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142: The Global Talent Equation | Phil Friedman, CEO, CGS

122: All Business Inside the Sunshine State
Join us when when three business leaders from the state of Florida share their views on what it takes to build a competitive middle market workforce inside today's business climate. Featured Business Leaders Daniel Gold, CEO, Future Energy Solutions Join us when Future Energy Solutions CEO Daniel Gold shares his middle-market mind-set as he pulls back…

120: Midsized Dynamic Duos | CEO CFO Management Teams
Join us when we highlight the CEO CFO teamwork that punctuates the growth of three successful midsized firms. Atrion Tim Hebert, CEO Join us when Tim Hebert, CEO of Atrion, exposes the path that allowed him to grow as a business leader alongside the firm he would grow to more than $150 million in annual…

115: Adopting a Cloud Subscription Model
Learn More About These Middle Market Business Leaders Tom Stewart CFO, SecureAuth Which industry is currently having the greatest impact on the evolution of the finance function? Join us when CFO Tom Stewart of SecureAuth adds his voice to the innovative clan of “Subscription Economy CFOs” who are determined to recast the mission of…

My Growth Priorities: CEO Chris Reed of Soft Drink Upstart Reed’s Inc.
Reed: We acquired top channels from the beverage industry to come in here, and we’re putting two new facilities on-board that make it a lot more economical to produce our products with a lot more efficiency. They’re designed for our products specifically, and bringing in-house some stuff that we were contracting out. So, we […]

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How Technology Business Management (TBM) is Remedying the Middle-Market’s M&A Blues
Middle market CIOs and CFOs face an uphill challenge in creating value in the midst of an M&A initiative; deals may not meet their expected valuation if cost transparency is not evident, analytics are not in place, and if IT and the business are not aligned. Technology Business Management (TBM) and IT analytics will help […]

As More Midmarket CFOs Sharpen Their Customer Focus, More Are Smitten with the Cloud
A business realm long populated by headstrong entrepreneurs and family-owned businesses, the middle market is experiencing a wave of technology adoption that seems intent on further upending the traditional laws of business competition as it diminishes the size advantage that large enterprise companies have long enjoyed. When it comes to the middle market’s growing appetite […]

As IT Spending Drives Bigger Returns, CFOs Seek New Metrics
It wasn’t too long ago that IT spend as a percent of revenue was the time-honored metric of choice among finance executives determined to keep their firm’s IT spending within the light of day. In fact, many finance chiefs arguably still rely on the metric to provide a quick snapshot of their firm’s appetite for […]
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