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The Finance Function: Achieving Performance Excellence in a Global Economy
Business Intelligence [part of Optima Media Group], Jan 2009
Practical advice, benchmark performance data and smart ideas:
- Learn about the factors in selecting options for achieving lean efficiency – from technology to streamline service delivery, offshoring to shared services and outsourcing
- Use the in-depth analysis and advice in the Report to evaluate competing service delivery models against your corporate strategy to devise the best solution for your circumstances
- Discover why – and how – leading finance organizations are upskilling professionals to deliver greater value to the organization.
Is it possible to excel at both service delivery and value-adding support for the business? How has globalization affected these challenges? What does the business want from finance in tough economic times?
This report takes a fresh look at what it means to be a world-class finance organization in today’s demanding business climate – and what CFOs can do to raise finance’s contribution and value to the enterprise.
This authoritative guide is based on extensive research into top-performing finance organizations – including GSK, Whirlpool and StatoilHydro – plus input from leading consultants and findings from the latest research. The Finance Function: Achieving Performance Excellence in a Global Economy focuses on the latest performance methods and approaches to inspire new thinking and approaches in your organization.
What you will learn from this report
The Finance Function: Achieving Performance Excellence in a Global Economy contains a wide range of useful models, metrics, ideas and techniques that you can apply to your finance organization including:
- Effective means for developing the capabilities to succeed in the global economy – check lists for building business support skills, qualifications for business partnering and much more
- Analysis of what globalization means for finance – the opportunities and threats posed by competition from emerging markets, the offshoring dividend
- How to scope shared services – what activities to transfer and what to retain locally and the factors that influence your decisions
- A template for developing a finance function scorecard with examples of typical goals, KPIs and measures
- The principles of building an integrated corporate performance management system incorporating a full spectrum of reports and analysis
- How a finance academy can be the most effective way of developing of next generation finance skills
- The best way to make use of benchmarking data to support process improvement
- A 20-point finance function transformation guide that takes you through the big questions to be answered.
Lessons and insights from leading CFOs
CFOs who have tackled head-on the problems posed by transforming their finance organizations discuss what they have learnt and how they see the issues. Crucially, they explain what led them to choose different solutions for common problems – for example, outsourcing rather than shared services. Or focusing on efficiency improvements before tackling effectiveness and partnering.
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