Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by Relevance Date Order Asc Desc Client Story June 4, 2024 Offshore Drilling Firm Finds Major Savings Through Source-To-Pay Assessment, Spend Analysis, Category Management Protiviti conducted a complete source-to-pay assessment, from spend analysis and contract management to procurement function governance; implemented a spend analytics platform to conduct analysis to create a sourcing wave plan; implemented a category management function and led sourcing events to drive savings. Infographic June 3, 2024 Infographic | SIFMA’s Quantum Dawn VII Quantum Dawn VII is the latest iteration of SIFMA's biannual cybersecurity exercise focused on the outage of a critical third-party service provider (CTP). The simulation and concluding survey found many financial institutions are already experienced with the loss of CTPs, with protocols established for managing the outage. With such outages increasingly commonplace and regulators holding firms… Podcast June 6, 2024 Podcast | Understanding the California Climate Laws – with Alyse Mauro Mason, Ricardo Buitron, Michael Littenberg and Marc Rotter In September 2023, California legislators passed the first mandatory climate disclosure bills in the United States. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the two climate-impact reporting measures into law on October 7, 2023. The measures are expected to have far-reaching effects not only for the U.S.-based businesses that are required to comply but also for their trading partners around the world.In this… Podcast June 7, 2024 Podcast | Strategic Sourcing: Gaining Advantage, Mitigating Risk – with Lucas Manganaro Supply chain management continues to be a hot topic in countless organisations in light of ongoing geopolitical challenges, evolving impacts of climate change, new tariffs, changing labor markets, and much more. How can supply chain and procurement leaders attack these and other challenges? It starts with building and implementing a strategic sourcing strategy. Protiviti recently published… Podcast June 12, 2024 Podcast | The Quantum Many-Body Problem — with Benedikt Fauseweh of TU Dortmund University When Richard Feynman proposed the idea of a quantum simulator or computer in 1981, he was frustrated by the limitations of classical systems. He logically suggested that if we live in a quantum world, we need a quantum device to simulate all the interactions of particles that make up reality. An excellent example of such a transistor-choking calculation is the quantum many-body problem. Have… Newsletter June 12, 2024 21st-Century Board Oversight of Talent Acute talent shortages across numerous industries underscore the risks emanating from outdated, reactionary approaches to managing people, succession and culture. The question arises, what is the board’s role in forging a 21st-century approach to managing talent?Changing times have led to fleeting employee loyalty, as talented individuals have more options than ever before with greater… Blogs June 17, 2024 Don’t trawl for customers; consolidate your digital toolset and they will come to you With the retirement of third-party data on the horizon, marketers need to adjust and strategise on the data and tools available to them to find their customers. In the new first-party data world, what the customer directly gives you is what you already know, giving them more control. Customers have embraced that control and seek transparent ways of sharing information, when they want and when it… Blogs June 18, 2024 There’s a Bright Future for SAP BusinessObjects 4.3 and Beyond What’s ahead for SAP’s BusinessObjects? Customers currently on BusinessObjects 4.2 should know that it will go out of support at the end of this year. Which means that now is the optimum time to make the move to the latest supported BusinessObjects version. Blogs June 18, 2024 Design Thinking for Technology Modernisation: Driving Value, Reducing Technology Debt In the consumer products and retail sectors, the burdens of legacy systems and manual processes pose significant challenges for organisations across the value chain from store or online purchases to overall operations. Disconnected applications, error-prone tasks, technical debt and a lack of insight and intelligence can hinder efficiency and innovation. To address these pressing issues, a… Blogs June 18, 2024 Leveraging the Human Factor: When Digital Strategies Alone Can’t Revive Slowing Results Businesses are constantly searching for new ways to match messaging to eyeballs, or put succinctly, trying to adapt new strategies to engage effectively with customers where they are consuming content. But what happens when these digital marketing and advertising efforts start to lose steam? Load More