Progressus

MARCH 17, 2025

Finance leaders are facing a rapidly changing landscape, where technology, AI, and automation are transforming traditional CFO responsibilities. Gone are the days of static reports and manual processestodays CFOs must be agile, strategic, and tech-savvy to drive business success.

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Finance Agile Report 52

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Easy steps you can take today to craft a more agile process.

Agile 177

Agile Finance Trends 177

Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR. Uber apparently lacked oversight about sexual harassment behavior; it seems far less likely that such oversight would be lacking when it comes to finance.

Recruiting 138

Recruiting Recruitment Finance Agile 138

Progressus

JUNE 18, 2024

Enable Business Agility to Differentiate Your Products and Services Many companies deploy Microsoft Dynamics 365 Financeand Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management together to create a comprehensive ERP platform. The two solutions will introduce a wide range of combined enhancements as part of Microsofts 2024 Release Wave 1.

Finance 52

Finance Management Agile Productivity 52

Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2022

Sponsor content from Chase.

Financial 172

Financial Agile Finance 172

Steve Shu Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

this legislation covers finance and retirement-related considerations. There will be some players that will be way more agile than others and able to capitalize on both important behavioral implications and operational tactics. We talked about the recently passed Secure Act 2.0 For those unfamiliar with Secure Act 2.0,

Construction 195

Construction Journal Agile Examples 195

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. Neither do Finance or HR, or other “Admin” functions. Except, in an agile approach, product management (often via product owners) is an integral part of a high-performing agile team. See Your Current Organization.

Productivity 86

Productivity Agile Culture Efficiency 86

Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Later the next week, Finance returned my timesheet to me. A couple of finance people yelled at me. In Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation , I explained the desire for capitalization. Weekly or monthly releases if you're not using an agile approach. The number of hours total? I think 55. Lots of overtime.

Data 114

Data Agile Software Trends 114

Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2022

A colleague unfamiliar with lifecycles or agility asked, “How can we use sprints in this approach?” That's because a finance person drew the lifecycle.). See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.). And you don't have to use an agile approach to use an iteration. It's often a week or more.

Agile 107

Agile Productivity Finance Software 107

Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Very large multi-national product companies need to find creative ways to enjoy the benefits of scale while remaining agile. Agility and scale rarely co-exist in the design of the organizational operating model. So why is it so hard to create networked, agile teams in large, global product companies? The global/local tension.

Agile 50

Agile Analysis Apparel Resources 50

Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Forum participants will have an opportunity to learn from inspirational project management leaders as well as attend masterclasses revealing the aspects of delivering sustainable projects, Agile transformation, application of technologies, and more. is the largest Agile conference in Central Europe. PMO London 2024 June, 18-19.

Industry 130

Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 130

Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2017

It’s about creating an agile organization that can detect what type of change is essential and respond quickly with the most competitive solution. Marketing, commercial and finance have to work together to develop new pricing models. All of this has to happen fluidly and rapidly.

Agile 133

Agile Data Development Industry 133

Johanna Rothman

JULY 23, 2019

All the Finance work (Finance is the customer). This is where taking an agile approach to the projects can really help your project portfolio decisions. Until they pay off their accumulated decision-debt, they can't move forward with an agile approach. In either case, you have to organize the work in some way.

Productivity 73

Productivity Agile Finance ROI 73

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

One of our clients learned this as its business in Ukraine was facing rapid currency depreciation, and its finance department, whose ultimate priority was revenue collection, switched to USD pricing. That can have disastrous consequences. This left the company’s distributors, who could not access U.S. dollars, unable to pay them.

Marketing 70

Marketing Agile Company Sales 70

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Part 1 was about how when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. That means we have to change the reward system for managers early enough in an agile transformation to make it easy for the managers to succeed. We understand how agile approaches help teams work better.

Productivity 77

Productivity Agile Efficiency Management 77

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In Part 1 , I suggested that when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. Note that Marketing, Finance, HR, are all part of this product line. I didn’t know anything about agile approaches then. I didn’t know anything about agile approaches then.

Productivity 83

Productivity Agile Efficiency Management 83

Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

For example, in industries like finance and accounting, AI-powered systems can process invoices, perform data entry tasks, and generate financial reports with minimal human intervention. This data-driven approach can enhance agility and enable businesses to respond in real time in rapidly changing markets.

Data 147

Data Operations Efficiency System 147

Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

His ideas regarding remote work difficulties and how to handle them are based on his research of Agile software development, human resources, supply chain management, cognitive psychology, organizational behavior, and labor economics.

Management 29

Management Handbook Case Study Case Studies 29

Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2017

They include building glistening landmarks that anchor their digital strategy (as Dubai has done), removing roadblocks and bottlenecks to improve their underlying speed and agility (Boston), or changing course altogether to construct an entirely new city (Shanghai). Dubai: Erecting Modern Landmarks. Boston: Removing Roadblocks.

Agile 71

Agile System Retail Data 71

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Once given permission to “think the unthinkable” via cross-functional teams, retailers can often realize material impacts on agility and costs. Aligning the big picture with the day-to-day.

Retail 129

Retail Operations Productivity Industry 129

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Agilent Technologies, separating from Hewlett Packard, turned to Deloitte to help facilitate the transaction and Deloitte in turn asked Steve Pratt to act as project lead. Soon, Pratt and Joshi talked and Agilent became the first client Deloitte served using a global delivery model (GDM). Finance and Controlling Processes.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Deloitte 100

Johanna Rothman

APRIL 22, 2025

My term, not any finance person's term.) And that's the culture clash of agility with resource efficiency. This is why an agile “transformation” requires a culture change from resource efficiency to flow efficiency thinking. (See the Investopedia page for more details.) I'm not big on EBITDA, either.

Metrics 52

Metrics Management How To Agile 52

Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

See Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility and Unearthing Your Project's Delays.) While everyone realized the entire organization needed to limit their WIP, their decisions still took a long time because all the “support” people (finance, HR, marketing communications, etc) were still centralized.

Metrics 81

Metrics How To Efficiency Resources 81

Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The rise of contractual employment offers businesses the benefit of agility and adaptability by turning full-time employees into freelancers. They also need to manage their own training, resource development, and financing. From a financial perspective, this allows businesses to turn a fixed cost (i.e.,

Consulting 97

Consulting Accenture Industry Talent 97

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

The captive financing division of a global manufacturer has a team of 30 or so analytics modelers, several of which are PhD holders. First is a central function versus agility and integration of embedded functions (with a COE where analytics teams can learn from each other). Data and analytics embedded in an operating division.

Operations 70

Operations Chemicals Data Agile 70

Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

Recently, a financial services organization found $5 million in opportunities to optimize its finance processes. Yet it also gives you an agile way to work: you don’t waste time or dollars when there are no results, and you develop a fast-fail mentality to learn what works and what doesn’t.

Strategy 70

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Agile 70

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Supported by TAPFIN, a division of ManpowerGroup, they gathered data from HR and Finance systems including the HRIS, VMS, ATS, GL/Finance and A/P. The company’s finance organization was developing a new three-year Operating Expense (OPEX) plan, at the same time that HR rolled out their new plan.

Talent 70

Talent Strategy Strategy Strategy& 70

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Companies cannot survive without acting like lean and agile start-ups, and figuring out a way to make that happen is a core priority for managers. Marguerite Arnold is an entrepreneur, author and third semester EMBA candidate at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. Faster, in fact, than society can.

Agile 60

Agile Finance Management Company 60

QEmploy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Move from an established company to an agile company How many meetings have you been attending were the same topics pop up over and over again? “We We need to be more digital and agile; those who do not change will not survive!” “How do we create a more agile organization?” But how do you do that?

Company 11

Company Consulting Agile Talent 11

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

As an example, the CEO had been discussing the importance of driving more agile decision making. The language of finance and accountability has become a bit intoxicating, given the tools that marketers have today that we didn’t have 20+ years ago.

Advertising 70

Advertising Agile Marketing Meeting 70

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Nearly every function from marketing to human resources and finance was replicated at each level: Enterprise functions and infrastructure. Microsoft delivered enormous wins to shareholders for decades before losing momentum to smaller agile companies as well as the likes of Apple and Google. a) Agility.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Scalers iteratively experiment and tweak new ideas until they find product-market fit using methods like agile or lean. Hive teams also have representatives from functions that might normally act as corporate antibodies, like legal, finance, HR, or compliance. How should you create a smoother handoff between teams?

How To 70

How To Film Productivity Development 70

Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility. Global operating and support functions (R&D, supply chain, marketing, IT, HR, finance, etc.). Global business units (products, brands, categories, or customer segments).

Enterprise 50

Enterprise Operations Agile Metrics 50

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

There’s no question that legacy IT systems are too slow and rigid for the agility that digital business demands. As companies modernize their IT infrastructure, they are looking to gain flexibility, scalability and above all, speed.

Operations 71

Operations Survey Fashion Efficiency 71

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Finally, some companies have struggled to finance their activities without payment while they work on delivering the results, limiting their ability to innovate too. As a result, some governments and private foundations have introduced social impact bonds to provide the necessary working capital.

Education 70

Education Insurance Insurance Analysis 70

Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2016

They’ve redesigned their core processes in the area of procurement (online shopping), talent acquisition (marketplaces), collaboration (social networking), market research (peer reviews), finance (mobile payments) and travel (room and ride sharing). Have you reinvented your core processes to the same degree?

Efficiency 70

Efficiency Sales Agile Enterprise 70

Progressus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Most companies have a finance and operational system in place, but siloed systems can’t go beyond everyday business processes or help with future business growth. Ensure business agility. As companies expand and their needs change, their systems should keep up with them.

Software 52

Software ROI Operations Efficiency 52