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Internal controls are essential for protecting financial assets, safeguarding data, and ensuring organizational integrity. Finance leaders—especially those who also guide IT functions—must carefully evaluate how prevention and detection work together.

A reality check for business leaders

AI Supports knowledge management by enabling organizations to capture, organize, and reuse knowledge more effectively. In practice, AI supports knowledge management through faster knowledge discovery, improved decision making, and scalable knowledge transfer that augments—rather

Every major 2026 outlook puts AI at or near the center of supply chain transformation. Whether it’s demand sensing, predictive planning, supplier risk monitoring, or robot-enabled warehousing, the message is the same: AI is no longer experimental.

APQC CONNECT 2026, APQC's annual Process & Knowledge Management Conference, will take place in Houston April 22-23. As part of a special blog series, we invited our breakout speakers to share insights into the themes and topics they’ll be exploring at this year’s event. 

As finance teams navigate another year of uncertainty, digital acceleration, and shifting business expectations, one thing is clear: the role of Financial Management is changing faster than ever.

We’re continuing to analyze the results from last year’s change management survey, and one of the most interesting things to emerge so far is where the biggest differences show up. Unsurprisingly, many of them appear in the regional data cuts.

Benchmarking against competitors begins with clarity. Organizations must define why they are benchmarking and what business questions they are trying to answer. Is the goal to reduce costs, improve cycle time, increase quality, or support strategic planning?

No baseline, no proof.

If HR doesn’t establish HR analytics baselines today, it won’t have a credible way to measure AI value in HR tomorrow.

Cycle time to prepare the financial forecast has emerged as a critical finance performance metric. This measure reflects how quickly finance teams can deliver reliable forecasts that support real-time decision making—without sacrificing quality.