Cultivating Leaders: How the Credit Research Foundation Helps Lead the Way

Nov 15, 2024 | Leadership

For over 75 years the Credit Research Foundation (CRF) has supported Credit Executives in the business-to-business (B2B) world based on two primary principles: (1) provide quality, comprehensive education from “the basics” to the senior credit executive level, and (2)...

Is Your Company Ready for a Downturn in the Economy?

Sep 27, 2024 | Economy

It’s been 16 years since the last major economic downturn – the banking crisis that started in 2007 and was in full impact mode from 2008 through 2010. During that period, the U.S. economy shed over 8.7 million jobs, and the unemployment rate peaked at 10% in...

Where Leadership Reigns

Aug 28, 2024 | Leadership

Is leadership a learned or a genetically inherited trait among credit professionals?  I’m sure this is a topic that can be debated by some of the brightest minds in the world, but one thing can’t be debated: at the Credit Research Foundation (CRF) the brightest minds...

So, What is Changing in Your World? – Digitizing the Customer Onboarding Process

Jun 6, 2024 | Digital Transformation

I recently sat in on the CRF educational webinar “How to Implement a Digital Credit Application” and found myself intrigued by the candid response to one of the top productivity opportunities in the B2B credit space. The speaker was Bill James from Creditsafe (CRF...

Selling the Order-to-Cash Transformation

May 16, 2024 | Digital Transformation

It’s Your Job to Sell Order-to-Cash Transformation – An Outline to Begin Your Journey Through a recent CRF webinar, I had the pleasure of listening to a former credit practitioner, Sarah-Jayne Martin, share her experiences selling the need to invest in technology at...