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Managing the tax function in today's complex and changing environment requires more than filing returns and dealing with audits. Tax management must achieve the company's tax savings and compliance objectives [...]

Logistics should be an integral part of any corporate strategy. This was the consensus among 95% of CEOs of major corporations in recent surveys. According to the surveys, however, only some one-third of US corporations have made supply chain management a part of their business strategy. American Warehouse Assn. Pres. Mike Jenkins said firms should not look at logistics as an added cost, but as an opportunity for taking cost out of the supply chain and as a tool to enhance competitive advantage.

As convergence meets the real world, corporations are looking for new ways to meet their growing telecommunications and information technology needs. Increasingly, says a new report, they're integrating the two […]

New York Business-spending patterns for PC products and services have changed significantly during the past several years, according to survey data from CRN/The Gallup Organization Inc. The data indicate that […]

Natick, MA-based R. Michael Donovan Inc. surveyed 400 medium-sized corporations. Results showed that firms generally diverge between spoken or written corporate policy and actual plan implementation. More than 70% of officials indicated corporate focus on customer satisfaction, yet majority of this particular group indicated that they delegated such tasks and have not followed up on results., Do words and deeds clash in the executive suites of U.S. companies? That's what appears from a study of 400 midsized manufacturing companies by international consultants R. Michael Donovan, Inc. [...]

Distributed database issues play only a minor role in shaping the Fortune 1000's overall database direction, according to a survey of 50 companies recently released by Forrester Research Inc., of […]

Purchasing Manager Mark Winter remembers the days when engineers at Red Lion Controls in York, PA, would design industrial-control equipment, specify parts and suppliers, and then 'throw the design over […]

CHICAGO -- Downsizing, rightsizing, reengineering, restructuring. Whatever the term, companies are increasingly opting to retool their information systems amid tightening budgets and uncertain economic conditions. The average number of so-called […]

A recent Business Research Group survey of 400 MIS executives and network administrators at Fortune 500 and mid-sized companies indicates increasing interest in enterprise network-management systems. Over the next two […]

In a recession-hit computer industry, the LAN continues to shine as a major growth area. But a new survey suggests that managers may not be equipped to deal with future […]

This is 1992. At the end of this year there will be a single European market, in theory at least. There will be big changes in the way business is [...]

-------------------- Most MIS Managers To Boost LAN Spending Most MIS decision makers plan to increase their spending on integrated network-management systems this year, despite their assertion that current products are […]

Top of the list of planned new applications are electronic data interchange (EDI) and electronic mail, with more sites running them this year than last. Nearly a third of all […]

A recent national survey of more than 450 executives responsible for hiring data processing professionals indicated that the downsizing mode of the past six months may be lessening. The survey […]

Office automation (OA) is still failing to deliver many of the benefits businesses expect because it is focused at the wrong level. The latest evidence comes from newly published survey […]

Sales of personal computers to small U.S. businesses will reach $2 billion in 1991, according to a recent survey of 700 small businesses. The survey, done by Business Research Group, […]

Information technology must become more closely integrated with the businesses it serves. Integratin information technology with corporate objectives will be the biggest problem facing business in the early 1990s. And […]

Most people who work from home plan to make extensive equipment purchases in the next five years, according to Venture Development Corporation's recent home-office survey. Venture Development Corporation, a management-consulting […]

PC networks to fuel software spending predicts Romtec Spending on PC software will mushroom this year as PC networks continue to spread, predicts market research company Romtec. According to a […]

Firms Gear Up For Long Haul Sophisticated trade maneuvers diminish foreign exchange effects. CORPORATE AMERICA may be finding that rather than try to beat the foreign exchange markets, it's easier, [...]