Author: Peter Chisambara
Enterprise Performance
More Data Doesn’t Always Lead to Better Decisions
Thanks to advancements in technology, our digital lives are producing expansive amounts of data on a daily basis. In addition to this enormous amount of data that is produced each day, the diversity of data types and data sources, and the speed with which data is generated, analyzed and reprocessed has increasingly become unwieldy. With read more
Enterprise Performance
Reimagining Business Processes in an Era of Cognitive Technologies
For years, the focus of many organizations has been on standardizing and automating existing business processes to achieve significant gains in efficiencies. Within the office of finance, mundane transactional processes such as order-to-cash, procure-to-pay and record-to-report have been the epitome of standardization and automation. As a result, a number of finance and accounting professionals have read more
Risk Management
Thinking About The Upside of Risk
Making intelligent and informed decisions is intrinsic to effective risk management. Many at times risk management decisions are centered around loss events and the negative consequences that might eventuate. The positive aspects of risk taking are hardly noticeable. Let’s take as an example, a decision by local-based company to build a sales and distribution presence read more
Challenge of Finance Best Practices and What CFOs Should Do About It
The modern CFO is touted as the right hand man of the CEO,
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Finance as the Custodian of Enterprise Performance Management
The days of having CFOs responsible for only preparing the statutory financial reports
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Finance Needs To Do More Than Prepare Reports
There is an ongoing discussion about the evolving role of finance and the
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Third-Party Risk: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt Your Business
Thanks to globalization and advanced technologies, the world economy is increasingly interconnected and
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Human or Machine Intelligence? Augmentation Key to Better Forecasting
Forecasting is an invaluable process for any business. A forecast can play a
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Applying Design Thinking to Finance
I recently finished reading The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the
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