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While the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) that took effect in January 2023 is primarily disclosure-oriented, the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) is all about action.

Embracing emerging technologies to drive business growth is a common focus for forward-thinking leaders. Businesses are pursuing technology modernisation initiatives to enhance their competitiveness, efficiency and agility. These initiatives aim to upgrade and improve an organisation’s technology infrastructure, systems, software and practices.

Increasing operational efficiency, optimising legal business processes and eliminating waste inside the organisation can go a long way toward helping energy and utilities (E&U) firms lower their services costs without forsaking their future business priorities.

As organisations transition to SAP S/4HANA and SAP cloud solutions, they often discover that GRC capabilities and processes also need to be updated on a more frequent basis. One example of a continuously changing dataset is the segregation of duties (SoD) ruleset. With S/4HANA, the GRC ruleset now supports monitoring many new access types including Fiori apps and HANA database access. 

The urgent need to develop a successful competitive strategy and align your supply chain to it has become apparent in recent years. So why haven’t successful implementations of enterprise technology systems kept pace to support this critical need? The issue is that many of the core characteristics of enterprise applications – complex configurations, lengthy implementations, extensive testing and big-dollar budgets…

As the stakes increase for ensuring the integrity of sustainability reports, CFOs across all industries should not only consider adding the ESG controller role in the finance function but also determine where it sits in the organisational structure and how a newly appointed ESG controller can be positioned to succeed.

In today’s dynamic and challenging business landscape, private equity (PE) firms and their portfolio companies are increasingly recognising the strategic value of robust procurement and supply chain management and its role as a pivotal driver of value creation and operational excellence. 

Operational resilience – the ability for firms to prevent, adapt, respond to, recover and learn from operational disruptions – is a common concern for clients, leading to questions such as: Which management information should firms report against? Or, how can organisations advance testing beyond tabletop scenarios? While the answers often depend on specific contexts, leveraging available data across the business can…

Sustainable sourcing, an emerging trend only a decade ago, is converging with strategic sourcing to become a fundamental component of business strategy. This reflects a broader move toward more ethical and environmentally responsible supply chains – a shift driven by regulatory requirements, customer expectations, technology advances and the realisation of long-term benefits of sustainable practices. 

Businesses are excited about the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to innovate and enhance business models, customer insights, products, and processes. Alongside this potential, there is a growing need to identify and mitigate risk associated with AI technologies. CIOs, in particular, are exploring how to ensure the responsible design and use of AI and their roles in managing legal, regulatory…