Home     Contacts     Editorial     Advertising     Subscribe     Archives     Search     CMA Canada  
Current Print Edition
August/September 2010
CMA Management is a dynamic business magazine designed to help senior management professionals make informed decisions and give them a strategic advantage. Published by CMA Canada, CMA Management is circulated to more than 35,000 CMAs and 10,000 CMA candidates and students. It is also available by subscription.
Features
Expanding the CMA toolbox: UsingThe Variance Tree to make superiorprice/volume trade-off decisions
The Variance Tree aims to break businessperformance into its fundamental drivingelements. It is similar to budget varianceanalysis — performing comparisons(calculating variances) and splittingthe performance metrics intosub-elements. However, thedifference lies in twokey areas.
By Scott Miller, CMA and Jim Saunders
Is something missing from your company’s satisfaction package?
Conventional wisdom suggests that, salary, benefits, and other monetary factors are important aspects of keeping employees satisfied. But which factors have the biggest impact on overall satisfaction? While companies focus on the monetary factors, there are other components of the overall “satisfaction package,” that are just as important, yet often overlooked.
By Deborah Archambeault, Christopher M. Burgess and Stan Davis
May 2009
Enterprise governance: Risk and performance management through the business cycle
Even when the dust settles, economic downturns will not be a thing of the past. Business cycles—which entail ups and downs by their very definition—are here to stay. If companies are willing to accept that, the key question becomes: How can organizations adopt reliable risk management “through the business cycle” to deliver sustainable performance?
By Wim A. Van der Stede
Overcoming trying times
Matthew Scott, CMA, shows the value of remaining optimistic during economic challenges.
By Andrea Civichino
 
Columns
Dealing with the aftershocks
How are leaders motivating the “corporate survivors” in the aftermath of the credit crisis?
By Anita Caputo, CMA
Need financing? Build your business credit profile
We may be hearing that the government is supporting lenders in order to provide businesses with the capital they need to survive this economic hurricane; however, what we are seeing, is not that rosy.
By Glenn Agro
Fostering innovation in a firm
A book review of The Game-Changer by A.G Lafley and Ram Charan
Reviewed by Patrick Buckley, CMA, PhD
How to generate returns when the markets won’t do it for you
Like a surfer unsure of his chances of catching another wave as he is swept out to sea in a rapidly moving current, investors are questioning their investment strategies now more than at any other time in modern history.
By Craig A. Machel
When IT vendors don’t meet expectations
IT invariably involves dependencies on outside vendors. When they don’t perform as expected, this can wreak havoc on an organization.
By Jacob Stoller
Business ethicists tackle issues of slavery and servitude in business
Slavery exists in Canada. Organizations and consumers blindly enter contracts and make purchase decisions without knowing that they are contributing to the problem.
By John Cooper
Departments
Media Bites
Tools for achieving business excellence
  • Cats: The Nine Lives ofInnovation
  • The Truth about MiddleManagers
  • The Catalyst
News and views
New and noteworthy information you can use
  • Corporate sustainability reporting remains an issue forCanadian companies
  • Assistants influence the hiring decision