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CFO Journal: Built-to-Evolve Data Can Help Transform Finance
July 9, 2021
“A finance data model or enterprise information model transforms a generic ERP package into a specific structure to fit an organization’s business needs. Ideally, such a model would be tailored to the organization’s business activities and priorities while still allowing flexibility for new product launches, reorganizations, or acquisitions. A complex, layered, and well-defined enterprise information model can provide the business with flexible reporting, harmonized transaction processing, business model agility, and expanded views of transactions and profitability.”
SF Magazine: Strategic Planning in a Crisis
July 7, 2021
SF Magazine article poses these as the core tenants to strategic planning:
- Evaluate strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
- Acknowledge key weaknesses; accept unpleasant realities
- Promptly implement agreed-upon strategies
Global Finance Magazine: Supply Chain Management Under Disruption
June 28, 2021
“Digital technologies will be a critical component of every company’s supply chain moving forward. They help optimize operations and achieve cost-saving goals, while enabling better customer-responsiveness from suppliers all along the chain.
Executives in this space talk a lot about the “supply chain control tower”—a dashboard of data, key performance indicators and other metrics that help managers achieve real-time, end-to-end visibility of their supply chains.”
CFO Magazine: Four Questions CFOs Should Ask Their Supply Chain Leaders
June 24, 2021
“For CFOs, it is critical to remain engaged in these conversations with their CSCOs and broader supply chain and transportation leadership. This includes making transportation volatility a C-suite-level conversation, capturing growth while controlling costs, ensuring that upstream and downstream collaboration is part of the ongoing strategy to strengthen the value chain, and adapting to a fast-changing environment.”
