A risk management freebie for bizheads

A quality white paper from a respected publisher, perfect to pass on to those out there who are serious about company risk management. Click through, sign up (as always round here 100% free, no personal card numbers asked for or required, just a simple form to fill in) and get yours today. Brought to you with a smile by IKN WeekendOffers™.

Receive Your Complimentary White Paper NOW! "Managing Risk in Perilous Times. Practical Steps to Accelerate Recovery" Examine lessons learned from the current financial crisis in this EIU white paper. The white paper proposes ten practical lessons that could help address perceived weaknesses in risk identification, assessment, and management. Offered Free by: SAP Other Resources from: SAP

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Receive Your Complimentary White Paper NOW! "Managing Cash Flow in Times of Crisis" Discover specific actions companies can take to ensure high cash-flow velocity and vital liquidity. Get answers to these key questions: How can I protect the health of my commercial cash flows? How can I gain better visibility into sources and uses of cash? And how can I increase control over my global cash balances? Offered Free by: SAP Other Resources from: SAP Tags: more ...

Weekend Freestuff

We're still out there battling hard to bring you quality free offers. Check out the blurbs on these two offers and click through to request the one that takes your fancy.

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"Exploiting Behavioral Analytics Throughout Internet Sites"

Learn how you can get new visitors, keep current traffic, and grow ad and transaction revenues.

Web operators need more than simple data tagging and reporting. Standard web analytics gives you a good understanding of page views, click through, and bounce rates, but increasing competition for eyeballs is forcing you to dig deeper into visitor behavior. To increase web traffic and monetization, you need to understand how visitors interact with your website. This new white paper explains behavioral analytics, explores key applications, and provides a detailed case study showing you how behavioral analytics can answer questions such as:

• What products and content are customers likely to look at next?
• Which combination of content makes transactions more likely?
• Which customers will return and why?
• What website factors make customers more likely to purchase?

Learn how behavioral analytics can take your existing online data and turn it into valuable visitor insights!

Offered Free by: Quantivo

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Receive Your Complimentary "Financial Services Executive Kit NOW!"

Learn how to manage the secure exchange of financial information between organizations, enable integration of all business processes and improve financial value chain visibility.

You're under pressure from commoditization, globalization, and increased regulatory and compliance directives; customers are more demanding about the kind and quality of service they receive; existing legacy systems are creating daunting and complex need for integration. Sterling Commerce enables you to cut through these overwhelming complexities, simplify IT environments, and drive profitable growth on a global scale.

Your Financial Services Executive Kit includes:

• Payments Transformation: One step at a time - Tower Group
• Helping Financial Institutions Manage Operational - Risk White Paper
• Sterling Multi-Enterprise Finance Gateway: Helping financial services organizations meet the needs of their corporate business customers
• BNP Paribas case study - Russell Investment Group case study

Offered Free by: Sterling Commerce

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A free offer for European readers

Hi over there you European businesspeople types, hope you're having a good day. Here's a free offer for you to make yourself the shining star of your company and win serious brownie points with your bosses, avoid redundancy and get that promotion.

Request your free copy (not joking...it really is free) of this very useful report published by those nice people at Adobe by clicking right here. Now for the details:

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"Business Process Efficiency: Honing a Competitive Edge"

Explore how to improve margins, accelerate processing, eliminate errors, and increase customer satisfaction.

In today’s hypercompetitive market, financial services companies must learn how to produce services faster, cheaper, and better and improve profit margins in the face of mounting competition and other economic pressures. Increasing business process efficiency is the best way to improve margins and allow more flexibility in pricing. This paper explores how financial institutions are gaining a competitive edge by focusing on process efficiency for greater customer satisfaction and retention.

Geographic Eligibility: Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, United Kingdom

Offered by: Adobe

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Quality free report for finance personnel

This post offers a free white paper report entitled "Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function" that is aimed at CFOs, company financial team members and anyone involved with the running of day-to-day company finances.

It's not a report for everyone, but those in the field in question will find it essential reading to stay ahead of the game. The offer is open for residents of the USA and Canada. See the blurb below for more details and request your free copy by clicking the link here.

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Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function

Many CFOs and the finance organizations they lead have started to take on new strategic roles within the enterprise.

Their goal is to enforce stricter control processes to ensure legal and regulatory compliance, offer strategic insights into the internal and external business environment, and connect the business strategy with daily operations through performance tracking. To assess the trends in the finance function and identify best practices, APQC, an internationally recognized nonprofit organization that provides best practice research, metrics, measures, has evaluated the performance of more than 130 finance organizations. This SAP Insight shares the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research.

Publisher: SAP

Freestuff redux

Here's the free offer first posted Friday that all you financial professionals sitting in the USA or Canada should grab with both hands.

Going by the title "Why Professional Services Organizations Need Improved Financial and Resource Management" and published by Consulting Magazine in association with Microsoft Dynamics, this white paper addresses the financial and resource management pain points that Professional Services Organizations (PSOs) currently face.

It focuses on the benchmarks that PSOs can use to improve their management capabilities and how business applications can help PSOs achieve their goals, including streamlining their businesses, increasing operating margins, and meeting the challenges posed by today's fast-paced global marketplace.

So request your copy today by clicking on this link. Help yourself to this totally free report and help keep this humble corner of cyberspace on the air at the same time. For every copy sent they pay me a small commish, so it's free for you and good for me.

The Friday Financial Freebie

Here's a free offer to end the working week that all you financial professionals sitting in the USA or Canada should grab with both hands (and along the way help IKN generate a penny or two of commission for every report that gets sent out).

Going by the title "Why Professional Services Organizations Need Improved Financial and Resource Management" and published by Consulting Magazine in association with Microsoft Dynamics, this white paper addresses the financial and resource management pain points that Professional Services Organizations (PSOs) currently face.

It focuses on the benchmarks that PSOs can use to improve their management capabilities and how business applications can help PSOs achieve their goals, including streamlining their businesses, increasing operating margins, and meeting the challenges posed by today's fast-paced global marketplace.

So request your copy today by clicking on this link. Help yourself to this totally free report and help keep this humble corner of cyberspace on the air at the same time. For every copy sent they pay me a buck fifty approx, so it's free for you and good for me. Thanks in advance

A free white paper for these recessionary days

As we're closing in on Christmas here's a free present from IKN to you, dear reader. Check out the blurb underneath and get your copy of this totally free, gratis, for nothing white paper entitled "Talent Management in a Down Economy".

Free. A price that works for me. Here's the link to get your copy.

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"Talent Management in a Down Economy"

Learn how to fuel higher levels of business performance by developing, redeploying and retaining top talent.

This white paper explores the relationship between talent management strategies, processes and practices, and the advantages that can be gained by organizations coping with an economic downturn. Learn why talent management is the key issue for businesses worldwide and remains a central strategy in any economic season.

Geographic Eligibility: USA, Canada

Publisher: Taleo

Click here to apply

Free White Paper: 10 secrets to recession-proof your business

Here's a totally free, gratis and for nothing report you can pick up that will help you get through the rough patch that's about to hit the real economy. Get your free report, "10 Secrets to Recession-Proof Your Business" by clicking this link.

Take advantage of this free offer and be ready for the downturn. Here's the report blurb to give you a better idea of its contents. USA and Canada residents only.

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"10 Secrets to Recession-Proof Your Business"

Discover ten strategies smart companies deploy to recession-proof their business, including how to curb spending, cut non-payroll costs, and use the downturn to your advantage.

When the economic outlook is good, most executives focus on growing sales. It's only natural. But when the economy slows and times get tough, the focus inevitably shifts. Most executives turn inward to reassess business operations, as they face hard choices on how to manage the company.

As businesses struggle to survive a downturn, leaders generally behave in one of three ways:

• "the ostrich" - preserve the status quo, and just hope for the best
• "the bull in the china shop" - blindly cut expenses across the board
• "the fox" - use the downturn to make your business more effective so when growth returns you'll be in a stronger competitive position

Coupa encourages leaders to behave "like a fox." Instead of viewing a recession through fearful eyes, use it as a means to pounce on emerging trends – and to get lean, mean, and in position to crush your competition as economic conditions improve.

Geographic Eligibility: USA, Canada

Publisher: Coupa Software Incorporated

Apply for your free copy here

Free White Paper: Working Together in the New World of Work

Microsoft (no less) has written a brand new white paper on how to make the most of the new world of work. I'll leave you with the description below to tell you more.

This is a free offer for IKN readers, so I hope you take advantage of it. Please note this offer is only open to residents of the USA. Here's the link to get your copy.

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"Microsoft Communication and Collaboration: Working Together in the New World of Work"

Learn how the Microsoft® communication and collaboration platform can help you turn the new world of work into a new world of opportunity.

In the new world of work, the focus is on the work, not the where. Individuals come together to solve problems, develop plans, and embrace opportunities. But coming together no longer requires or even implies that individuals are sitting in the same room or even in the same country.

In the new world of work, the physical and logical barriers that once defined a team or workgroup are dissolving. Microsoft is making it easier than ever before to communicate and collaborate via pervasive, contextual capabilities. Three areas where Microsoft has made deep investments to facilitate communication and collaboration are:

• Delivering unified communications
• Empowering global teams with collaborative workspaces
• Connecting people, process, and information

Geographic Eligibility: USA

Publisher: Microsoft Corporation