david, HP - Operational Efficiency, Operational Efficiency
Are you a B2B company that sells software or goods and services to businesses, and needs to break out from a lull or even stagnation in your growth and hit your stride? Here are key questions to ask yourself to ensure you keep the momentum going, solidly gain...
HP - Program Management, jean-christophe, Program Management
When millions of dollars of business value and optimization depend on one process, leaders better care for that process. In this article, we’ll view Requests for Proposals (RFP) from the demand perspective – the company that places the Request for Proposal. RFPs are...
andy, consultants, Finance Transformation, IT excellence
Shared services are when a business consolidates its support functions to better serve the corporation and its business units. Typically, this includes services such as human resources, finance and accounting, information technology, and other front and back-office...
consultants, Finance Transformation, HP - Program Management, IT excellence, jean-christophe, Operational Efficiency, Program Management
You have just been hired to perform the work as a consultant. The first meeting with your client is starting; this is the time to begin your engagement. First and foremost, I would recommend not behaving as an employee who might wait for their “boss” to...
carole, Finance Transformation, HP - Finance Transformation
Master data is the core data used across your enterprise, for instance: customers, vendors, items, and chart of accounts. They are non-transactional, which means they should not change over a period of time. Everyone agrees that master data is important and should be...
andy, HP - IT Excellence, IT excellence
Welcome to part IV of my five-step approach to finding the financial waste in your IT budget. Part IV is not for the faint of heart. Building an IT Service cost capability will require time, effort, skills not typically found in IT organizations and a strong...
