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IndustryWeek: Mission Accepted: Deploying Digital Transformation
July 12, 2021
“The responses to the 2020 IndustryWeek Technology Survey painted a clear picture – manufacturers last year truly accepted the importance of undergoing a digital transformation. To be clear, it’s not that manufacturers didn’t understand the need pre-pandemic, but the impetus to intensify the journey was noticeably absent. It’s not anymore”
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.”
