Blogs: 2012-1

Choosing the Optimal Global Service Delivery Model

Shantanu Ghosh, Senior Vice President for Practices, Solutions and Transitions, Genpact | Jan-28-12

In the first wave of business process globalization, corporations in the developed world took advantage of the concept of getting transactional work done cheaply in emerging markets. The whole model was based on cost arbitrage and driven by connectivity and the acknowledgement and understanding of l....

Categories: C Suite, Organization Effectiveness

Tags: Financial Planning, Globalization, CFO

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Faster Business Insights in Turbulent Times

Vivek Saxena, Vice President, Record to Report Practice and SEP Leader | Jan-16-12

Why must I wait until the 15th to see my actual business performance for the past month? For many business leaders, this is a familiar lament. Despite spending millions of dollars on the latest Business Intelligence (BI) tools, many organizations have not yet achieved the desired insights. Heavy IT ....

Categories: Finance and Accounting, Organization Effectiveness

Tags: Analytics, Finance, Financial Planning

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Unlocking the Potential of Performance Management Improvement Projects

John McMahan, VP, Global F&A Practice Leader | Jan-10-12

The need for effective performance management has never been greater. Unfortunately, the success rate for such initiatives has been dismal. Most organizations fail to realize the benefits they expected due to four key reasons: Shortsighted, narrowly-focused investments rather than h....

Categories: Finance and Accounting

Tags: Finance

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Shared Service Centers – Are We at an Inflection Point?

Prakash Hariharan, Vice President and Head – Order to Cash Solutions and SEP Leader | Jan-04-12

In the last four to six weeks, I have had several meetings with the heads of SSCs from leading organizations across the Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Discrete Manufacturing, and Telecom industries, and there seems to be a perceptible shift in the focus of Shared Service Centers (SSC). While the dis....

Categories: Finance and Accounting

Tags: CFO, Finance, Risk Management

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Mining Data from the Cloud

Keith Meyer, Vice President, F&A Practice Lead | Jan-04-12

For global companies, having real-time access to all the financial and customer information—and ensuring that the right information is available—is a critical success factor. Despite ongoing investments in technology, many companies still struggle with ERP systems that cannot track....

Categories: Cloud Solutions

Tags: Analytics, Cloud, data mining

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