Blogs: Business

Runaway Spreadsheets and Renegade Users

Anoop Lalla, Vice President, Practice Leader, Enterprise Application Services – Business Intelligence and Data Services | May-13-13

Spreadsheets are still the most ubiquitous BI fixture in any organization around the world. Depending on the stakeholder you have these discussions with there is always a different view of this problem: spreadsheets being labeled as either life savers or renegade. This leads to the....

Categories: Organization Effectiveness

Tags: IT, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, BI

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Turbo-Charging Supplier Segmentation with Business Process Management

Advait Rahalkar, Assistant Vice President, Supply chain Practice, Genpact | Dec-10-12

Recognizing greater supply chain complexity and the potential impact of robust supplier management on the bottom line, it's no surprise that companies are deeply committed to supplier segmentation. The catch is, segmentation does not always lead to the desired results—and business process mana....

Categories: Organization Effectiveness

Tags: Business Process Management, BPM, Summply Chain Management

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Wrong innovation organization? You’re toast.

Gianni Giacomelli, Senior Vice President – Product Innovation | Nov-27-12

A recent McKinsey survey identified some pretty telling experiences made by companies worldwide…and the results confirm that half-hearted is FULLY doomed. The main sound bites are The most important success factor is the extent to which innovation is integrated in corporate strategy a....

Categories: Innovation

Tags: Business, Innovation, Function, CFO

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The Future of Finance: New Skills for New Demands

Shantanu Ghosh, Senior Vice President for Practices, Solutions and Transitions, Genpact | Nov-22-12

The Finance function plays a critical and irreplaceable role in understanding the entire flow of business within an enterprise, its leverage and pulse points. In this tight, rapidly-changing economy, that knowledge is critical to keeping companies competitive. Because Finance is the only department ....

Categories: Finance and Accounting, Organization Effectiveness

Tags: CIMA, Finance, Business

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Leveraging Intelligence to drive Performance

Sanjay Srivastava, CEO, Akritiv Technologies, a Genpact Company | Nov-02-12

It’s not uncommon to think of finance operations as part of the back office. Stakeholders regularly get excited about sales forecasts and revenue trends but rarely get as animated about days sales outstanding (DSO) behavior, working capital forecasts and credit risk exposures. Unlike revenue f....

Categories: Organization Effectiveness

Tags: Business, Performance

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