Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Whitepaper October 4, 2018 Going Digital? Make Data Strategy a Priority Renowned management guru, author and professor Michael Porter has a number of spot-on quotes about strategy, including this one: “A company without a strategy is willing to try anything.” If you are a CIO or data officer and this sounds painfully familiar to you, you are not alone. As digitalization has started to dominate the thinking of CEOs and board members, the pressure to realize value from… Flash Report March 29, 2023 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 Internal Control — Integrated Framework (ICIF) — which is currently applied to financial reporting — to sustainability reporting. The guidance results from a project approved by the COSO board a year ago with the objective of helping organizations “… Survey January 13, 2023 2023 Top Risks in the Consumer Products and Services Industry Global economic uncertainty, inflation and supply chain disruptions are major headwinds facing the consumer products and services industry group, and particularly consumer packaged goods (CPG) and retail companies, heading into the new year. Separately, for airlines and hospitality companies, the potential impact of an unexpected crisis on revenue and resistance to cultural changes are the top… Newsletter August 23, 2023 The Director’s Playbook for Generative AI So much has been written about generative AI (GenAI), it seems like a constant buzz inspiring both wonder and fear. But the value proposition is alluring. After witnessing OpenAI’s ChatGPT in action, Bill Gates said, “I knew I had just seen the most important advance in technology since the graphical user interface.” Newsletter April 13, 2023 Transforming the Business to Operate at Market Speed As a term in business, “agile” is typically used to refer to a project management methodology, especially for software development. But there is a different, more strategic connotation of agility that merits close attention by boards as markets evolve.A global survey reports resistance to change as a top 10 risk looking out both 12 months and 10 years. CEOs and their executive teams face the… Newsletter November 14, 2021 Determining the Digital Investment Question in the Boardroom In the third decade of the 21st century, smart companies and boards across all industries recognize that the pace of technological change continues to unfold at warp speed. The question in the boardroom a decade ago — “Should we invest in digital transformation?” — has transitioned to a different question today: “How much should we invest and, more important, how fast should we invest, given our… Newsletter October 9, 2024 Board Risk Reporting in Disruptive Times Risk reporting to the board may not be fit for purpose in these uncertain times. Directors are trending toward expecting more dialogue, engagement and forward-looking insights based on relevant data and information. A principled approach would help.Boards and their companies face a constant and seemingly unending state of flux in the marketplace. Emergence of the unexpected is the norm. For… Newsletter December 11, 2024 Managing Organizational Blind Spots and Disruption The topics of organizational blind spots and industry disruption continue to command interest in the boardroom. Recent events hosted by Protiviti offer additional insights on these important topics.In October, Protiviti hosted two events attended by more than 700 directors and senior-level executives to discuss organizational blind spots and industry disruption. Prior issues of Board Perspectives… Whitepaper May 4, 2019 ERP System Implementation As organizations implement new enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to automate processes, it is becoming increasingly critical not just for IT, but also for the business units themselves, to understand their central role in the overall success of these initiatives. The implementation of an ERP system or any other major IT system should never be viewed as just an IT project because,… Newsletter March 15, 2022 Framing the Data Privacy Discussion in the Boardroom Data proliferation and data privacy regulatory activity across the globe have created the need for focused boardroom discussions. While cybersecurity continues to be an issue for boards, a more targeted focus on data privacy is increasingly necessary to ensure compliance across a rapidly expanding number of privacy regulations. Privacy risk represents a unique challenge driven by the volume and… Load More
