IT’s Quest for Agility Overlooks the People
There are three main conditions that undermine a business function’s operational agility – cultural resistance to change, environmental complexity and,…
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Blog Insights
Quantifying the Finance Digital Opportunity
We’re finance people. And finance people like numbers. For many, a current pressing question is how to measure the dollars…
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Modernizing the Business Relationship Manager Role
IT’s business relationship manager is the spear tip of the function’s effort to be a strategic, valued partner to the…
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3 Ways Finance Can Accelerate Digital Transformation
The digital goal post continues to move forward rapidly, and finance must speed up its progress to catch up. The…
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Is Finance Efficiency a Zero-Sum Game?
Sometimes, when you fix something, you end up breaking something else. So, what will be the consequences of finance’s unrelenting…
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GBS: Executives Lose Sleep Over Talent Deficits
It was a packed room at the last breakout session on the future of the workforce at The Hackett Group’s…
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Finance Processes: To Standardize or Not to Standardize?
Even a couple of years ago, this would be a no-brainer. The accepted wisdom was that finance should become more…
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The Impact of Organizational Complexity on Finance Performance
Can digital transformation be the end-all solution for achieving world-class finance status? While it can have a huge impact on…
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When Transformation Is Too Much to Bear
With all the urgency and hype that propels the digital transformation vortex, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact…
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Project Management is a Critical Finance Digital Transformation Enabler
Progress toward digital transformation in finance and other business services functions trails that of digital top performers. The Hackett Group’s…
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Five Finance Transformation Success Factors
Ascendant digital technologies, concerns about a global recession and rising customer expectations are triggering a wave of finance transformation activity. A…
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US Manufacturing Sector Anticipates Sharp Sales and EPS Growth Decline in 2019
Guidance issued to date by US manufacturing companies during the Q4 2018 earnings release cycle points to a sharp decline…
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