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Operations Insights

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Please see below selected intelligence from 2016 and earlier about operations. This is a synthesis of major recent developments at competitors, business schools, thinktanks, media, commentators, and other key influencers.

 

 

 

May 2016

 

 

  • The CFO role is being disrupted by digital; data; risk and uncertainty; regulation and stakeholder scrutiny. CFOs who don’t proactively define their role in response to these major forces could compromise their ability to shape strategy with the CEO and drive the innovation necessary for sustainable growth. In EY’s first 'The DNA of the CFO' study, conducted in 2010, EY painted a picture of a role that had already broadened to encompass not only traditional financial skills, but also more strategic and market-facing responsibilities. Six years later, in the latest CFO research study, EY found that change has accelerated more rapidly than many would have thought possible.

 

 

 

 

 

March 2016

 

 

 

 

 

February 2016

 

 

  • To drive profitable and sustainable growth, companies must identify activities that drive value, take out costs that aren’t contributing to business goals and reinvest those savings into growth initiatives that improve competitiveness. Accenture Strategy research found that 82% of companies are focused on cost reduction to free up funds to invest in growth initiatives, yet only 36% strongly agree they are able to sustain benefits of cost reduction programmes. So what are the challenges that companies face? There are several, but most important is the fact that businesses aren’t grasping the critical link between cost reduction efforts and growth strategy.

 

 

 

January 2016

 

 

 

 

 

December 2015

 

 

 

 

  • Since the global financial crisis, global treasury and cash management have entered a period of adjustment. Corporate treasurers are grappling with an increasingly uncertain macro environment and with time-consuming regulatory and compliance burdens. These factors cause major challenges for many companies that are keen to expand in the face of a sluggish economic recovery. At the same time, new technological capabilities and partnerships as well as the corporate treasurer's increasingly strategic role within the business offer major opportunities. A new programme by The Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Deutsche Bank, examines how global corporate treasurers are navigating these new risks and opportunities for growth, based on a global survey of 300 corporate treasurers, CFOs and other senior finance executives.

 

 

 

November 2015

 

 

  • PwC's 2015 Global Operations Survey was based on a survey of 1,262 operations decision-makers around the world. The report argued that changes in customer behaviour are set to disrupt businesses in all industries over the next five years. Yet, most company operations are not designed to deliver what customers value – now or three years from now. The report finds that while 61% of operations executives expect changes in customer behaviour to become a disruptive factor in the coming years, only 25% are extremely confident that their operations are designed to provide customer value and a distinctive experience. And 63% say that understanding what customers value is a challenge for their own company operations.

 

 

 

September 2015

 

 

 

 

 

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