Several years ago, I taught a graduate-level course on museum fundraising, the bulk of which focused on direct marketing fundraising. With direct marketing being so much about numbers — after all, you ...

To understand your business's financial health, you need numbers that give you a clear picture while guiding your next moves. But how do you choose which key performance indicators (KPIs) matter to ...

Effectively using data has become increasingly important in 21st century business. The ever-increasing capabilities of desktop and laptop computers along with radically decreasing data storage costs ...

The speaker had presented a method, based on international standards, to connect data among his brewing company’s SAP enterprise planning system and batch control systems. The real-time link improved ...

Editor’s Note: Suzanne Greene is Manager of the Sustainable Supply Chains initiative at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics. Driven by increasing volumes of goods moving through supply ...

The first aspect of the guidance reminds companies of the fundamental principle that KPIs should be included in MD&A. MD&A is supposed to provide a snapshot of a company through the eyes of management ...