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CEOs’ Expectations Hit Highest Level Since May 2011 The CEO Confidence Index, Chief Executive’s monthly gauge of CEOs’ expectations for business conditions for the next 12 months, saw its highest month-over-month gain in the past two years, rising 9.5 percent to 6.07 out of a possible 10. The rating of current conditions also saw an uncommonly high monthly gain, rising 8 percent to 5.70 out of 10.	ChiefExecutive.net	CEO Briefing Newsletter	May 14 2013
Mid-Size Companies Mixed on Global Market While some firms are looking to go global, many see no pressing need to look beyond the U.S.	ChiefExecutive.net	CEO Briefing Newsletter	May 13 2013
Intel’s Software Inside Is on the Rise “If Intel’s future chief executives continue rising through its ranks, then the real news isn’t that Intel named Brian Krzanich its sixth CEO. It’s that Intel software chief Renee James may be in line to succeed him,” writes Mark Hachman reporting for ReadWrite.com. Intel’s CEOs generally emerge from the president’s office or that of the COO—Krzanich’s former job. Last November, the elevation of Renee James by Intel’s chairman Andy Bryant, along with Krzanich, Dadi Perlmutter, Intel’s chief of its chip business, and Arvind Sodhani, head of the company’s internal VC unit, Intel Capital, as possible successors to Paul Otellini, marked a departure for famed semiconductor company.	ChiefExecutive.net	CEO Briefing Newsletter	May 9 2013
States in Fierce Competition Over Tax Reform Just as countries vie with one another to be agreeable places in which to do business by having congenial tax rates, U.S, states have come to realize that in order to attract jobs and diversify revenue, they too, must adjust their tax structure accordingly. Long having struggled to attract business and diversify its economy, New Mexico recently passed a tax reform package which will likely cause nearby states like Arizona, California and Nevada to take notice and possibly rethink their own efforts at reform. Texas’ governor Rick Perry, who runs a fairly low-tax state environment, is calling for even more reductions.	ChiefExecutive.net	CEO Briefing Newsletter	May 9 2013
How CEOs Grade the Best/Worst States: 2013 Here’s a look at how our CEOs graded the states for this year’s survey. For additional reference are other important state statistics.	ChiefExecutive.net	Best & Worst States	May 6 2013
10 Best States for Business 2013: Slideshow Here’s a look at the best states in which to do business in 2013 and what CEOs had to say about them.	ChiefExecutive.net	Best & Worst States	May 6 2013
10 Worst States for Business 2013: Slideshow Yet again, California takes the title of the worst state in which to do business. Here are the other states that didn’t perform well in this year’s survey.	ChiefExecutive.net	Best & Worst States	May 6 2013
Five Questions Board Members Need to Ask About Cloud Computing Board members are hearing more and more from their management teams about the noteworthy business benefits of cloud computing, such as: Cloud strategies make the enterprise more efficient and agile. Cloud computing allows delivered services to be more innovative and more competitive. Cloud computing reduces overall operating costs. But how confident can boards be that management plans will achieve these benefits? Is there a way to know that, even if the benefits are real, increased operational risk will not outweigh those benefits? Fortunately, by understanding what cloud is and what it is not and by asking a few key questions of management teams, boards can gain that confidence—in management plans and strategic goals, as well as in the decisions made in response to those plans.	ChiefExecutive.net	CEO Briefing Newsletter	May 2 2013
How Smart Manufacturing Changes Everything Automation of processes that increase yield and raise productivity, is the core of what people think of when they speak of smart manufacturing. Smart is not limited to process change but opens the door to the use of new materials. Rather than stocking inventory 3-D printing capability allows custom built job-lots of one. Smart is certainly transforming manufacturing but it also transforms companies themselves. Witness Valin Corp. a San Jose supplier to the semiconductor that nearly perished in the wake of the dotcom bust of 2001.	ChiefExecutive.net	CEO Briefing Newsletter	April 25 2013
Stock Market’s Rise May Be Producing Crop of Very Cautious CEOs, Study of Stock Options Suggests With the stock market surge over the past several years, executive stock options awarded near the bottom of the market are worth small – or not so small – fortunes. How does this affect the way CEOs run their companies? A hefty increase in options’ paper value may lead to sharp decrease in risk-taking	ChiefExecutive.net	CEO Briefing Newsletter	April 25 2013

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