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 Jeff Mooers, IT Manager Business Services at Allison Transmissions and Claire Wybrow, Business Architect at Allegient LLC, explain how the company launched an enterprise-wide transformation to unify and curate all official business processes and policies.

Learn more about APQC’s 2016 Process Conference is October 3-7.

I’ve got a confession: Because I’m a “process person” I didn’t expect to be embraced by the attendees at APQC’s recent Knowledge Management (KM) conference.

(Third and final installment in my series on Chip Conley and Airbnb)

I tease Chip Conley that it seems to be his destiny to be a serial disruptor of the hospitality industry, first as founder and former CEO of Joie de Vivre, the second largest boutique hotel company in America, and now as the head of Global Hospitality and Strategy with Airbnb, a hot marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world.

The evolving “Internet of Things” (IoT) is bringing about a new level of interconnectivity among devices, people, and organizations. The acceleration of IT interconnectivity in the supply chain function also creates potential risks if organizations do not ensure that they are making the right investments and have a plan of what they hope to get out of their IoT investments. The physical supply chain and the infrastructure that supports it (from manufacturing to delivery) are rarely designed with point-to-point IT risk management in mind.

The current fascination with using big data to sharpen business decision making is not lost on finance and accounting leaders. They know it is imperative that finance get up-to-speed with this powerful trend and learn how best to apply big data concepts in the realm of financial planning and analysis (FP&A). Unsurprisingly, recent APQC research shows that there is strong enthusiasm for enhancing FP&A; in tandem with that, a growing number of CFOs are sanctioning a closer look at cloud-based applications for planning and reporting.

This month APQC’s supply chain management research team is kicking off a regular blog series called Off the Chain. In each post we’ll highlight trending content from APQC’s Knowledge Base that we think you’ll love.

(Part Two of a three-part series on Chip Conley and Airbnb.)

I recently had the chance to interview  Alice Chung, Senior Manager of Field Operations & Information Management at Genentech about understanding the value of data-driven decision making and how to engage the business to meet its needs and overcome resistance. 

(The first of a three-part series on lessons from the sharing economy for the way we work.)

Today to win, organizations have to outmaneuver the competition, and this is where finance needs to step up and become a better business partner. But how are CFOs, and the finance functions they manage, driving process improvement efforts that lead to this outcome? To answer this question and more, APQC’s Senior Research Fellow in Financial Management, Mary Driscoll, fielded a survey to determine what tools, techniques, and technologies will enable finance to reach its full potential and stay relevant in the eyes of the business.