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Becoming a Strategic CFO With Real-Time Information
June 21, 2018
In the past, CFOs and accounting professionals handled the finances of an organization, and they were mainly charged with overseeing things like budget, spending, and tracking a company’s financial history. These days, however, the CFO role is being transformed into something new. More and more companies want their CFO to be the go-to person who helps shape the overall strategy of the organization, with both the company’s end goals and financial well-being in mind. To meet these new demands, both finance and accounting specialists can greatly benefit from an intelligent financial management system, delivering real-time access to information, robust reporting and analytics, and emerging technology to help drive continuous innovation.
Read More at The Digitalist by SAP >
Valuing Data as an Asset
June 20, 2018
The world of data is changing fast. There is a lot of talk is swirling around about the need to value a company’s data as a business asset on its balance sheet. Data, in the right hands, is often as valuable as land, buildings, and equipment. Many organizations know very little about the value of their own data, but there are a few compelling reasons to start thinking about how to value a company’s data for accounting purposes. Relying on big data alone increases the chances of missing something, while the illusion we know everything. It can also introduce quantification bias — the unconscious belief of valuing the measurable over the immeasurable.
Technology is Changing Supply Chain Management As We Know It
June 19, 2018
The supply chain is the heart of a company’s operations. To make the best decisions, managers need access to real-time data about their supply chain, but the limitations of legacy technologies can hinder the goal of end-to-end transparency. However, those days may soon be behind us. With a digital foundation in place, companies can capture, analyze, integrate, easily access, and interpret high quality, real-time data — data that fuels process automation, predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, and robotics, the technologies that will soon take over supply chain management.
Read More at The Harvard Business Review >
Data Operations: A New Approach
June 18, 2018
Data is now mainstream and finance leaders have realized that it can be a competitive advantage and the perception of the need to democratize it. Thought leaders of digital transformation and disruption already understand the value of proper business process modeling. Accepting that everyone wants to be data-driven, we should all recognize that data flows are nothing else but business workflows without structure. That is why it is important to bring in data operations experts for effective collaboration between product management, data engineering, data science, and business operations.
Read More at The Digitalist by SAP >
