The buzz: “Financial shared services have come a long way since they started gaining popularity in the 1990s” (Jim Buchanan). Finance efficiencies and transparency are crucial for distributed enterprises today. How to design more intelligent Finance processes? Standardize processes throughout the organization, centralize at a few locations and build a foundation for new technologies. The experts speak. Arjun Krishnamurthy, Deloitte: “I think frugality drives innovation” (Jeff Bezos).
Werner Zeitlberger, The Hackett Group: “If the rate of change on the outside of an institution exceeds the r
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