Credit Landscape in 2017

AICM would like to know its members' concerns and areas of focus for next year. Your responses will be vital to our ability to represent you in 2017. They will be kept private unless you are asked for permission to use them. Thank you for your time.

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* 1. Looking forward to 2017, what are your deepest concerns as a credit professional? Please rate the relevance of the issues below. Feel free to elaborate on your top concern in the comments section.

  Highly relevant Relevant Neutral Not relevant Definitely not relevant
Maximising the efficiency of your existing processes - doing more with less
Customers trying to dictate unfavourable terms
Keeping abreast of legislative and legal changes
Increased government regulation
Fraud and/or data security
Lack of or inaccurate information about potential customers
Implementation of new technology or software
Outsourcing as a threat to the credit function/staffing levels
Overall economic growth prospects globally
Slow payments, delinquency and general customer creditworthiness
Attracting or retaining qualified staff
Differentiating between/meeting the demands of different generations of staff and customers
Proving the value of the credit operation
Harnessing data within your business for better credit/business decisions
Team Performance
Improving the credit fundamentals of your team

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* 2. Comments Section

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* 3. Contact Information - please provide details if you are happy for us to contact you about the above. If you would prefer to keep your comments anonymous please leave this section blank.

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