Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Insights paper March 15, 2024 Strategic Sourcing: Gaining Advantage, Mitigating Risk A shift in mindset to a strategic sourcing strategy anticipates and mitigates supply chain risk while improving resilience and responsiveness, still aiming to reduce total cost of ownership. Insights paper March 20, 2024 Mastering Data Dilemmas: Navigating Privacy, Localisation and Sovereignty In today's digital age, data privacy management is paramount for businesses and individuals alike. With the ever-changing regulatory landscape surrounding data protection, organisations must adapt swiftly to ensure compliance and maintain trust with their customers and stakeholders. However, both data sovereignty and localisation play an important role in privacy, as discussed in a previous post… Newsletter January 12, 2023 The Top Risks for 2023: A Global View The global survey of C-level executives and directors, focused on macroeconomic, strategic and operational risks, highlights the influence of the economy, people and culture issues, supply chain risks, and technology impacts on the 2023 risk landscape. The survey was conducted online in the September — October 2022 time frame to capture perspectives on 38 risks on the minds of business leaders as… Whitepaper September 28, 2022 PCI Security Standards Council publishes updated data security standard DSS 4.0 addresses rapidly evolving threat environment and provides flexibility for how organisations can achieve compliance On March 31, 2022, the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) released a new version of the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS). PCI DSS 4.0 is the first revision to the DSS in almost four years. It represents a major update to the standard as the payments industry faces an… Insights paper January 8, 2024 How data sovereignty and data localisation impact your privacy programmes The concepts of data sovereignty and data localisation stem from a desire to keep data within a country’s borders for greater control. While the broad strokes of various privacy laws may be consistent across jurisdictions, governments will dictate the collection, storage and interpretation of their citizens’ data through constantly evolving privacy regulations.The legislative bodies that write… Client Story June 7, 2023 Resource backfill, technology and process change drive state procurement improvements Many institutions in the public sector are faced with improving the efficiency and responsiveness of their services and operations to better serve stakeholders and the public. High turnover and lengthy recruiting cycles are creating both a loss of tribal knowledge and an influx of inexperienced resources, leading to significant delays in day-to-day operations.Our client, a state procurement group… Client Story November 18, 2022 Insurance Distribution Firm Positions Itself for Successful IPO and Global Expansion with Finance and Technology Transformation An award-winning, entrepreneurial insurance distribution and risk management firm serving more than 1.2 million clients was facing multiple challenges as it prepared to launch an initial public offering (IPO). The company was experiencing massive growth through the acquisition of as many as 20 companies per year. Its leadership was innovating the industry with a vision to expand internationally,… Client Story February 6, 2023 Global Multimedia Organisation Transforms Sourcing and Procurement Function and Saves Millions In many organisations the procurement function is thought of purely as an administrative function and cost center, but addressing opportunities in this area offers a chance to add significant value to the organisation. Investment and focus on the procurement function can enhance business outcomes, improve the bottom line and help manage risk, especially during periods of rising inflation and… Insights paper September 22, 2023 Sustainability and Private Markets: A Structured Approach to Value Creation The ESG regulatory landscape is starting to form: In the public markets worldwide, companies are trying to determine how to respond to and incorporate stringent sustainability-related disclosure requirements from the EU. Meanwhile, the International Sustainability Standards Board has completed its work on a set of voluntary standards for public companies globally. In the U.S., the SEC is poised… Podcast June 30, 2023 Cost Optimisation in Manufacturing – with Shawn Seasongood and Andrea Vardaro Thomas Well, it looks like a recession is coming. Or maybe it's not. Or maybe it is. It seems like it's been a long wait for the other economic shoe to drop. And in the meantime, many questions are arising around managing costs in organisations. CFOs and finance leaders continue to have a lot of questions, and get even more from their internal stakeholders and customers, about projections, cost… Load More