Finance & Operations
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The role of finance and operation executives is evolving to keep pace with the changing demands of customers and technology. Our finance and operations collection compiles global perspectives to help leaders become a forward-thinking, strategic partner to the business.
Featured Insights
From HR to Strategic Talent Advisers: Redesigning Workforce Planning for Success
What’s New: An organization’s ability to perform, adapt and thrive requires new talent strategies. CHROs and their teams should deploy HR variants of...
One CFO’s M&A Secrets: How Integration Speed Stems Talent Drain
The big picture: After a prolonged lull, M&A activity may be on the cusp of revival.
What to watch: One organization has sustained an...
Beyond the Buzzword: Making Supply Chain Agility a Reality
Supply chain agility is a strategic urgency and should be backed by formalised tools and processes.
The big picture: A persistent focus on cost...
Change management, automation and new digital tools transform finance operations for educational services company
A $1 billion educational services holding company that operates in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand needed to transform its finance operations. The...
Enabling Technologies
Technical Debt Demands Your Attention
By the numbers: Technical debt consumes nearly one-third of technology budgets and more than one-fifth of technology professionals’ time; 70% of CIOs...
How CFOs Can Use Data and Analytics to Drive Strategy
The big picture: CFOs have a vested interest in advanced analytics, given their role to bridge the gap between strategic and operational decision...
Technical Debt and Innovation – the CFO’s Perspective
Organisations today spend an average of 30% of their IT budgets and invest a fifth of their IT human resources on technical debt management. This...
Podcast | Select and Implement the Right Tech Tool for Your Finance Group – with Shelly Kalladanthyil and Nick McKeehan
One of the most significant decisions a CFO faces is selecting the right technology or tool to help them run the finance organisation and deliver...
ESG
ISSB Approves First Two Sustainability Disclosure Standards, and the Time Is Now for Jurisdictions to Act
At a Glance:
The ISSB has released the first sustainability disclosure standards. They’re voluntary, but wide adoption is expected among IFRS...
How Insurers Can Prepare for NAIC Climate Risk Disclosure Compliance
The big picture: The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the standard-setting body for the U.S. insurance industry, recently...
Podcast | ESG and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging – with Andaye Hill-Espinoza and Alfredo Mendez
A core component of the ESG program in any organisation is diversity, equity and inclusion. Different organisations take different approaches to DEI,...
Regulations and Demand for Accountability Set the Tone for the Future of ESG Disclosures
In recent years, increasing pressures from a variety of stakeholders have combined to drive companies toward more sustainable practices in their...
Workforce Transformation
Generation Z: How to Attract, Retain and Engage the Fastest-Growing Workforce Generation
The big picture: As organizations confront growing labor shortages, the retirement of baby boomers and the demand for new skills, attracting and...
Risky Women Podcast | Talent Management and the Nature of Work
Tonya Hummers, Managing Director at Protiviti, speaks with Sarah Olthoff, Senior Vice President and Chief Business Risk Officer at Discover Financial...
From HR to Strategic Talent Advisers: Redesigning Workforce Planning for Success
What’s New: An organization’s ability to perform, adapt and thrive requires new talent strategies. CHROs and their teams should deploy HR variants of...
Reboarding Requires New Rules of Engagement
The big picture: HR executives are spearheading the reboarding, or return to work, of remote employees to physical offices. Business leaders must...
Supply Chain
How Digital Twins Transform Supply Chains
What’s new: Digital twins can optimize existing supply chains and help design new trade networks. Supply-chain digital twins are now being created...
Podcast | Procurement as a Service: Bringing Together Talent and Skills – with Chris Monk and Holly Lindstrom
In the wake of a world-changing pandemic and amid current uncertainties in the global economy, organisations have made, and are making, some...
Beyond the Buzzword: Making Supply Chain Agility a Reality
Supply chain agility is a strategic urgency and should be backed by formalised tools and processes.
The big picture: A persistent focus on cost...
Supply Chain Orchestration Graduates From Theory to Leading Practice
The big picture: Leaders have learned that excess inventory does not suffice as insurance for supply chain disruptions. Boards view major supply chain...
