STRATEGY QUOTES: MY TOP 5

Every company is filled with transformation projects in all areas as they continue to adapt to competition, changing demands and a rapidly developing world. However more than any department, you will find transformation projects in Finance.Read more

In order to be successful and deliver results, organisations need a good strategic plan that is concise, accessible and easy to understand. Many companies make the common mistake of thinking their plan has to beRead more

1. Business Strategy = compete to be unique, not to be the best Strategy is not about being the best, but about being unique. Competing to be the best in business is one of theRead more

The idea that Finance should transform into an automated, digitised and value adding function has been around for years. Heck, I’ve written so many articles about it myself that it shouldn’t come as a surpriseRead more

Blog 1:  Moving on from Excel According to surveys, Excel is still the dominant tool used by organizations for planning. There are many reasons why this is the case, ranging from the fact that everyoneRead more

In my last blog, I started to outline how planning becomes more complex as an organization grows.  And as that complexity increases, how traditional planning tools such as Excel start to fail.  But for manyRead more

In the last blog, we looked at the range of planning needs within a typical organization.  This requires capabilities well beyond what Excel is able to support.  Not because it is a bad product –Read more

In the last blog, I looked at the capabilities of enterprise applications that were designed to replace spreadsheet systems for planning and reporting.  We saw how four major vendors dominate the market, and the relativeRead more