Summer Reading: 6 Books on Business, Innovation and Change
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Summer Reading: 6 Books on Business, Innovation and Change

Summer is a great time to catch up on reading, whatever your plans, relaxing on the beach, taking a road trip, going hiking or a flying overseas to build a snowman in the southern hemisphere. Reading helps your brain process, inspire passions to refocus your priorities and goals and enables you to stay on top…

How to Drive Effective Change
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How to Drive Effective Change

Today, for companies to stay competitive, they need to innovate continuously. Transformation programs are triggered across all industries to meet new customers’ expectations, improve products, implement new technology and create agile organisation ready to adopt the innovation. Leading change initiatives is hard. Nearly 70 per cent of change programs fail to achieve their goals, proving…

7 Tips to Succeed in a Multi-Country Business Transformation Project
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7 Tips to Succeed in a Multi-Country Business Transformation Project

We live and work in a period where technology is making us more connected; this interconnectivity means that the chances of being involved in international projects increase exponentially. Any given project represents a significant challenge for many reasons, no matter what the location: budgets, tight deadlines, sharing resources, among many others. If that project takes…

How Next-Generation Technology Fuels Process Improvements in the Lending Industry
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How Next-Generation Technology Fuels Process Improvements in the Lending Industry

The pace of technology change in the financial services industry accelerates and traditional lending organisations are embracing digital transformation initiatives to enable the development of customer-centric solutions and process improvements at speed and scale.  Technological innovation is transforming the financial services industry, facilitating the creation of new products and services that focus on both enhancing…

The Key Role CFOs Play in Business Transformation
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The Key Role CFOs Play in Business Transformation

Companies in the finance and leasing industry, focused on digital strategies and are looking to CFOs to help them develop the strategies needed to respond to technology innovation, build their business transformation plans and lead the change.  Making business transformation projects a reality is not easy. In today’s market, characterised by extraordinary urgency and tougher…

Diversity in the Workplace Drives Business Innovation and Financial Performance
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Diversity in the Workplace Drives Business Innovation and Financial Performance

Today diversity and gender equality in the workplace are under increasing scrutiny. Companies are focusing efforts on issues like how to increase and manage a diverse workforce and encourage sensitivity to it. Recent reports support the correlation between diversity, financial performance and business innovation. The Leasing industry is not indifferent to the diversity and gender…

Are You Taking the Right Approach to Change Management?
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Are You Taking the Right Approach to Change Management?

Technology innovation is all around us. Worldwide information technology spending this year is expected to hit $3.7 trillion, up 4.5% over 2017, as firms look to capitalise on the potential of the blockchain, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and other digital solutions, Gartner Inc. said. Organisations within the financial services and leasing industry undertaking their digital…

Importance Of BPM During Digital Transformation
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Importance Of BPM During Digital Transformation

Technological advances are fuelling a digital transformation in both the way consumers and organisations view the world. This digital transformation is creating opportunities for organisations to review and optimise their business processes and system infrastructures. Last week saw London host the Gartner Business Transformation & Process Management Summit. The event was focussed on managing and…

Three Things Every CFO Should Know About Their Oracle Application
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Three Things Every CFO Should Know About Their Oracle Application

The rapid pace of digital transformation and the implications of decisions around upgrades and cloud migration in line with cost and operation efficiencies mean that the role of the CFO in the implementation and management of core IT solutions is vital in large organisations. This is particularly true when looking at the Oracle platform. Oracle…