Budgeting technique, central to plan to slash $1 billion in annual costs, ‘strikes fear in the hearts of some managers’. With insights from The Hackett Group’s Nilly Essaides.
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CIPHR.com (UK) “Eight key HR trends for 2019”
Between the introduction of gender pay gap reporting and the GDPR, and the myriad factors affecting individual organisations, 2018 has been a busy year for HR teams. And the profession is set to face an even greater variety of challenges in 2019: here are eight that our panel of experts have picked as the ones […]
Read ArticleDigitalist, “2019 CFO Priorities: Experts Predict Top Trends,”
We’ve all seen it coming: disruptions everywhere, from radical technology innovations to trade policies, taxation, Brexit, and supply chain risk. In 2018, the realities hit home as the ground beneath us began to shift – for good. How will the finance community adjust to deal with uncertainty, manage risk, and help their organizations stay ahead? […]
Read ArticleHR.com, “Improve your Payroll Process and Prepare for the Future”
With The Hackett Group’s Felicia Cheek. “The Hackett Group’s Global Payroll Performance Study captures data on a wide range of cost and productivity metrics. Key focus areas include organization, governance, service delivery, technology, data and analytics and talent. The 2018 study finds that payroll is becoming more efficient and improving its operations. However, at the […]
Read ArticleTreasury & Risk, “How to Make Your ‘Dash for Cash’ Sustainable,”
Seven steps for releasing cash before the end of the year, while establishing a healthy working capital management lifestyle for the long term. A bylined article by The Hackett Group’s Liselore Kolff.
Read ArticleWall Street Journal’s CFO Journal, “Corporates Step Up Brexit Planning Amid U.K. Political Turmoil”
Corporate decision makers at British and European companies are stepping up their preparations for a potentially disruptive Brexit amid deepening uncertainty over the U.K.’s future trading relationship with Europe. Featuring insights from The Hackett Group’s Paul Moody.
Read ArticleSpend Matters, “Year-end ‘Dash for Cash’ — 7 Steps to Free Up Funds Without Resorting to Tricks,”
It’s the end of the year, time for New Year’s Resolutions, a little vacation time and Christmas Party hijinks. But The Hackett Group, a business consultant and digital transformation specialist, is cautioning against year-end fiscal shenanigans, where money is shuffled around to make it appear that the company has hit the finish line in full […]
Read ArticleChefbüro (DACH): “World Class Procurement via Digitization “
In German. A recent study by The Hackett Group shows that world-class purchasing functions require 21% less labor, employ 29% fewer salaried employees, but are far more effective and powerful than companies in the average peer group. Overall, world-class companies with a turnover of around ten billion euros save more than five million euros a […]
Read ArticleCFO Webcast, “How to Build a Finance Team of the Future,”
A Webcast featuring The Hackett Group’s Jeff Nourie & Matt Gehr. “As companies devote increasing attention to automating tasks that traditionally have been the domain of finance, CFOs are taking on greater responsibility for raising the value of their finance teams to their companies. Instead of relying on manual processes to generate financial reports, the […]
Read ArticleCFO Webcast, “How CFOs Can Improve Sales Forecast Accuracy with Simulation and Machine Learning”
Webcast with The Hackett Group’s Vin Kumar. “Does your finance team perceive sales forecasts to be exercises in wishful thinking? Traditional approaches to sales forecasting rely on manual methods that are too slow, too limited in scope, too outdated, and, as a result, too inaccurate to be of any value for planning for the future. […]
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