Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Whitepaper October 7, 2020 10 Lessons for Managing Your Staff in the COVID Era Most business owners and managers know by now that when stay-at-home orders are lifted in their state or country, business as usual will be far from it. The workplace may look a lot different for the forseeable future as health and safety protocols are implemented. And the transition to remote work could be lasting one for businesses that realise their employees can be just as productive… Whitepaper June 8, 2020 Gaining Shelter From the Storm – A Technology Labor Model Tailor-Made to Manage Crises This article addresses both the challenges CIOs and technology leaders experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic and how companies and their technology functions responded to it. We learned that the organisations and their stakeholders most likely to shape their narratives in a positive direction were those who understood and leveraged the benefits of the new technology labor model that supports a… Blogs January 31, 2023 Protiviti-Oxford Global Executive Outlook on the Future of ESG: Key Findings A global survey conducted by University of Oxford and Protiviti in the second quarter of 2022 reveals that business leaders worldwide agree ESG (environmental, social and governance) will be either extremely or somewhat important to their business success over the next decade. Executives were evenly split—50/50—on whether ESG would be “extremely important” or “somewhat important” to their… Newsletter September 10, 2020 Operational Resilience Gets a Makeover in the “New Normal” Churchill said he strived “to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year — and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.” His acknowledgment of the futility in predicting the future is especially apropos today as markets transition to the eventual “new normal.” The business model is akin to a finely tuned machine requiring the… 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… Flash Report March 29, 2023 COSO Issues Supplemental Guidance on Internal Control Over Sustainability Reporting The Committee of Sponsoring Organisations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) has released supplemental guidance on how to effectively apply the 2013 Internal Control — Integrated Framework (ICIF) — which is currently applied to financial reporting — to sustainability reporting. The guidance results from a project approved by the COSO board a year ago with the objective of helping organisations “… Blogs May 18, 2022 Women in Tech at Protiviti — Ghislaine Entwisle It might seem difficult to believe that, in 2021, only 25% of jobs in technology were held by women. Such a small percentage shows that women are still grossly underrepresented in this vital and continually growing industry. Whether the issue is a lack of women with education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects or archaic attitudes in hiring practices,… Blogs April 6, 2023 Why Retailers are Leveraging a Composable ERP Strategy This blog post was authored by Chris Hanson - Director, Danielle Baumann - Senior Manager, Enterprise Application Solutions on The Technology Insights Blog. As more and more retailers build strategies to address supply chain challenges, customer experience and ease of doing business, many have come to the realisation that there may not be a single best solution for their various needs… Newsletter October 29, 2020 Compliance Insights - October 2020 Your monthly compliance news roundup Protecting Institutions Against PPP Fraud On September 10, 2020, Brian Rabbitt, acting assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), provided a status update on the department’s efforts to combat Paycheck Protection Programme (PPP) fraud. According to Rabbitt, the DOJ has filed charges against 57 individuals for fraudulently… Client Story January 31, 2022 Client story: Apparel company's 'Instagram project' Apparel company enhances key processes, customer experience using insights from shoppers’ digital sentimentsBusinesses generate vast amounts of data every single day, mostly so-called dark data or information that go unused. Long before the current pandemic-driven e-commerce boom, a search technology firm estimated that 7.5 septillion gigabytes of data were generated by businesses worldwide each… Load More