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McKinsey: Data Governance is Critical to Capturing Value Through Analytics
June 10, 2020
“Without quality-assuring governance, companies not only miss out on data-driven opportunities; they waste resources. Data processing and cleanup can consume more than half of an analytics team’s time, including that of highly paid data scientists, which limits scalability and frustrates employees. Indeed, the productivity of employees across the organization can suffer: respondents to our 2019 Global Data Transformation Survey reported that an average of 30 percent of their total enterprise time was spent on non-value-added tasks because of poor data quality and availability.”
Employ Strategies to Turn Around Business Performance
June 10, 2020
“Explore strategic options under a “no-constraint rule”. Many finance business partners were not able to get the best ideas out of their key internal stakeholders because many gave strategic options vis-à-vis the resources the business had. Suggestions for turning around the operations become constrained by the resources these stakeholders thought they had or could deploy at their disposal. It’s important to encourage key stakeholders to “free their mind” and consider the turnaround strategy as if there were no resource constraints. This encourages them to think beyond the company’s financial position at that moment.” C.F. Wong, ACMA, CGMA
Nine Key Traits from CFOs at Efficient Growth Companies
June 8, 2020
A recent Gartner survey of CFOs have identified nine traits CFOs should implement for better performance during a crisis including fighting scope creep, protecting costs that support competitive advantages, and using a mix of budget models to identify the activities that truly deliver value.
Digital transformation programs need the right talent to success
June 1, 2020
“Success [for digital transformation programs] requires bringing together and coordinating a far greater range of effort than most leaders appreciate. A poor showing in any one of four inter-related domains — technology, data, process, or organizational change capability — can scuttle an otherwise well-conceived transformation. The really important stuff, from creating and communicating a compelling vision, to crafting a plan and adjusting it on the fly, to slogging through the details, is all about people.”
