analytics
Transform the Quoting Process for Engineer-to-Order Manufacturing with Cost-Based Quoting
by Matthew Smith For engineer-to-order businesses that manufacture products designed by their customers, the traditional CPQ process does not work....
What’s The Right Way to Use What-if Analytics?
“When making forecasts, there is a big difference between known levers of change and newly discovered and yet-unproven “nuggets” of...
Gartner: Build Cost Strategy Around Differentiating Factors, Not Competitive Trends
“Our research shows that CFOs are often blown off course by external targets that prioritize growth over profitability. Their targets,...
Give Purpose to Your Data to Drive Value
This McKinsey Digital article highlights the eight elements leadership teams should leverage to exploit their data analytics practices and make...
Employ Strategies to Turn Around Business Performance
“Explore strategic options under a “no-constraint rule”. Many finance business partners were not able to get the best ideas out...
Digital transformation programs need the right talent to success
“Success [for digital transformation programs] requires bringing together and coordinating a far greater range of effort than most leaders appreciate....
Your plans useless but you’re still planning
“Planning in such highly uncertain times must focus on the ability to quickly and flexibly react to fast changing circumstances....
COVID-19 Affects on Manufacturers
“We learned that some manufacturers wish they had put more thought and effort into the digital transformation prior to the...
Are You Really Data-Driven?
“Being a data-driven organization takes more than great technology and quality data. Like other aspects of digital transformation, it requires...