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At Workday Rising, planning for a changing world

October 24, 2019

I write often about change. I note frequently how it is not just inevitable, but accelerating. I do this because change is the defining force in business today, and it’s…

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The research is in: The future belongs to the agile

Tom Bogan

October 16, 2019

At Workday Rising this week, thousands of professionals are gathered to peer into the future of the changing world of work. They’ll hear about innovations and initiatives aimed at, among…

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It’s time finance starts driving value creation

Anders Liu-Lindberg

October 15, 2019

Decisions, decisions, decisions. That’s all a company is made up of. But wait—what happens after the decision is made? More decisions? No, after a decision comes execution. It’s in the…

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Meet the new breed of finance professionals: influencers

Anders Liu-Lindberg

October 8, 2019

Influencers, eh? Aren’t those the people who post funny pictures to their millions of followers on social media, getting paid to pose with various products? Yes, that might be the…

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From real-time insights to future time

Anders Liu-Lindberg

October 1, 2019

Insight. The one true currency of a finance professional. If we don’t have any insights to share with our business stakeholders, then we’re not helping improve decision-making. A lot has…

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Are you dying by the hands of analysis?

Anders Liu-Lindberg

September 24, 2019

If there’s one thing a finance professional can do forever, it’s analyze stuff. We’re never short of data to analyze, and there are always more details to be ironed out.…

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Who’s running your reporting landscape?

Anders Liu-Lindberg

September 17, 2019

Why do I ask this question? Because the answer is not as simple as it used to be. Here are some potential answers: The local business intelligence (BI) team (as…

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Don’t be a producer of numbers. Be a user!

Anders Liu-Lindberg

September 10, 2019

The amount of data that business and the finance function must process continues to increase, yet the number of people involved in producing this data is decreasing. This is happening…

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The finance value chain disrupted. Are you keeping up?

Anders Liu-Lindberg

August 30, 2019

In June I attended the largest CFO conference in Scandinavia, and two stats stuck in my mind. “800 to 2 and 10 to 10” It might sound like gibberish, but…

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8 changes for FP&A to make to transform strategy

Anders Liu-Lindberg

August 26, 2019

Eighty percent of economic profit created by companies globally comes from 20% of the companies. Yes, the Pareto principle applies here too! What’s the secret sauce for becoming one of…