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The Conference Board is dedicated to providing Europe’s leading companies with the comparative knowledge and perspective they need to develop their regional and world-wide potential.
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Peer Networks
CFO Business Unit Council
Business Unit CFOs in Europe continue to gain importance as strategic drivers of the company. The skill set demanded from them keeps on growing. This council focuses on key aspects of CFO leadership: business, operational, and organization/people impact.
Customer Experience Council
The Council’s mission is to gain insights in Customer Experience across industries and regions by providing a global peer-to-peer benchmarking and best-practice sharing program.
Corporate Governance Council
Discusses the dramatic changes that are affecting boards of directors in Europe and how they might best respond to these changes in order to drive business forward and meet the needs of their investors and stakeholders.
Publications
The Conference Board Economics Watch® European View
The Euro Area economy continues to grow, even though growth has been losing steam.
(Economics Watch Reports, October 2018)
Is GDPR the Death Knell for Human Capital Analytics?
In a post-GDPR world where data privacy is a growing concern, companies must earn the trust of employees, job applicants, and contingent workers if they want to continue analyzing human capital data to generate business insights.
(Key Business Issues, September 2018)Webcasts
EU Circular Economy Package
November 13, 2018 03:00 PM CET [15:00] (Brussels), 09:00 AM ET [09:00] (New York), 02:00 PM UTC [14:00]
Join us for this webcast as we look at the concept of circular economy and discuss the opportunities and risks associated with the EU Circular Economy Package. CPE credit available
Customer-Centricity: Developing a Customer-Obsessed Culture
November 20, 2018 03:00 PM CET [15:00] (Brussels), 09:00 AM ET [09:00] (New York), 02:00 PM UTC [14:00]
Join us for this webcast as guest speaker Stuart Crawford-Browne, a regular judge of the UK Customer Experience Awards, shares his insights on how developing a customer-obsessed culture can help achieve competitive advantage. CPE credit available
Blogs
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
As artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged in the last three decades, the effect on unemployment has not matched the public's fears. Nonetheless, to avoid obsolescence companies and their employees need to make sure they're able to execute on the opportunities presented by AI and other technologies. (Society for New Communications Research Blog, November 2018)
It’s Time for the Arts to Rally Around Standardized Outcomes
The majority of companies do not measure standardized outcomes related to arts, despite the fact that doing so would help them show the effect of arts support on company objectives. The Impact Genome Project®, an initiative of Mission Measurement, provides a framework for standardized outcomes in the arts sector that companies should be utilizing to understand their contributions’ effectiveness. (Corporate Citizenship & Philanthropy Blog, November 2018)
On Governance: Agility in Your Boardroom
Boards are expected to be more alert and foresighted. They must be prepared for more rapid situational assessment, faster reaction time and creative solutions for creating value and representing shareholders’ interests. (The Governance Center Blog, November 2018)
