Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by Relevance Date Order Asc Desc Blogs July 24, 2022 How to Build Effective FinOps Capabilities in Cloud Financial operations (FinOps) professionals around the world are generally unflappable, and they need to be. Moving finances to cloud, essentially transferring the spend from CapEx to OpEx, is proving to be a struggle. Organisations are seeing mixed success as they attempt to adopt new FinOps methodologies and are finding it difficult to control spend as development teams and engineers are… Blogs July 21, 2022 A Hot Jobs Market Requires Organisations to Strengthen Talent Acquisition Strategies Fierce competition among organisations for too few workers has created a job seeker’s market. Unemployment has remained at a historically low rate of 3.6% since the end of April, and employers were seeking to fill 11.5 million job openings as of the end of April after hiring 6.7 million during the month. But for a temporary increase in unemployment due to the pandemic… Blogs July 13, 2022 Congratulations on Choosing SAP. What Comes Next? Congratulations! Your organisation recently made the decision to move forward with selecting SAP S/4HANA, and you will either be leaving an old ERP or a previous version of SAP ECC behind — a great strategic move but only the first in many more decisions to come on the SAP ERP journey that lies ahead. The SAP solution portfolio includes numerous components that can be deployed in many ways. To… Blogs July 6, 2022 Demystifying Digital Transformation in Finance Digital transformation in finance has been on the docket for years. So, why do organisations still struggle? The status quo is filled with manual, spreadsheet-driven workflows and fractured application ecosystems that may have been caused by failed attempts at digital transformation — and significant investments alone will not guarantee success. These issues have led to reduced data integrity… Blogs July 4, 2022 7 Reasons Why Business Continuity and Technology Resilience Managed Services Will Benefit Your Business Operational leaders of nearly every organisation, regardless of size, geography or industry, have seen a seismic shift in the unexpected changes to operational processes over the last few years. From supply chain and infrastructure disruptions, remote work and severe staff shortages to rapidly rising prices, each business has a striking story to tell of how it has been impacted. It’s also likely… Blogs July 4, 2022 Labor Shortages Challenge Supply Chains to Automate While Retaining Employees and Their Trust Among the business topics that have dominated the press over the past two years, supply chain difficulties and labor shortages have certainly been at the top. But the two are not mutually exclusive. organisations across all industries are having a hard time finding employees to keep their supply chains operating as efficiently and smoothly as possible; goals that have been made more difficult… Blogs June 15, 2022 Driving The Top Line: Reflecting On A Critical Business Process Mission critical The quote-to-cash (Q2C) process is a vital part of the sales cycle that is responsible for driving revenue for an organisation. It encompasses detailed sales functions spanning from initial quote configuration to payment receipt and revenue recognition. Optimising the Q2C process allows companies to speed up sales cycles, close a higher percentage of deals and create a better… Blogs June 13, 2022 And the Survey Says: Digital and Emerging Technologies Will Add Jobs Over the Next Decade It’s probably not surprising that emerging technology’s role in the future of work, the workforce and workplaces are top of mind for global business leaders; what is surprising is nearly three quarters (74%) of those executives believe digital and emerging technologies will add jobs and increase the size of their workforce over the next decade. That should help allay some of the fears of workers… Whitepaper June 6, 2022 Australia’s Critical Infrastructure Act Reforms — A Positive Step in Strengthening Industry-wide Resilience The existing Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (SOCI Act), which requires owners and operators to take steps to safeguard defined critical infrastructure assets, has recently been amended to broaden the scope of industry sectors. This has been achieved through a combination of:The Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Act 2021 (Cth) (the SLACI Act 2021… Blogs May 24, 2022 A CISO’s First 100 Days: Finding Champions and Building Relationships It’s our good fortune to have an abundance of information security expertise at Protiviti, and it’s even better when we assemble these experts to share their experiences. In this first of a three-blog series, we discuss the early days for the CISO’s transition into a new leadership role which include:Establishing crucial relationships with the business, IT and security and privacy teams… Load More