Pragmatic RiskInsights
Strategy
Achieving Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Today, businesses are operating in an intensely competitive environment. New products and markets are continuously being created disrupting the traditional offerings. To succeed in this environment, your business needs to shake up the status quo and avoid competing in exactly the same way as your rivals. When it comes to competitive advantage in business, it read more
Enterprise Performance
Finance in the Digital Age
The face of the finance function is changing every day but do we really understand what this means in reality? I love to mentor young professionals and offer them advice that can help them propel their careers forward. One of the many questions I often get asked is “With all the technological advancements taking place, read more
Enterprise Performance
Rethinking the Annual Budgeting Process
Human beings are creatures of habit. Once they have mastered certain habits, especially bad ones, it is extremely difficult to let go. Even though we are fully aware that the immediate, medium-term or long-term consequences of our bad behaviours are dire, we still cling unto them. Could this be because of our ignorance or maybe read more
Current State of Enterprise Risk Oversight
A recent publication, Global Risk Oversight, by North Carolina ERM Initiative, in partnership
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Savvy CFOs are Using Data Analytics to Mitigate Risks
Data analytics has shifted from being “just a fad” to a business necessity.
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Defining and Evaluating Business Risks
Having an effective enterprise risk management (ERM) program that helps to measure, monitor
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Increasing Finance’s Relevance to the Business
To remain successful and relevant to the business in today’s VUCA environment, Finance
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The Basics of Cyber Risk Management
New technologies, increasing digitization and globalization are transforming customer behaviors, operations and business
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Finance Should No Longer Maintain the Status Quo
The world around us has significantly changed and the rate at which this
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