Finance & Operations
Collection

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.

Enabling Technologies

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...

Software Company CFOs Discuss Risks, Budgeting and Talent Issues
Chief financial officers (CFOs) of high-growth software organisations met virtually to discuss topics of mutual interest, including top risks, leading...

Insurance Distribution Firm Positions Itself for Successful IPO and Global Expansion with Finance and Technology Transformation
An award-winning, entrepreneurial insurance distribution and risk management firm serving more than 1.2 million clients was facing multiple challenges...
ESG

Podcast | ESG and Data Management – with Alyse Mauro Mason and Mark Carson and Zachary Unger
Data management is a critical component of an organisation’s reporting and required disclosures, whether they are for regulatory authorities or...

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...

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...

Biden Doubles Down at COP27
Last Friday at the2022United Nations Climate ChangeConference,orConference of the Partiesof the UNFCCC (more...
Workforce Transformation

Organisational Culture Is a Competitive Advantage
1 big thing: Where are the culture strategies?
Consider this: If culture eats strategy for breakfast, why do some organisations continue to respond...

Talent, Culture and the Future of Work – The Defining Business Challenges of the Next Decade
When assessing the top risk issues organisations will face this year as well as over the next decade, one key theme stands out: People and culture are...

Talent Strategies Demand a New Normal
People and culture sit atop the list of key risk concerns of board members and executives worldwide looking out over the next 12 months as well as...

Talent, Culture and Disruption Represent Top-Ranking Risks for CFOs
Global uncertainty, disruption, talent, culture … these are among the challenges on the minds of CFOs for both the near and long term, according to...
Supply Chain

Global Multimedia Organisation Transforms Sourcing and Procurement Function and Saves Millions
In many organisations the procurement function is thought of purely as an administrative function and cost center, but addressing opportunities in...

Prospering in the New World of Supply Chain Risk Management
Introduction
Corporate boards and executive leaders are waking up to a new world with the disconcerting realisation that they don’t know what they...

A national retailer takes on inventory shrink to improve margins
At a price tag of almost $50 billion per year,[1]retail industry losses due to inventory shrinkage are significant. Measuring inventory shrink...

Podcast | Building Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains
It should come as no surprise that, according to research from Protiviti, ESG metrics and measurement are among the top priorities for CFOs and...