NOV/DEC 2011 | VOL. 38, NO. 8
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NOW MORE THAN EVER...
CLP PROGRAM FOCUSES ON
PRACTICAL BENEFITS
Equipment finance attorney Barry Marks speaks for
many in lauding the benefits of the Certified Leasing
Program offered by the CLP Foundation. While the
industry continues to reshape itself, Marks and others
firmly believe that the CLP designation is not only
beneficial, but critical for success.
BY BARRY S. MARKS, MARKS & WEINBERG
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TECHNOLOGY FORECAST:
CLEAR SKIES FOR CLOUD COMPUTING
It might seem that the consequences of
transitioning an accounting and portfolio
management team from an in-house solution
to one delivered as software-as-a-service are
minimal. But a closer look reveals that making
the leap to the cloud brings benefits to every
level of the organization.
BY ANDREW LEA, NETSOL TECHNOLOGIES
NORTH AMERICA
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THREE GUIDELINES FOR OPTIMIZING
CORPORATE AIRCRAFT FINANCING
Buying or leasing a corporate jet can help businesses
operate more efficiently and is sometimes cheaper
than relying on commercial airlines. But to reap those
benefits, executives must carefully structure aircraft
financing that suits their company’s near- to medium-term business needs.
BY DAVE LABROZZI, GE CAPITAL,
CORPORATE AIRCRAFT FINANCE
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PART 2 OF 2
FROM ‘TO DO’ TO ‘MUST DO’
STRATEGIC PLANNING
BEST PRACTICES
In Part 2 of this two-part article, Seabiscuit
Partners’ Ken Naglewski turns his attention to
flawed strategies and planning mishaps CEOs need
to recognize and avoid. Part 1, which appeared in
the Monitor’s 2011 Conference Issue, identified
core elements of the strategic planning process
and provided a perspective on strategic planning
practices.
BY KEN NAGLEWSKI,
SEABISCUIT PARTNERS
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MONITOR’S 2011 EXECUTIVE SURVEY
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS &
OTHER FUNDAMENTALS STILL COUNT
For the third year in a row, the Monitor surveyed
executives from equipment leasing and finance
companies of all sizes to find out the realities of
doing business as the pace of economic activity,
as Fed Chairman Bernanke recently noted, remains
“frustratingly slow.”
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MONITOR EXCLUSIVE
NEW APPOINTMENT AT
CAPITALSOURCE USHERS IN
NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERSHIP
When the industry learned of Laird Boulden’s
promotion to president of CapitalSource at the end of
October, the logical question arose: who will succeed
him to lead the company’s equipment finance
operations? According to Boulden, the appointment of
Maureen Carr to his former position goes way beyond
the appointment of a suitable replacement…
BY STUART P. PAPAVASSILIOU AND AMANDA L. GUTSHALL
