Good or bad, disruption has become a common business term that has threatened many traditional organizations.
In this new market, every business function will be tested, with finance facing a kaleidoscope of different growth rates, regulations, reporting, currencies, and tax practices. It will be a major test...
Published: Jun 07, 2017
Businesses today must keep pace with unprecedented change. Some can react quickly, while others struggle. What separates the winners from the losers?
“The New Game Plan for Strategic Planning” is the product of HBR’s in-depth research. The report includes interviews with industry experts, analysis...
Published: Jun 07, 2017
Economic volatility, rising globalization, and the relentless fast pace of innovation driven by the informed consumer have forever changed the business landscape for manufacturers.
As those changes have developed and continue to shapeshift, the dynamic between Supply Chain and Finance has evolved as well. While the...
Published: Jun 07, 2017
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is extending its reach beyond the CFO’s office to automate five critical aspects across the modern enterprise: strategy, plans, budgets, performance, and forecasts.
If you’re ready to get more from your EPM investment, download IDC’s white paper, “Connecting...
Published: Jun 07, 2017
For the past twenty years Experian has been working closely with retailers, tracking the transformation of this industry. Without a doubt, these are challenging times for retailers, with the last two years in particular having given us a series of gloomy news stories. But it is also the case that new technologies, when...
Published: Mar 10, 2011
For years NetSuite has worked with growing businesses in all industries and geographies, and with thousands of finance and IT professionals who are guiding their companies through different phases of development. While these businesses are diverse, their challenges in dealing with reaching the limits of Sage are often...
Published: Nov 09, 2015
For the first time, employers will be required by law to automatically enrol all eligible workers into a workplace pension scheme that meets certain minimum standards and to make a contribution to this pension scheme, adding to the contributions made by their workers. The clue is in the name: ‘automatic enrolment’...
Published: Nov 18, 2012
The modern, interconnected business world demands a modern vision of what risk means.
Finance leaders must reckon with risk. And what this means today is very different from what it meant even a year ago. We know that risk is not what it once was—a manageable series of responses based largely on a limited set...
Published: Jun 02, 2017
Increased regulatory focus and rising interest rates mean lenders need to revisit their measures of affordability ahead of changes. Accurately assessing both customers’ affordability and suitability are essential requirements for all lenders who wish to extend credit responsibly whilst minimising their risk exposure....
Published: Sep 09, 2014
The potential of big data is nothing new to marketers. The realisation that ever-increasing amounts of customer generated information can have a massive and positive impact on marketing has now coalesced into the concept of the Single Customer View (SCV) and the vision that marketers can truly understand their customers...
Published: Nov 26, 2012
Over the last ten years the consumer landscape has changed beyond recognition. In just one decade the Internet has transformed our lives in some quite extraordinary ways. Two things – social media and mobile devices, have largely driven this transformation. Both have enabled us to connect with each other (and with...
Published: Apr 30, 2013
Accounts Payable (AP) teams are under more pressure than ever before. The business expects them to process greater volumes of supplier invoices while providing more strategic data and direction. How can AP achieve higher levels of efficiency to free up valuable time and resource?
We produced this 10-step guide to...
Published: Jan 11, 2017
The average supplier invoice ties up 15 people on its journey across your company.
Take a look at the top challenges your business is likely to face without streamlined processes in place and see how companies of all sizes can step off the supplier invoice merry-go-round.
Published: Jul 25, 2016
This discussion paper examines four of the most material impacts on customer retention and offers some solutions on how to tackle customer churn effectively.
Published: Feb 07, 2009