Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Survey April 17, 2025 Risk insights for finance teams If the first few months of 2025 are any indication, navigating risk-strewn near-term and long-term risk environments will be difficult. In this regard, the chief financial officers (CFOs) broad exposure to macroeconomic and strategic risks as well as finance-focused operational challenges is valuable. As finance leaders develop and update strategic roadmaps amid global uncertainty, it is helpful… Survey April 17, 2025 Private equity risk insights According to findings from Protiviti’s latest Top Risks survey, executives and board members from PE firms and their portfolio companies are facing several complex and interconnected risks — operational, macroeconomic and strategic — that could derail their value-creation efforts. In addition to economic-related worries, cyber threats rank as a top risk issue for this industry group, and with… Newsletter October 22, 2024 Private Equity Insights Q3 2024 In this issue of Private Equity Insights, we discuss our latest Global Finance Trends Survey results. CFOs and finance leaders around the world rated their top finance priorities. Our intent is for PE firms to use this intelligence to design and deploy new practices, tools and innovative approaches in their own finance organisation. We next take a look at financial planning & analysis (FP… Newsletter February 17, 2025 Are Your Board Materials Highlighting What’s Really Important? Board materials have long been an issue. What makes this issue one that must be addressed with intention is the current competitive, digital and data-driven environment leaves less time to make decisions due to the pace of change.Directors want more strategic emphasis and less operational detail in boardroom prep materials and discussions. Yet, we continue to hear board members express the view… Client Story September 14, 2023 Organisational Changes Drive Seamless Transformation of Back-Office Processes to Propel Business Strategy Protiviti partnered with leading technology company to assess, redesign, and standardise procurement, accounting, and finance functions. The company’s overall goal was to eliminate manual and disparate back-office processes to create capacity for strategic and growth objectives. Insights paper November 27, 2024 Harnessing the future: Protiviti’s research on AI adoption Due in large part to the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI), organisations of all types and sizes are implementing, or considering adopting, AI for various business functions and activities — from accounting and finance to cybersecurity, customer experience and more. Whitepaper February 8, 2023 Building Sustainable Data Governance Programmes with Agile Concepts The digital revolution has led to an explosive growth in the amount of data created and collected, driving businesses to seek new ways to manage and discover value in the data they hold. In turn, the growth of stored data has been a longstanding management problem, which if not addressed can lead to potential vulnerabilities, data misuse, and possible data loss. Podcast April 30, 2025 Podcast | Quantum Hype Check — with Anastasia Marchenkova Quantum computing is a fast-moving field, and not just when photons are involved. Join host Konstantinos Karagiannis for a wide-ranging chat with Anastasia Marchenkova where they cover recent developments and potential future outcomes. Topics include: chip hype, logical qubits, imminent practical business use cases, quantum random numbers, the implications of AI in quantum coding, investing, and… Podcast January 8, 2025 Podcast | Running Classical Binaries on Qubits — with Horizon Quantum Most applications businesses rely on are complex, with subroutines, loops, etc. Is it possible to run a binary like this on a quantum computer? Not quite, but one company has a tool that identifies portions of code where quantum computing circuits could make a difference and then manages the necessary handoffs. Join host Konstantinos Karagiannis as he discusses the future of running programs on… Podcast January 22, 2025 Podcast | Here Comes the Helios — 50 Logical Qubits, All Right with Quantinuum Many companies call 2025 the year of quantum computing for reasons ranging from PQC to better applications and hardware. Here comes the Helios system from Quantinuum, and we say it’s all right to celebrate 50 logical qubits this year. We look at the company’s roadmap, aggressive error-correction ratios, and some innovative ways the coming systems will work with AI to solve problems and not just… Load More
