Lean is more than a buzzword. Because the common understanding of lean is incomplete, it's been unjustly dismissed and criticized.
Traditional data analysis isn't sufficient for today's competitive climate, says Stanley Black & Decker's finance chief.
A buy-low strategy would favor going all-in on General Electric, but Amazon may be a better bet, despite its ambivalence on earnings.
Despite the enormous costs that have been wrung out of finance department operations, CFOs have plenty of reasons to push for more process improvement.
Running a business solely on "gut feel" is not sustainable, but neither is basing all decisions on the data.
