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Are your Business Intelligence Tools Aiding Decision-Making? — BI, Analytics & Reporting
- 3 min read
Are your Business Intelligence Tools Aiding Decision-Making?

In a recent IDC Perspectives paper – A Call to Rethink Decision Support Software Capabilities – analysts Dan Vesset and Chandana Gopal identified a key...

Pietro Ferrari

Pietro Ferrari — BI, Analytics & Reporting
- 3 min read
Are your Business Intelligence Tools Aiding Decision-Making?

In a recent IDC Perspectives paper – A Call to Rethink Decision Support Software Capabilities – analysts Dan Vesset and Chandana Gopal identified a key...

Pietro Ferrari

Scales balancing supply and demand — Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
- 3 min read
Why Retailers Need to Fall in Love with Demand Planning

Seasonal holiday promotions used to be the highlight of the retail calendar. Across Easter, Christmas, Black Friday, and Valentine’s Day (to name a few), retailers...

Fabio Lovesio

#retail

Fabio Lovesio — Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
- 3 min read
Why Retailers Need to Fall in Love with Demand Planning

Seasonal holiday promotions used to be the highlight of the retail calendar. Across Easter, Christmas, Black Friday, and Valentine’s Day (to name a few), retailers...

Fabio Lovesio

#retail

Sales Planning — Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
- 4 min read
Sales Planning Software: Why You Need It and What to Consider

In Dresner’s recent Wisdom of Crowds Sales Planning Market Study, which explores attitudes to Sales Planning in organizations worldwide, a huge 84% of respondents scored...

Dominic Policella

#sales

Dominic Policella — Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
- 4 min read
Sales Planning Software: Why You Need It and What to Consider

In Dresner’s recent Wisdom of Crowds Sales Planning Market Study, which explores attitudes to Sales Planning in organizations worldwide, a huge 84% of respondents scored...

Dominic Policella

#sales

Why You Should Update Your Financial Consolidation Approach — Financial Consolidation & Closing
- 3 min read
Why You Should Update Your Financial Consolidation Approach

Times are changing for the financial consolidation process, and for finance teams in general. In FSN’s latest report, “Insight and Innovation in Consolidation Systems”, Gary...

Michele Bernasconi

#finance, #finance transformation

Michele Bernasconi — Financial Consolidation & Closing
- 3 min read
Why You Should Update Your Financial Consolidation Approach

Times are changing for the financial consolidation process, and for finance teams in general. In FSN’s latest report, “Insight and Innovation in Consolidation Systems”, Gary...

Michele Bernasconi

#finance, #finance transformation

Why You Should Strive for Standardization in the Strategic Planning Process — Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
- 4 min read
Why You Should Strive for Standardization in the Strategic Planning Process

Corporate strategic planning plays a vital role in business success, but undertaking it can present a minefield of challenges. In most large organizations the planning...

Dominic Policella

#decision making, #finance, #FP&A

Dominic Policella — Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
- 4 min read
Why You Should Strive for Standardization in the Strategic Planning Process

Corporate strategic planning plays a vital role in business success, but undertaking it can present a minefield of challenges. In most large organizations the planning...

Dominic Policella

#decision making, #finance, #FP&A

The Evolving Role of the CFO — Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
- 4 min read
The Evolving Role of the CFO

Over the past few decades the Finance function has remained largely unchanged. With a focus on financial planning and analysis, cost control, and risk management,...

Marco Berizzi

#finance

Marco Berizzi — Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
- 4 min read
The Evolving Role of the CFO

Over the past few decades the Finance function has remained largely unchanged. With a focus on financial planning and analysis, cost control, and risk management,...

Marco Berizzi

#finance

Retail in the Face of Adversity: A Step Change is Needed — Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
- 4 min read
Retail in the Face of Adversity: A Step Change is Needed

Almost two years ago I wrote a blog centered on the importance of not forgetting the fundamentals when it comes to solving real retail problems....

Fabio Lovesio

#FP&A

Fabio Lovesio — Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
- 4 min read
Retail in the Face of Adversity: A Step Change is Needed

Almost two years ago I wrote a blog centered on the importance of not forgetting the fundamentals when it comes to solving real retail problems....

Fabio Lovesio

#FP&A

Effectively Managing a Global Operation: Santa’s Secrets — Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
- 4 min read
Effectively Managing a Global Operation: Santa’s Secrets

Managing large-scale manufacturing and distribution activities is challenging and complex, and who else would know this better than Santa, the master of global operations. Making...

Daniel Phillips

#supply chain

Daniel Phillips — Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
- 4 min read
Effectively Managing a Global Operation: Santa’s Secrets

Managing large-scale manufacturing and distribution activities is challenging and complex, and who else would know this better than Santa, the master of global operations. Making...

Daniel Phillips

#supply chain

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