Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Insights paper March 15, 2024 Strategic Sourcing: Gaining Advantage, Mitigating Risk A shift in mindset to a strategic sourcing strategy anticipates and mitigates supply chain risk while improving resilience and responsiveness, still aiming to reduce total cost of ownership. Newsletter January 12, 2023 The Top Risks for 2023: A Global View The global survey of C-level executives and directors, focused on macroeconomic, strategic and operational risks, highlights the influence of the economy, people and culture issues, supply chain risks, and technology impacts on the 2023 risk landscape. The survey was conducted online in the September — October 2022 time frame to capture perspectives on 38 risks on the minds of business leaders as… Podcast June 30, 2023 Cost Optimisation in Manufacturing – with Shawn Seasongood and Andrea Vardaro Thomas Well, it looks like a recession is coming. Or maybe it's not. Or maybe it is. It seems like it's been a long wait for the other economic shoe to drop. And in the meantime, many questions are arising around managing costs in organisations. CFOs and finance leaders continue to have a lot of questions, and get even more from their internal stakeholders and customers, about projections, cost… Podcast Transcript June 29, 2023 Transcript | Cost Optimisation in Manufacturing – with Shawn Seasongood and Andrea Vardaro Thomas Well, it looks like a recession is coming. Or maybe it's not. Or maybe it is. It seems like it's been a long wait for the other economic shoe to drop. And in the meantime, many questions are arising around managing costs in organisations. CFOs and finance leaders continue to have a lot of questions, and get even more from their internal stakeholders and customers, about projections, cost… Whitepaper January 29, 2024 Integrating ESG Risks Into Credit Assessment: A Practical Perspective for Banks Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) risk has emerged as a critical consideration for the banking and financial industry. Financial institutions face a range of ESG risks, including climate change, governance issues, and social inequalities. It is essential to adeptly manage these risks to ensure long-term sustainability and minimise potential financial losses. Insights paper January 8, 2024 How data sovereignty and data localisation impact your privacy programmes The concepts of data sovereignty and data localisation stem from a desire to keep data within a country’s borders for greater control. While the broad strokes of various privacy laws may be consistent across jurisdictions, governments will dictate the collection, storage and interpretation of their citizens’ data through constantly evolving privacy regulations.The legislative bodies that write… Client Story March 30, 2022 Journey to the Microsoft Cloud: Global financial services institution modernizes and protects data assets with Microsoft 365 Faced with the technical, compliance and data security challenges of launching Microsoft 365 across their global enterprise, a large financial services and investment institution needed to successfully deploy Microsoft 365 to its 30,000 employees while ensuring governance, compliance and data security. Because of the size and complexity of their firm, the financial institution had concerns with… Survey November 6, 2024 2024 Technology, Media and Telecommunications Finance Priorities Discover how TMT Finance Priorities are shifting towards AI, cost optimisation, and robust data security in the digital age. Survey May 9, 2023 Technical Debt and Innovation – the CFO’s Perspective Organisations today spend an average of 30% of their IT budgets and invest a fifth of their IT human resources on technical debt management. This research, based on a global survey of more than 1,000 CIOs, CTOs and other technology leaders, underscores the burden created by technical debt and likely is an eye-opener for the CFO.[1] As organisations strive to increase their focus, and time and… Podcast September 10, 2024 Podcast | Transform: Assessing CFO and finance leader perspectives and priorities for the coming year – with Chris Wright and Nick Puetz A look at the top priorities for CFOs and finance leaders in the coming year — among them, security and privacy of data, financial and strategic planning and analysis, leadership, and enhanced data analytics — reveals a tale of transformation for CFOs whose responsibilities continue to widen. Load More