Your business’s IT infrastructure lays the foundation for innovation. Creating a strong IT strategy is even more important for growth, especially as we see new software and technology emerge on what seems like a daily basis. Part of building a solid IT strategy is, of course, budgeting. New technology can…

Your business runs on data — that’s why data collection is key for business success. But once you have that data, how do you communicate it? The options for data communication are so much more robust than ever before. Technology has allowed for new tools and techniques that didn’t exist…

You may have heard this statistic before, but it bears repeating: in a survey of nearly 300 global executives by Bain & Co., only a third felt the strategy it produced met three vital criteria: bold ambition, adaptability in the face of changing market conditions, and concrete guidance for management…

The business budgeting process can be one of the most challenging parts of running a company. Often, there are so many moving parts, different people involved, and competing priorities that if you’re not careful you can end up wasting time and money during the process — the opposite of what…

When it is time to improve or optimize your financial management solutions — specifically, your budgeting and forecasting processes — there are several factors to keep in mind. Often this involves implementing or upgrading your corporate performance management software. When it comes to the best corporate performance management system, what’s…

It’s 2 p.m. on Tuesday. Your quarterly numbers are due on Thursday morning. You’ve successfully managed to corral your team and everything is pretty much complete in your financial system, ready for review and final submission. Then it happens… your system goes unresponsive and you can’t seem to access any…

For many organizations, data cleanup and master data management are some of the most complex and expensive challenges. Finding a way to deal with outdated or inaccurate data and seamlessly merge all relevant numbers can be frustrating and confusing. But it is necessary. Why? In many organizations, fragmented or inaccurate…

Times they are a changin’. Your financial numbers should be changing too. In these changing times, businesses need to be more agile and make decisions based on updated information – and this is especially true when it comes to your business forecasting. We all know it to be true: you…

Is someone at your company not so in love with business budgeting? Or maybe it’s you whose relationship status with business budgeting should read “it’s complicated.” Perhaps Cupid’s arrow will strike this Valentine’s Day, but even if it doesn’t there are ways to make the business budgeting process easy and…

It seems as though every other week we’re hearing about a major company falling victim to hackers. With so much information available online nowadays, it isn’t hard to understand why hackers have become so adept at targeting and infiltrating organizations’ financial systems. Hackers will use a variety of tactics to…