Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc In Focus February 18, 2025 Does DeepSeek disrupt your AI strategy? It should. Late last month, DeepSeek, the China-based AI startup, sent shockwaves worldwide when it released its latest model, DeepSeek R1, which it says rivals ChatGPT’s capabilities. OpenAI’s o1 model was released on Sept. 12, 2024, roughly four months ahead of DeepSeek’s R1 model release in January. Survey January 3, 2023 ESG: A continental rift? Key findings from an Oxford-Protiviti Survey, Executive Outlook on the Future of ESG, 2032 and Beyond: Oxford-Protiviti executive survey with a 10-year outlook finds North American leaders less worried about environmental risk and ESG regulation, and less open to change. Executives in Europe and Asia-Pacific (APAC) perceive the stakes as higher and expect more change externally and within their… 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… Client Story May 12, 2022 A National Retailer Takes on Inventory Shrink to Improve Margins Protiviti created a transparent end-to-end process flow by identifying gaps and providing recommendations for improvement and savings. A data deep dive reviewed elements of sales, markdowns and shrink data and a statistical analyses of shrink, damages and manual markdowns provided a total loss calculation. Newsletter October 9, 2025 Industry Insights - Consumer Products & Retail This month’s edition highlights the insights shaping today’s risk and innovation landscape. From Protiviti and NC State’s annual Top Risks Survey to our latest AI Pulse Survey, explore how organisations are advancing AI integration and driving industry transformation. Newsletter October 15, 2020 10 ESG Reporting Questions Directors Should Consider Environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting has come into its own as a discipline, with most public companies now issuing sustainability reports. What’s the board’s role in ensuring these reports are responsive to investors’ needs? Newsletter July 10, 2020 Is Your Board Digitally Savvy? As global markets continue to address the COVID-19 pandemic, practical digital know-how is becoming more than a desirable attribute that directors aspire to embrace. A compelling study asserts that companies could be falling behind if they lack a digitally savvy board. Boards and business leaders are well aware of the digital revolution taking place across the globe and how digital leaders were… 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… Client Story July 19, 2023 Finance Transformation Sets Course for Future Success A U.S.-based global skincare company was unable to provide timely financial reporting and performance analytics to its key stakeholders and private equity sponsor. Protiviti partnered with the company’s CFO, VP of Finance, Controller, and key stakeholders to assess and redesign the book close, reporting, and forecasting processes. Blogs December 7, 2023 How Tech Firms Can Prepare for New EU Operational Resilience Rules on ICT Risks This blog post was authored by Karter Klumpyan and Laura Moore, Director Risk and Compliance on The Protiviti View.The big picture: A two-step indicator-based approach proposed by EU supervisory authorities will be used to assess ICT services providers to determine whether they should be designated as critical and subjected to oversight under the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).Why it… Load More