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Industry Week: What Makes a High-Performance Organization?

“The process for developing a high-performance organization requires measurement. If you value something, then it should be measured. If you...
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SF Magazine: Change Your Approach to Finance Strategy

“We used to spend a lot of time analyzing historical data to in­form business planning; we’ve now switched to a...
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CFO Magazine: Preparing for an Uncertain Future Requires Agility

There are several roadblocks to a full-fledged commitment to finance digital transformation. Some of those include: Legacy platforms make significant...
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Industry Week: 5 Lessons from Silicon Valley that Translate to Manufacturing

Today, most industrial companies are not in a position to make data-driven decisions and are quite unfamiliar with business experiments....
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Robert Kugel on LinkedIn: Fundamental Change is Coming to ERP Systems

By the end of the 2020s, ERP systems will have a different look and fulfill a broader role in organizations....
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SF Magazine: Considerations in Data Analytics Problem Structuring

There are three key elements that should be in place before kicking off a data analytics project – understand the...
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FP&A Trends: 3 Ways to Organise FP&A Teams: The Pros and Cons

In general, there are three typical ways FP&A teams are organized – by function, by line of business, or by...
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FP&A Trends: Managing Fixed Costs During Uncertainty

When looking to reduce fixed costs, Karnawat suggests investigating these expense categories: Payroll and benefits Supplier relationships Outsourcing Cost of...
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McKinsey: Overcoming the Core-Technology Transformation Stalemate

“Which approach describes your digital transformation? “Repaint” by making the minimum investment required to maintain existing operations and digital channels;...
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