Events

Upcoming Events

Success Strategies for the Intercompany Global Process Owner (GPO)

Event date: 6 October 2022

Join us on October 6th when we host Steve Standring, Global Head of Intercompany at Blackline, to explore the realities, challenges and best practices for aspiring and current Intercompany Global Process Owners.

Intercompany gets much less attention than O2C, R2R …

Enhance P2P and O2C Performance & Impact – Working Better Together

Event date: 20 September 2022

Continuous Process Improvement or Digital Transformation? It is not EITHER/OR . . .

While you develop your digital innovation & transformation programs there are small changes you can make to drive immediate gains in process efficiency/effectiveness, operational excellence and the …

The 6 Data Challenges Inhibiting Excellence and Agility in Finance – APQC

Event date: 29 June 2022

We are bombarded by reports, analyses and surveys that tell us that “data is the new oil” and that “data driven decision making” is the future of the digital business, and that our transformation and redemption is around the corner.

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Five Bear Traps to Avoid in Process Mining

Event date: 22 June 2022

Process Mining, or technically “mining for data about process execution” is a hot topic for Finance leaders, Global Business Services executives and CIOs today.

Process Mining can provide effective support to Process Excellence, Transformation & Business Change initiatives by exposing …

ICFR – Are You Driving in Poor Visibility?

Event date: 13 July 2022

Ensuring effective and efficient Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICFR) is a challenge at the best of times.

Our business risks are exposed through the interactions between our processes, people, third parties, applications and technologies. ICFR is a relevant topic …

Global Process Ownership – Overcoming The 5 BIG Challenges

Event date: 19 May 2022

Shelley Davies – Global Process Excellence and Automation at Anglo American
Steve Fox – former VP Global Business Services at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Dan French – Fonder & CEO at Consider Solutions

“Global Process Owner” is the “role du jour” …

Procure to Pay (P2P) “Unplugged” – Sometimes Less is More

Event date: 29 March 2022

“Automation makes Bad, Worse, Faster” – a thought provoking observation from technology leaders at one of the world’s largest retail businesses.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient process operation …

The Dunning Kruger Effect & Other Cognitive Biases that Limit Our Performance

Event date: 15 December 2021

The “Dunning Kruger effect” is a well documented cognitive bias that affects decision making for all of us.

The results of Dunning Kruger and other cognitive biases mean that otherwise smart people tend to make plans that can be very

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Data Analytics & BI – Are We Approaching a Tipping Point?

Event date: 16 November 2021

Is your analytics strategy already delivering business value at speed?

Or is “cycle time to business insight/value” still an issue of concern for you, your business stakeholders and customers?

We have an explosion of platforms and tools available for our …

The KPI Paradox & Other Barriers to Performance Improvement

Event date: 29 September 2021

70% of Transformation initiatives fail to deliver on the business case. Lofty goals for process change and performance improvements are infamous for not being achieved.

Why?

There are some seductive myths around performance and productivity, which we need to reconsider

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Are You Missing Something in Purchase to Pay (P2P)?

Event date: 8 July 2021

It looks shiny and contemporary, but there is something missing . . .

We had a great, and massively attended, webcast on 8th July 2021 with our special guest, Steve Fox, former VP Global Business Services at Thermo Fisher Scientific.…