Why AR automation solutions are like dogs

But it is often a neglected process that relies on manual checking, haphazard follow-up and 1:1 issue resolution.

Modern collections automation tools can transform your collections performance while improving staff morale and productivity.

Which is why they can be a bit like your best companion.

This webinar will help you:

• Rate your current AR performance against benchmarks
• Identify key areas to focus on
• Outline how automation systems work
• Understand whether your environment is ready for automation
• Learn why automation solutions are like dogs!

Speakers:

 

Scott Walkinshaw – CFO, Freo Crane Hire
Scott is a seasoned CFO with several years’ experience working in the heavy industrial mining sector in WA. At Freo he has overseen a transformation of the finance department helping boost team performance and morale.

 

 

 

Eric Maisonhaute – Director AR Solutions, Esker A/NZ
Eric is a trusted advisor who balances technical depth with business nous. With over 20 years international experience, he has architected solutions for multiple AR teams from SME to complex multi-national.

 

 

 

Hayden McCall – Facilitator
Hayden brings experience as a software selection consultant, tech sector analyst and IT programme manager to host the webinar, facilitating the panel discussion and moderating audience interaction.

 

 

Thanks to our event sponsor

Redesigning your organisation to deliver change and innovation with the agility of cloud-native disruptors is not easy.

For many, lift and shift feels more like one step forwards and two back.

We’ve assembled a panel of experts with deep skills and experience in enterprise cloud migration to help you accelerate the journey.

Register now to learn:

• Lessons from one of Australia’s largest Insurance-as-a-Platform initiatives
• Why a ‘two-in-a-box’ approach helps you modernise with confidence
• How to achieve tangible success with your cloud migration
• Why investing in cloud platforms is a vital component in launching digital products

Saj Arachchillage, Senior Client Strategist at Jade Software, uses the analogy of a ski jump when he talks about the move to cloud and embracing enterprise DevOps. Read the full article Taking the ski jump to DevOps and cloud success

Our guests:

 

Hinesh Chauhan – GM Technology Delivery, TAL Insurance, Sydney
After a long career with Macquarie Group, Hinesh is driving a major digital transformation for one of Australia’s largest life insurers, TAL. He is a strong advocate for establishing the right organisational capabilities and structure as a foundation for successful technology delivery.

 

 

Matt Howell – GM Platform Delivery, TAL Insurance, Sydney
Matt is all over platforms.

Hired by TAL in 2018 to establish its digital platforms he rose to now head up the team and drive TAL’s Insurance as a Platform strategic initiatives.

 

 

Justin Mercer – GM Australia, Jade Software, Sydney
Justin spearheads Jade’s Australian operations across sales, account management, marketing, and delivery. His partnering philosophy has built a reputation for adding tremendous value to clients’ businesses.

 

 

Thanks to our event sponsor

Every business needs to account for its sales and purchases. It is a fundamental requirement of being in business. But what about inventory, online sales, global distribution?

Knowing when to move on from accounting to business management software can be a critical decision to drive your next stage of growth.

This webinar will help you recognise when your accounting software is holding you back and how your business can capitalise on the benefits of having an integrated management solution.

Listen to learn:

• Tell-tale signs your company is outgrowing its accounting system
• The reasons separate systems create hidden headaches
• How ERP improves management of processes
• Why Cloud ERP opens doors to new markets

Our panel will share their diverse experiences to help you move forward.

Speakers:

 

Richard Ward – Market Intelligence Lead, NetSuite JAPAC.
Richard is responsible for the development and execution of the NetSuite competitive strategy and supporting tactical initiatives across JAPAC.

 

 

Ben Irving – Chief Operating Officer, Mons Royale
At Mons Royale, Ben has driven the transition from running five instances of Xero to an integrated ERP solution across sourcing, warehousing, distribution, retail and e-commerce. He will share the pain of managing rapid growth and complexity and what it took to introduce better systems.

 

 

Rob McKie – Partner/Executive Director, Pitcher Partners
Rob is responsible for developing and managing a team of professional IT Advisors across Picher Partner’s Australia-wide mid-market client base. Rob brings sound strategic, technical and operational skills, honed over more than 30 years including 18 years running his own consulting business.

 

Thanks to our event sponsor Oracle NetSuite

All the historical data and analytics capability in the world still leaves the question of “So what?”

To allocate tight budgets, you need tools that convert operational insights into foresight and help build plans to underpin decisions.

Listen to this webinar to learn how to:

• Introduce agility and operational relevance into your planning processes
• Update and track actual results inside plan revisions
• Remove the pain of Excel hell and focus instead on planning for business improvement
• Modernise your planning function with integrated forecasting and budgeting tools

If planning and budgeting is a pain point for your organisation, watch this webinar to begin planning for success, or forward to your S&OP or FP&A manager.

We assembled a group of financial and operational planning experts for this online panel discussion – refer below for panellists.

WATCH NOW => no registration required: Modernise Your Planning and Budgeting.

Speakers:

Marty Engel​ – Partner at Deloitte

Marty’s career spans over 20 years from public accounting to consulting and various technology-centred business transformations. A specialist in performance management, he has advised multiple cloud software migrations across major banks, utility providers and national airlines.

 

Shawn Burriss – Finance Mgr, EML

Shawn has run the finance operation for ASX-listed EML payments for the past 6 years, championing the role of finance across Australian, European and American regions to align FP&A processes in line with the company’s overarching strategic vision.

 

Khaled Chowdhury – FP&A Advisory Council​

As a specialist in FP&A, Khaled is on the FP&A Advisory Council, part of the global Association of Finance Professionals. Currently Finance Director for Analytics & BI for Cabot Electronics in Singapore, he is a passionate advocate for modern planning and analysis techniques.

 

Thanks to our event sponsor Oracle NetSuite

For many, closing the gap between dreams and reality has proved challenging.

Taking the right steps towards your vision takes courage, conviction and drive. It also often reveals foundational gaps that need addressing first.

Join this webinar to learn:

• Successful digitalisation strategies
• Ways that automation can deliver differentiation
• Examples where innovation has failed and why
• How to look beyond technology to make progress

Matthew Addley, industry solution strategist at Infor, will make the case for modern enterprise software as a foundational toolset for digital transformation. Our panel will respond with their experiences and perspective.

This webinar is an engaging session.

Speakers:

 

Matthew Addley – Senior Principal, Industry & Solution Strategy, Infor​. As a strategic technology evangelist with over 25 years of global experience, Matthew has helped create and re-engineer digital strategy across multiple manufacturing, distribution and asset intensive enterprises.  Matthew is a business focused technology professional  with a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from The University of Manchester – the home of the first stored-program computer.

Brett Perkins – Chief Operations Officer, Cellnet​. Brett brings over 16 years of experience in executive, operational and commercial management roles across supply chain & logistics, ICT, manufacturing, banking and finance. When the choice is to disrupt rather than be disrupted, Brett draws on his skills sewing together people, process and technology learned through a diverse background in ICT development and delivery. He is uniquely positioned to enable organisations to exploit business opportunities digitally.

 

 

Derek Lyons – Executive Director, The Practitioners. Derek distils problems to their core components – then identifies ways to solve them. He’s direct, detailed and dogged. Having managed large teams within public and private organisations, he understands the complexities and competing agendas that can impact programmes of work.

 

Thanks to our event sponsor Infor

Enterprise Resource Planning systems come with a significant price tag.

How do you know you are, or will, get a return on the investment you’ve made?

Benefits such as process efficiency gains, improvements in customer service or ‘single source of the truth’ sound great, but are difficult to measure.

Listen to this webinar to learn from a panel of ERP value experts how to:

1. Establish metrics to provide measurable KPI benchmarks
2. Uncover where system automation is saving labour costs
3. Recognise the tell-tale signs that your ERP is not performing
4. Evaluate business cases for ERP investment

Speakers:

 

Marty Engel – Partner at Deloitte Australia
Marty’s career spans over 20 years from public accounting to consulting and various technology-centred business transformations.

A specialist in performance management, he has advised multiple cloud software migrations across major banks, utility providers and national airlines.

 

Rob Eldridge – Value Consultant at Oracle NetSuite​
Rob has more than two decades of business & technology consulting experience including specialist skills in value consulting – or the science of value measurement. Rob has delivered strategic value consulting for large enterprise and mid-market clients across all industry verticals.

 

Thanks to our event sponsor Oracle NetSuite

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

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

How to give people exactly what they want without creating inefficiency, waste and delays in making it?

Ford’s mantra was to deliver his customers low cost, reliable vehicles, ‘as long as they were black’.

Today, the low cost and reliability are a given, but ‘I’ll take mine in electric blue, with the big exhaust, racks and tan leather please’.

It’s a dilemma wrapped up in a term called advanced manufacturing where, ultimately, customer-specific orders drive manufacturing orders, without driving the price up.

Our panel of leading industrial manufacturers talks about:

1. The main challenges they face in matching production with demand
2. What advanced manufacturing means to them
3. The technology they are using or piloting to help deliver on customer demands
4. What they see the future has in store

Panellists:

Keiran Stokes – Facteon
Keiran Stokes is Industrial IoT Solutions Architect for F&P subsidiary Facteon. Keiran plays a crucial role driving Facteon’s Industry 4.0 and IoT initiatives, and selectively implementing highly innovative data solutions into intelligent factories across the globe.

 

 

Simon Boyd – Hamilton Jet
Simon Boyd is CFO at marine propulsion manufacturers Hamilton Jet, and takes the lead in all business systems improvements. In his role Simon oversees the financial implications of getting production and inventory mis-matched, and takes an active role in balancing customer orders and global supply chain demands.

 

 

Reinaldo Silva – Facteon
Reinaldo is Facteon’s Software Products Manager. He is the go-to man when it comes to the commercialisation of Industrial IoT and Industry 4.0 digital products.

 

 

Hayden McCall — iStart technology in business
Hayden is managing director of iStart and will host the webinar, facilitating the panel discussion and moderating audience interaction.

 

 

Thanks to our event sponsor Cincom

Today, every company across A/NZ recognises the importance of running an agile, adaptive, and customer-centric business – one that can support any revenue model, meet customer expectations, and drive innovation.

The cloud offers every business the opportunity to use sophisticated business tools that were previously available only to the largest organisations.

Open your eyes to modern cloud computing by listening to our panel of cloud experts who discuss the transformational benefits of cloud computing.

Learn why:

• One customer record across systems improves customer experience
• Legacy CRM/ERP systems may be holding your business back
• New pricing and packaging models are key capabilities
• Operational visibility in real-time can help your business become more data-centric and predictive
• Cloud transforms IT from an operational cost to a strategic capability

Panel:

Brendan Connolly – Managing Director of the Cloud First team at Accenture Sydney
Tony Braden – CIO & Director at IntegraPay
Simon Peterson – A/NZ MD for FinancialForce

Thanks to our event sponsor FinancialForce.

Selection of an ERP solution is possibly the most important decision a business can make.

The options seem endless, the costs are significant, and the longer a decision is delayed the more the business suffers.

Watch this webinar to learn from our panel of experts who have been involved with evaluation and implementation projects across multiple sites and industries, and know what works, and what can be career limiting.

Panellists:

Jamon Johnston
MD at Solution Minds Consulting, Jamon has over 200 selection and implementation projects under his belt. He has built his A/NZ consulting business on providing independent, authoritative advice on software selection, specialising in mid-market ERP evaluation.
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Steve Skinner
CFO at the Centre of Excellence for Netsuite Australia, Steve takes an agnostic approach to solving customers’ problems drawing on extensive experience in both consulting and CFO roles across several organisations.

Matt Dalton
A partner at Deloitte, Matt is passionate about technology and the impact it can have on people, their lives and their businesses.

 

Thanks to our event sponsor Oracle NetSuite

No longer are project managers the custodians of rigid scope, tightly defined tasks and linear Gantt charts.

To compete, organisations need to deliver change at speed and project managers must adapt to ensure goals are aligned and outputs are delivered.

This webinar provides insights into:

1. What modern project management is and why it delivers better outcomes
2. The role of the modern project manager
3. How project managers can maintain control and focus as scope, time and resources change
4. How professional services automation helps optimise task, time, resource allocation and billing in modern project environments.

Panel:
Owen McCall – An experienced consultant and CIO, ex-partner at Deloitte and ex-CIO at The Warehouse. He is passionate about delivering change through transformative projects, and recently released his book “High Performance IT”.
Ken Standfield – Founder of Time Cost Wastage. He specialises in measuring and eradicating waste in enterprise resource allocation.
Simon Peterson – A/NZ MD for FinancialForce. In previous roles for Salesforce and SAP he has managed sales strategy, consulting strategy and been a project manager. Simon brings insights into the art of selling professional services around delivery.

Thanks to our event sponsor FinancialForce.

The world of paper-based, error prone, and rigid processes does not work in today’s digital first B2B world. From CPQ to personalised e-commerce, B2B sales are changing, and fast.

Buyers are swimming in infinite pools of content and information, but traditional processes are disconnected from their needs and expectations.

Less than 10 percent of B2B buyers feel like the sellers they work with know their business and are equipped to solve their problems. And with just over 11 percent of US B2B sales transacted online*, the opportunity to transform the buyer experience is huge.

Our panel of B2B experts explore the digitisation of B2B sales and how to drive more personalised and contextual buying and selling experiences.

This webinar covered how to:

• introduce digital capability to enhance established relationships and processes
• create a digital framework to improve solution selling
• extend existing systems to automate sales proposals and establish B2B e-commerce channels

This webinar will suit any B2B-centric business and be relevant for roles from CEO & CIO to CMO and Sales Managers or any analyst or technical roles involved with digital transformation initiatives.

The Panelists:

James Gilbert – CEO at The Solutionists	Elle Bell – Customer & Channels Senior Manager, Accenture	Ben Cook – National Sales Director at Microchannel

 

*Forrester B2B e-commerce Playbook 2018

Thanks to our event sponsor Cincom CPQ

This is a big year for CFOs. Amidst the continued pressure to deliver innovative, services-driven business models to support growth targets, the modern financial leader will play an important, evolving role in 2018. The most important interface with your investors, the CFO has quickly become a key force in supporting business strategy and growth.

While managing the fundamentals of the finance department, the modern CFO must simultaneously look towards the future in order to sustain the success of their organisations.

This webinar covered the top imperatives for CFOs in 2018:

• Forecasting and predictive insights: How the modern CFO can lead the charge on business model agility and predictability
• Operational efficiencies: Why CFOs are investing in new technology for benefits beyond workplace productivity
• Business growth: How the CFO is rethinking end-to-end processes to support business goals typically owned by sales and marketing
• Compliance, compliance, compliance: How finance teams are leveraging AASB 15 / NZ IFRS 15 as a catalyst to modernise revenue processes

Speakers:

Robert Samuel – Partner, Grant Thornton Australia
Specialising in technology-led growth, Robert has over 25 years experience in international business and tech, working across financial services, trade and FMCG.

Scott Taylor – Independent consultant, ex Partner EY & Deloitte
Scott has more than 30 years experience in the field of technology and finance solutions, transformation programs and running advisory and technology consulting businesses.

Philip Barnes – CFO Insight
With 25+ years and over 50 clients under his belt, Philip draws on coal face insights to deliver practical advice on improving financial management for business success.

Thanks to our event sponsor FinancialForce.

With literally thousands of software options available, finding the option that best fits your business can be difficult, time-consuming and risky.

Join us online for this practical hour-long event and arm yourself with guiding principles that will pay dividends in helping your business grow and be more efficient.

Gain insights into:

• Signs that your software is holding you back
• How to balance simple usability against complex requirements
• Common pitfalls in shortlisting solutions and why an RFP may not be the answer
• Why you should treat software as an investment, not a cost
• ‘Best & worst’ lessons from real world examples

Join our panel of local software selection and implementation experts to discuss the challenge of finding the right software.

The panelists:

Rob McKie is Partner/Executive Director at Pitcher Partners in Melbourne. He is also “Partner In Charge of IT”. He is responsible for developing and managing a team professional IT Advisors across their mid-market client base.

Hamish Bowen is Partner, IT Audit & Advisory and Grant Thornton in Wellington. His focus is on governance and management of technology and technology change, including technology selection and evaluation through to implementation.

Joanne Hand is General Manager for mid-market solutions at Realtech. Auckland-based, she is responsible for a team of consultants implementing mid-tier ERP solutions.

Ross Gilchrist is Managing Director of Melbourne-based Inecom Technology Partners. He manages an expert team of consultants implementing a range of technology solutions.

Companies are increasingly moving from selling products, to selling services.

Being able to buy things as a service or subscription is not only accepted, it is becoming the preference – GE has famously re-invented itself, instead of selling jet engines and wind turbines, it offers these items as a service.

At the consumer end of town, Dollar Shave Club, Trunk Club and Amazon Prime all show the value of building a direct and ongoing relationship between suppliers and consumers.

Learn from Ben the answers to questions such as:

1. Do businesses across A/NZ have to worry about this trend or are we insulated from this broader move?

2. What do organisations need to think about to ensure they remain competitive in the new service economy?

Industry analyst Ben Kepes’s presentation and Q&A session with iStart’s Hayden McCall set the scene and get us all thinking about what the future holds.

Thanks to our event sponsor FinancialForce.

As organisations begin to embrace their digital customers, they are starting to transform into digital businesses themselves. In order to achieve this, they need to master both the digital customer experience and digital operational excellence. In this webinar, our guest speakers Tim Sheedy from Forrester Research, and Stephen Irecki from Interactive Intelligence in Sydney help technology leaders understand how they can help their companies transform into digital businesses. Specifically they will help you understand:

• What are the top initiatives that CIOs are making to transform into digital businesses?
• Why cloud computing is the foundation of digital operational excellence.
• How cloud computing is helping technology leaders drive improved business agility and better customer outcomes.

No matter what your business, there is a competitive offering that is more attuned to the needs of the customer, more convenient to engage with and better set up for serving digital clients. And they are out to attract your customers.

Ethan Nyholm operates in a market where disruption literally lurks in every alley, online or otherwise.

In this webinar Ethan talks about important factors in the disruption journey such as:
1. How to keep up with new technology, including emerging cloud-based solutions
2. Approaches to justifying technology investments
3. Ways to minimise the risk of IT projects
4. Tips to successfully introduce new technology to employees and customers

Ethan will share the journey he has taken to be the disruptor not the disrupted.

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The business world has changed. The cloud is rapidly introducing new software solutions and the business, not IT, is leading the charge with digital transformation.

Businesses must prioritise their online channels and move quickly. Selecting the best software accelerates the process, but to be successful it needs to be done well.

Vittoria Anderson (CPA, CMA) has been involved in nearly a dozen business technology led transformations. She will share what she’s learned such as:

1. How to avoid underestimating the scope of transformation.
2. Why re-designing something you don’t truly understand adds risk and cost.
3. Why you should check your ambitions against budget, time and resources.
4. How to overcome barriers to moving to cloud-based solutions.

Thanks to event sponsor NetSuite: