None of us can miss the potential seismic changes from the latest wave of technological innovation and commercialization in Generative AI, Large Language Models, ChatGPT, Bard et al . . .

These “waves of change” are accelerating. 

The pace of …

“Thinking is to humans as swimming is to cats”.

 We can do it, but we would rather not!

I listened to a fascinating podcast today and I was reminded of this great quote from the psychologist Daniel Kahneman whose book …

A number of discussion themes collided this week. 

Since I don’t believe in coincidences, I thought I would share the common thread.

An article in CFO Dive “scratched an itch” that is getting quite a lot of attention right now.…

Debates amongst data experts are raging.

You hear that “data is our most important business asset”.

I thought it was people?

Maybe it depends . . .

An interesting and relevant article from Randy Bean and Allison Sagraves, asks “Is …

Debates amongst data experts are raging.

You hear that “data is our most important business asset”.

I thought it was people?

Maybe it depends . . .

An interesting and relevant article from Randy Bean and Allison Sagraves, asks “Is …

We were all taught from childhood and beyond that we need triumph over adversity and succeed through failure.  

It is a central tenet of what we learn in business.

“Fail Fast” . . .

I am sure you have, like …

We have had a deluge of requests for more information on some of the Shared Services and GBS benchmarks that Naomi Secor shared on a webcast with us a few weeks back.

Naomi, the leading light behind SSON Research & …

Two big topics collide this week as the Northern Hemisphere Spring has almost “sprung”.

• Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) may be the biggest corporate reporting requirement to hit CFOs since the heady days of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX).  

• End-to-End business process

Just when we thought things were back to some form of stability, we have rampant inflation, continued supply chain issues, raw material price volatility, rising interest rates, tightening credit, increasing ESG demands, bank “fragility” . . . .  and breathe …

So, half you will recoil at my spelling of “behaviours” – but I am in the US this week. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it!

And anyway, why do we have different spellings in the same language?

I …