as we know them today....More
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab break down the engineering and design challenges they faced during the Curiosity rover's complicated landing near the Martian equator on Aug. 5, 2012....More
