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Like other support areas such as HR and IT, the Finance department in many organizations has evolved in recent years to take on a more strategic role in helping reach…
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Busy but not productive: it is the feeling that everyone dreads. At APQC's 2022 PPM and KM Conference, APQC’s Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland and Cindy Hubert led a general session on…
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Applying a Process Framework: Benchmarking
Benchmarking is an approach that organizations use to measure their internal processes and to identify, understand, and adapt practices used by best-in-class organizations…
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In July 2021, APQC hosted two roundtable conversations with process and performance management professionals to discuss common challenges and leading practices related to…
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Expanding How We Define Productivity
APQC’s founder, Jack Grayson, believed that true productivity encompasses both effectiveness and efficiency: “Efficiency measures if you are doing things right. Effectiveness…
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To learn more about the goals, challenges, career paths, and future plans of today’s finance professionals, APQC launched the “People of Finance” series to share the stories…
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Speed to Insight at the Speed of Thought
In August 2020, APQC hosted Brian Kalish (Principal, Kalish Consulting) for a webinar about how organizations can grow their data and analytics maturity to deliver deeper,…
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Turning Financial Data into Actionable Insights: Perspectives from Author and SME Dave Paradi
The goal of financial reporting is to help executives and other leaders make better business decisions. Unfortunately, many finance professionals fall short of this goal by…
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Finance Analytics: Building High-performance Structure, Tools, and Teams (Executive Summary)
Analytics has become an essential competency for today’s finance teams. This executive summary condenses the key findings across structure and strategy, people, processes and…
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Guaranteed Analytics
This article gleans insights from author and consultant Jim Rushton, Managing Director, Armeta Analytics, in terms of strategies, insights, and real-world examples of why so…
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FP&A in 2020: A Look Back and a Look Ahead
In an APQC webinar, FP&A thought leader Brian Kalish (founder of Kalish Consulting) discussed four trends for finance and FP&A in particular for the next year based on…
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Actionable Profitability Analytics
In contrast to traditional accounting in the general ledger, which can be rigid and two-dimensional, actionable profitability analytics allows an organization to track and…
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In July of 2019, APQC spoke with FP&A expert Brian Kalish, principal and founder at Kalish Consulting, to gather his insights as part of the Finance Data Analytics: Building…