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.
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A New Playbook: Responding to Slower Growth, Changing Customer Behaviors
At a glance
The big picture: Slowing growth and changing customer behaviors require an orchestrated response inside the organization. The CFO is best...
Five Considerations for Finance Leaders After Recent Banking Market Disruption
Current events highlight what many have been talking about for years with respect to risk and governance. Now is the time for leaders to take stock of...
Six Reasons to Reconsider Cost Optimization
As senior executives face more pressure to respond to rising costs and eroding profit margins, CFOs can remind their colleagues that they have more...
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...
Enabling Technologies
Technical Debt and Innovation – the CFO’s Perspective
Organizations 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 organization and deliver...
Technology transformation and change management help non-profit organization reach donors and improve fundraising
United Way of Greater Toronto (UWGT), with an overriding mission to eradicate poverty, has successfully mobilized volunteers and financial resources...
Demystifying Digital Transformation in Finance
Digital transformation in finance has been on the docket for years. So, why do organizations still struggle?
The status quo is filled with manual,...
ESG
Podcast | ESG and Data Management – with Alyse Mauro Mason and Mark Carson and Zachary Unger
Data management is a critical component of an organization’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
The big picture
Recent ESG regulations from across the globe are changing the game for sustainability.
The global regulatory picture is...
COSO Issues Supplemental Guidance on Internal Control Over Sustainability Reporting
The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) has released supplemental guidance on how to effectively apply the 2013...
5 Ways to Mitigate Greenwashing — and Greenhushing — Risks
You probably know about “greenwashing.” But are you familiar with “greenhushing”?
“Greenwashing” is an accusation that activists, investors and...
Workforce Transformation
Talent, Culture and the Future of Work – The Defining Business Challenges of the Next Decade
When assessing the top risk issues organizations will face this year as well as over the next decade, one key theme stands out: People and culture are...
Talent, Culture and Disruption Are Top-Ranking Risks for CFOs, Survey Shows
I love to learn new words. Whether or not CFOs are familiar with this term, they undoubtedly know its connotation and are dealing with its effects...
New Protiviti Research — From Automation and Cloud to ESG and Talent Management, CFOs Are Reimagining Their Long-Term Roles
These are dynamic times for CFOs and their finance teams, and they are not likely to change any time soon. As strategic programs for ESG, technology...
The Purveyor: The CFO’s Role in Human Capital Reporting
Chief financial officers well-versed in regulatory matters may want to give their human resources colleagues a heads-up regarding the human capital...
Supply Chain
Industry 4.0 Ten Years In: What’s Slowing You Down? Three Ways to Get Back on Track
Industry 4.0, also referred to as the fourth industrial revolution, is a convergence of technologies that promises remarkable outcomes, including...
Global Multimedia Organization Transforms Sourcing and Procurement Function and Saves Millions
In many organizations 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 realization that they don’t know what they...
Creating a More Flexible and Resilient Supply Chain Starts With Identifying Key Risk Exposures
No matter what they make or sell — computers, pet food, cosmetics, textiles — companies around the world are grappling with significant supply chain...
