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eBook: Streamline your business operational process

Jennene Kelly — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 00:23:55 +0000

You don’t need a software vendor to tell you the most effective ways to combat intense competition and grow sustainably: Find new ways to manufacture innovative products faster, improve your business processes, and reduce costs.

“Move forward.”

Discover these three technology trends that can help you overcome today’s top four industry challenges.

Table of contents:
Move forward. Move beyond ERP
Today’s top four manufacturing challenges
Three technologies that will revolutionise your manufacturing process

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Whitepaper: CFO 3.0 – Digital Transformation beyond Financial Management

Jennene Kelly — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 23:07:35 +0000

The world of business is changing at a rapid pace. And for the finance department, that sentiment couldn’t be clearer. As we move to a digitised world, CFOs and finance teams are being required to move away from basic tasks such as manually inputting numbers and reporting on the figures. Now, when it comes to financial management, they are moving to interpreting real-time data.

However, the next step is to become a visionary within their businesses. But what does that mean for you as a CFO and how can you make that a reality for your role and your company?

The CFO 3.0 is expected to be a visionary, using and analysing data to predict the future direction of the organisation, uncover hidden opportunities and close.

This is a new guide that looks at the evolution of the chief financial officer.

Table of contents

Executive summary

Beyond the boom line – Forces driving industry change

Digitalisation of the industry
Number cruncher to business strategist
Millennials driving digital transformation

What’s keeping CFOs up at night

Roadblocks to digital transformation
Harnessing technology
Talent gap
Fraud and cybersecurity

Riding the tech wave

Alignment of culture and tech strategy
Focus on higher-value activities

Conclusion

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Modern Software Project Management

Jennene Kelly — Thu, 16 May 2019 02:33:35 +0000

Any major project impacting core systems is not something to take lightly. While the cloud has democratised access to great software, evaluating, selecting and implementing it into organisations takes specialist skills and the right approach.

This webinar provides you with practical advice on setting your project up for success.

Our panel of experts share their experience across multiple projects, industries and software solutions to help you guide your project establishment.

If you are embarking on a software modernisation project, you will learn:

Why best practise may not be right practice
How to resolve the scope-cost-risk jam
Tips to ensure the best software is selected
When to trust and when to control

Panellists:

Jamon Johnston
CEO at Solution Minds Consulting. Jamon founded SMC in 2006 and has built it up into an A/NZ consulting business providing 100% independent advice and consulting around enterprise software strategy, selection and implementation, as well as business process improvement for mid-large sized organisations. SMC has successfully completed 250+ improvement projects and transformations.

Eric Kimberling
Eric is the CEO and founder of Third Stage Consulting, and was founding director of Panorama Consulting. Eric has built a global profile through his thought leadership in ERP, HCM and CRM system implementation established from giving unbiased advice to clients for over 20 years. Eric is a published author and expert court witness.

Fiona Brown
Fiona is a Project Manager at Sage Software with over 10 years’ experience at the coalface successfully delivering Sage Implementation Projects for HR, Payroll and ERP systems on behalf of clients both locally and overseas.

Thanks to our event sponsor Sage Software

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Building Trust into your Data

Jennene Kelly — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 02:38:04 +0000

Demand for analytics across all business functions is growing exponentially.

Sophisticated reporting and analytics tools are in the hands of business users, while the volume of data from multiple sources has exploded.

Now, the problem is one of trust.

Can users trust their reporting enough to collaborate and make decisions?

To build trust, good data governance is required.

Our panel of experts talk about:

How your system of record can underpin a strong data ecosystem
The way modern business management systems are enabling analysis across multiple datasets — from systems of record to real-time sensors, machine intelligence, unstructured data and 3^rd party cloud-based sources
How to curate data structures to deliver robust, reliable analysis without compromising agility
The three imperatives to a successful data strategy

Speakers:

Jason Sharpe – Lead Consultant at Analytics8
Jason has 30+ years experience across the full spectrum of data strategy, architecture and operations from consulting to client-side delivery.

Mike Parsons – Partner at Datamine
Mike has deep domain experience having led Datamine customers through the challenges of improving their data & analytics capability for nearly 10 years.

Anne-Marie Keogh – BMS expert at Sage Australia
Anne-Marie represents the client voice in assessing the power of new technology. She is expert at distilling business value out of the technical possibilities offered by data and analytics.

Thanks to our event sponsor Sage Software

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