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The Modern IT Leader

Chief Executive

“This strategic digital transformation involved a combination of systems, process and data challenges that we needed to roll up together to the customer, which is why the company brought it to me,” he said. At the time, the digital transformation was the biggest SAP S/4 scale-out deployment.

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There Is A Roadmap Through Today’s Financial Crunch

Chief Executive

Make granular cash-flow forecasts. But capital allocations for digital transformation are the exception. But if you’re not connected to your customer digitally and aren’t using that data for decision-making, you’re falling behind.” Communicate—then communicate some more. Don’t cut that,” Charan urged. “It

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Should I Hire a Business Consultant for My Small Business?

Zenefits

A good consultant can map a business strategy, assist with a digital transformation, or improve a specific department’s operations. A good consultant can map a business strategy, assist with a digital transformation, or improve a specific department’s operations. Reduced costs.

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How Digital Currencies Can Help Small Businesses

Harvard Business Review

They could reduce payment processing costs and cash flow issues.

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How Incentives for Long-Term Management Backfire

Harvard Business Review

Another company, in the agricultural technology sector, chose free cash flow as the primary long-term incentive measure. Facing headwinds to growth, executives delayed R&D and capital investments to hit three-year free-cash-flow goals. Eventually, the company’s share price nosedived.

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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

Harvard Business Review

banks are going to survive the coming wave in financial technology (fintech), they’ll need to finally take digital transformation seriously. In these options, the critical question is whether the bank wants to keep its own underwriting criteria or use new algorithms developed by its digital partner.

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The Best Accounting Platforms for a Growing Business

Zenefits

As your small business continues to scale, cash flow transparency and accounting efficiency become harder to maintain. Poor cash flow visibility. However, the efficiency and cost savings from a digital, automated, and seamless process are well worth the planning. Long accounts receivable, or payment, wait times.