For many finance professionals, revenue management is among the top challenges today. With its combination of loosely defined regulations, evolving interpretations, and stiff penalties for noncompliance, revenue management creates unacceptable levels of complexity and variability that often overmatch the resources and...
Published: Feb 14, 2015
Capita was appointed by States of Jersey to implement a lean transformation programme across the Health and Social Services Department (HSSD). This report looks at the key objectives and results of our appointment.
Published: Jul 06, 2009
When you think of postponement, we're normally ‘putting something off' - which is great if you are running late on a deadline, or didn't really fancy doing whatever it is that you are postponing. But is it that simple in the pension world? In Pensions, postponement has really come to the fore with regards...
Published: Sep 01, 2013
Concur Travel & Expense, an integrated travel and expense solution, helps organizations save time and control spend during every step of the business traveler’s journey—before, during, and after the trip. Concur pulls all the pieces of travel and expense management together into one system that’s...
Published: Aug 31, 2012
The Index is a forward-looking indicator that forecasts future global M&A deal volumes and identifies the factors influencing conditions for dealmaking. Below, we have shared the key messages of the Index and the key trends from the Financial Services sector.
Published: Apr 26, 2015
As a wide variety of information technology services move to online offerings in the Cloud, more and more IT executives are considering whether to shift their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems there as well.
Running processes and infrastructure from the Cloud can, in the right context, provide greater...
Published: Sep 01, 2015
This Aberdeen study evaluates how Best-in-Class companies use invoice automation to control their payables processes and drive bottom-line results.
Published: May 12, 2012
This guide offers some tips to managing stock and predicting demand in a way that enables you to meet customers’ expectations more profitably. It shows how technology is further helping businesses in the wholesale and distribution sector to improve returns by managing their stock with greater efficiency.
Published: Jul 05, 2014
Collaborating with industry, this paper is politically agnostic despite the key ethos supporting the foundations of the “Big Society’. This vision simply provides a practical view of how it is possible to service the community better by bringing together local government, education, charitable bodies, businesses...
Published: Apr 11, 2010
The pressure on the Swiss manafacturing industry was hightened in recent years by the global financial crisis and recession of 2008 - 2009. It was further exacerbated by the Euro crisis and the accompanying strengthening of the Swis Franc.
Published: Jun 25, 2013
You want to meet your obligations to the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) by submitting your well and seismic data to UKOilandGasData. You know it makes sense to get relief from your licensee obligation to retain your records in perpetuity by submitting your data to the database. But keeping up with classifying,...
Published: Jul 25, 2014
A proactive and agile business will always employ performance indicators to measure, evaluate and optimise success. Commonly referred to as ‘KPIs’ (key performance indicators), performance indicators enable businesses to set goals and objectives against which they can benchmark their performance. When used...
Published: Sep 25, 2014
Some people call it “padding the expense report.” It’s just a few dollars here and there. Who’s it going to hurt? The big corporations won’t really miss it and small businesses won’t even notice… right? Despite the negative workplace implications and cultural prevalence associated...
Published: Jan 15, 2014
In the present climate, investing in a new financial system may seem a strange way to conserve your budget. However, looked at in a different light, it can be one of the best decisions you’ll ever make in improving efficiency and reducing your costs. With advanced levels of automation and integration, it could provide...
Published: Aug 28, 2014