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In Field testing via Crowd Sourcing

Dheeraj Sharma, Global Competence Leader, Quality Assurance & Testing Practice | Jun-14-13

Organizations are prioritizing the building of new applications and customizing old ones to suit the myriad of mobile platforms that now are available to access them. The standard SDLC processes now need to accommodate a key step. That of ensuring the compatibility of these new avatars with ....

Categories: Cloud Solutions

Tags: crowd sourcing, crowd testing, application testing services, software testing solutions, web service testing tool, product testing process, product testing labs

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Unlocking Value Through Financial Planning and Analysis Operating Model Redesign

Kinnar Sanjanwala, Assistant Vice President – R2R Practice | Jun-03-13

In this uncertain business environment, there is increased expectation from the finance function to provide meaningful insights that help safeguard the business and help achieve competitive advantage. CFOs are also under pressure to reduce the Total Cost to Serve (TCO) and thus cannot easily incre....

Categories: Finance and Accounting

Tags: CFOs, FP&A Operating model, FP&A, Financial Planning & Analysis, Business Planning Organization

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Lessons from Pharmaceuticals Industry: Metrics, data and productivity-driven innovation

Ahmed Mazhari , SVP Sales & Marketing Europe | May-29-13

A few weeks ago I joined Jonathan Symonds, at that time, the Novartis CFO, and a group of distinguished guests in Zurich for a briefing conducted by Finance Director Europe (FDE), a forum for finance senior executives. Novartis is a long-time Genpact client, and interactions between our two or....

Categories: Innovation

Tags: innovation, Novartis, Pharma, Lifesciences, Pharma cashflow, procurement process, data, metrics, business metrics

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Good, Cheap, Fast – they say you can have any two.

Gianni Giacomelli, Senior Vice President – Product Innovation | May-23-13

In the recent SSON gathering in Melbourne, Australia, Tom Bangemann of Hackett pulled up a slide with the old sign below. His – quite witty indeed - point was that we internal and external clients must be conscious of limitations of business process operations. The bigger question is if glo....

Categories: Innovation

Tags: CXO, GBS, Finance, Model

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Rethinking two fundamentals of a smarter collections process

Khalid A. Siddiqui, European OTC Practice Leader | May-17-13

We all know the business maxim "you can't manage what you can't measure." This is perhaps no truer than when companies are thinking about the effectiveness of their collections process. Two fundamentals come into play when companies decide move to the next level in collections excellence: the metric....

Categories: Finance and Accounting

Tags: OTC, DSO, collections effectiveness index, CSI

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