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How Design Thinking Can Help Finance Professionals Achieve their 2018 Goals
At the beginning of the year we surveyed a group of 260 finance professionals from across industries and regions to find out what their priorities were for 2018. The results were at once simple and complex. The top two finance function priorities for 2018 were: Implement new…
Tesla Trouble Teaches Not to Bite Off More Automation than You Can Chew
What comes to mind when you hear the name “Elon Musk”? APQC—right? Just kidding. Even though Mr. Musk has no affiliation with APQC, you could be forgiven for thinking that he does, since both he and APQC are such vociferous proponents of robotic process automation (RPA). We believe that RPA is one…
Digitalization and Other Reasons 2018 Isn’t Just Another Year in Process Management
We’re roughly a quarter of the way through 2018 and from what I can tell so far, this year isn’t too different from last year. Everyone is still ad dicted to their smart phones, the weather is still crazy, and the Houston Rockets are still the best team in professional basketball. Yep…hardly…
Robotic Process Automation (RPA): The Cover-Worthy Revolution Hidden on Page Twelve
If you didn’t think cognitive computing and artificial intelligence (AI) were at the top of everybody’s mind at the beginning of 2017, you certainly could be forgiven for thinking so by the end the year. It seemed like not a week went by that a cover of a major business periodical/website wasn’t…