Industry Insights - Consumer Products & Retail This March, spring forward with exciting updates! Discover how technology enablement, powered by data, is driving cost optimisation in our latest insights. Plus, catch our on-demand webinar, 'CIO & CFO Playbook: Agility Through Technology Modernisation,' and explore how tech is helping organisations stay agile while maximising value.Subscribe to monthly insights Featured Insights Technology Enablement—Fueled by Data—Is the Ticket to Cost Optimisation Discover how technology enablement can drive cost optimisation and business value, empowering finance leaders to move beyond traditional cost-cutting methods. Read more ON DEMAND - CIO & CFO Playbook: Agility Through Technology Modernisation Now on demand, this panel explores how CIOs and CFOs can collaborate to modernise systems and adopt scalable technologies that drive business agility, innovation, and long-term profitability. Watch now Learn more about Protiviti: BLOG | INSIGHTS | WHO WE ARE Top 3 Consumer Products and Retail Reads How Microsoft Copilot Can Unlock the Power of Internal Audit Internal audit departments often struggle to balance compliance with innovation. In the 2025 Top Risks survey, AI emerged as a top concern for audit leaders. Microsoft’s Copilot for M365 is helping transform internal audits by automating tasks, enhancing analysis, and streamlining documentation, allowing auditors to uncover risks, improve outcomes, and monitor performance in real time. Read more Data by default: How AI radically changes the data privacy landscape Nearly 20 years after Berners-Lee’s warning, AI has made data more valuable and raised new concerns about privacy and ownership. With AI leveraging data from various sources, protecting individual rights on data collection, storage, and usage has become increasingly complex and controversial. Read more Holistic Business Case, Power App Drive Revenue Growth and Margin Boost After 50 years of success, a leading industrial and commercial services provider faced production, logistics, and forecasting challenges. Protiviti partnered with the CCO to tackle these issues and improve operations. Read more Protiviti Services for Consumer Goods & Retail Pro Briefcase Consumer Goods Protiviti helps Consumer Goods organisations to rethink core business operations and transform for evolving customer needs and stakeholders’ expectations. Our expertise helps companies to respond quickly to challenges and identify innovative ways to embed resilience, optimise margin and improve operational performance. Pro Workflow Flowchart Retail Protiviti helps Retail organisations including apparel and specialty, food, beverage and tobacco, restaurants and food service, and home furnishings sectors reach customers where they are through business transformation efforts focused on evolving customer needs. Topics Internal Audit and Corporate Governance Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance Business Performance Industries Retail Consumer Products and Services