New events coming in July. Archived webcasts are available for up to 180 days after the live presentation.

New events coming in July. Archived webcasts  are available for up to 180 days after the live presentation.

• New leading practices in retail banking.
• Science and technology innovations for optimizing branches and staff performance.
• How retail store design plays in to the rethinking of bank branches to make them more attractive destinations from a customer perspective.

• Strategies for reducing costs and increasing revenues to create greater competitive advantage, stronger customer loyalty, and more repeat business.
• Insights on how lenders can take advantage of the online channel.
• Ways lenders can increase customer satisfaction and strengthen customer relationships through originating loans online.

• The industry definition of shopper marketing and where it stands today.
• Leading practices, including developing unique customer segmentation strategies and better integration of the sales and marketing functions.
• Potential barriers to shopper marketing success, including the lack of funding and inability to consistently execute in-store programs.

• Counterfeiting and why it should be addressed in your global corporate strategy.
• Specific supply chain factors that allow the problems of unsafe products and counterfeiting to occur.
• Tactical steps, such as litigation, to address these factors.

• Key financial stresses that government agency executives face today, including the aging workforce, budget deficits, and soaring entitlement programs.
• Innovative best practices that government agencies can borrow from leading global commercial organizations.
• Examples of how states are addressing tough financial decisions.

New events coming in July. Archived webcasts are available for up to 180 days after the live presentation.

New events coming in July. Archived webcasts are available for up to 180 days after the live presentation.

• Key drivers accelerating growth of the retail marketplace and implications for health plans.
• Approaches and considerations for developing an updated suite of sales and marketing capabilities focused on the end consumer.
• A new sales and marketing framework that supports the retail environment.

• A market-disciplined, outside-in approach to understanding the producer marketplace, including agency segmentation.
• Using analytics to mine data as a strategic asset for more informed decision making.
• How to find and measure more powerful partnering relationships.

• The current environment and drivers for change.
• Regulatory and compliance considerations for Phase IV trials and investigator-initiated studies.
• Regulatory and compliance considerations – such as publication strategies, trial registration, ghost writing, authors, and publication selection – for publishing and distributing reprints.

New events coming in July. Archived webcasts are available for up to 180 days after the live presentation.

• Compliance with FERC's new mandates on NERC's cyber security standards for critical infrastructure protection.
• Addressing operational control, financial, and regulatory risks associated with the new standards.
• Benchmarks of an effective cyber security management program for rate-base recovery.

• Evaluating service providers and sub-advisors, including an overview of AICPA’s Statement of Position 07-2, and the usage of third-party reports.
• Efforts to consolidate risk and control evaluation initiatives throughout an extended enterprise.
• Tests used to assess compliance in specific areas.
• Reporting results to interested parties such as management, the Board, and clients.

• Key challenges for manufacturers today, including high business costs, the impact of globalization, and demographic and technology changes.
• Emerging opportunities for manufacturers to expand internationally, including falling trade barriers and new technologies.
• Strategies to help manufacturing companies compete in a global economy.

• Developments in standard setting and SEC requirements, including convergence of IFRS and U.S. GAAP, options for foreign filers, and scenarios for domestic filers.
• Impact of IFRS on areas other than financial reporting, including treasury, tax, and operations.
• Key differences between IFRS and GAAP from a real estate perspective, including accounting for investment properties and real estate sales.

• The myth of digital media distribution – why digital products, platforms, and services are not as complex as they seem.
• The real future of digital media distribution – how traditional supply chain structures can organize creative, production, broadcasting, and service providers into three manageable functions – content creators, digital content repositories, and digital portals.
• The opportunities in digital media distribution – how traditional companies can adapt to, and benefit from, new digital media strategies, priorities, and investments.

• Which countries have the most innovative technological advancements in today's fastest growing industries including technology, life sciences, and alternative energy.
• What countries do venture capitalists perceive to be the most challenging to do business in.
• Venture capitalists’ willingness to invest internationally.

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