Telecom’s procurement unit cut costs and boosted efficiency by handing tracking and analysis to robots. Featuring insights from The Hackett Group’s Vin Kumar.
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CFO, “Working Capital Scorecard: The Hard Part of Boosting Liquidity,”
With payables stretched to the limit, wringing more cash out of working capital will be a challenge. What CFO doesn’t want working capital to generate cash rather than consume it? To not have to answer pesky analyst questions about lower quarterly cash levels? To not have to draw on a line of credit because customers […]
Read ArticleCFO Webcast, “How Finance Leaders Enable Their Companies to Achieve Maturity Through Digital Transformation,”
Featuring The Hackett Group’s Tom Willman. “Within many companies, finance teams have established reputations for narrowly focusing on reducing costs and reporting on the past. But to prepare their companies for the future, finance leaders will need to rethink what skills they seek from and develop within their finance teams…”
Read ArticleWall Street Journal, “Biggest U.S. Companies’ Working-Capital Performance Hits Six-Year High”
Inventories fall for the 1,000 largest public companies, a study by The Hackett Group finds. Tariffs Trigger Working Capital Woes For Some Companies. Inventories tie up cash as companies rush to bring goods across the border ahead of higher duties
Read ArticleCFO WEBCAST – 6/21 1:30-3 E – “How Finance Leaders Establish FP&A as a Center of Analytical Excellence,”
With The Hackett Group’s Sherri Liao. “The traditional role of the finance team has long been to report a company’s previous financial results, as well as prepare budgets and forecasts based on previous results. But now that finance teams are taking on increasing responsibility for preparing their companies for the future, and especially for financial […]
Read ArticleSpendMatters, “Workers’ Digital Skills Gap a Key Challenge for Businesses, The Hackett Group Says,”
Digital transformation has and will continue to have far-reaching consequences in manufacturing, purchasing, compliance, advertising and just about every other function in the business world. Another function to add to the list, according to the April 2019 Hackett Group study, will be hiring and training of existing and incoming employees.
Read ArticleDigitalist, “Sizing The Prize: The Digital Finance Advantage,”
Bylined article by The Hackett Group’s Nilly Essaides. “Everywhere we look, we see finance experimenting with and deploying smart automation solutions, like intelligent data capture, cognitive computing, and robotic process automation (RPA). Finance executives tell us they expect that digital transformation will have a dramatic impact on their performance, their operating model, and their skills […]
Read ArticleHR Dive, “How to wrangle the ‘wild west’ of collaboration tech,”
With more communication and productivity tools on the market and more to come, how does a discerning employer sort through them all? Collaboration tools of all kind have flooded the market — but whether they help an employer communicate or hinder productivity depends on the application type and how a team interacts with it. “Whenever […]
Read ArticleSpend Matters (UK) – “2019 Key Issues Study: Procurement Needs Improvements In Analytics, Skills Alignment, SRM, Agility & Customer-Centricity”
Last month The Hackett Group released its Procurement Key Issues research, highlighting procurement’s critical development priorities for 2019. It identifies analytical capabilities, aligning skills and talent with business needs, leveraging supplier relationships, enhancing agility, and achieving true customer-centricity as the main areas for improvement.
Read ArticleThe Hackett Group Names Bayer & IBM 2019 Digital Award Winners; Companies on the Cutting Edge of Smart Automation, Robotic Process Automation, Cognitive Computing and Analytics
Four Finalists Also Named: HCL/Manchester United, HP, IBM, and Indecomm MIAMI & LONDON, June 7, 2019 – The Hackett Group (NASDAQ: HCKT) today announced that Bayer and IBM are the winners of its 2019 Digital Awards, which spotlight companies that are on the cutting edge of digital transformation, including smart automation, robotic process automation (RPA), […]
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