Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Blogs April 19, 2024 Six Reasons to Reconsider Cost Optimisation As senior executives face more pressure to respond to rising costs and eroding profit margins, CFOs can remind their colleagues that they have more cost-optimisation strategies than they might expect.Many business leaders reflexively reach for the headcount-reduction lever. This is understandable given the rising cost of labor and that downsizing and reducing year-end bonuses usually hits the… Blogs December 16, 2022 A New Value Chain Paradigm: Microsoft’s New Supply Chain Platform Protiviti was very pleased to announce its exclusive partnership with Microsoft as the launch of the new Microsoft Supply Chain Platform was unveiled. As a platform that integrates the value chain beyond an enterprise’s four walls, the Microsoft Supply Chain Platform enables collaborations with upstream and downstream partners to deliver transparency and orchestrate the… Blogs July 31, 2023 Building a ‘metaverse for good’ requires an ethical foundation Nina Jane Patel, Bloomberg's technology columnist, recently entered the metaverse environment Horizon Venues, a newly launched virtual-reality social platform, to have a look for herself. She found the virtual, extended, augmented and mixed reality, along with other Web 3.0 tools, engaging but also a little too real. She unfortunately experienced some “creepy” encounters that included groping,… Client Story September 13, 2023 Agility in Action: IT Transformation Fosters Business Alignment This project focused on the company’s efforts to modernize its IT organization and achieve greater alignment with its business partners as their business model evolved. The project included three key phases of support, starting with an initial IT strategy and target operating model definition, transitioning to enabling value stream-focused Lean portfolio management and then a deeper dive… Whitepaper July 17, 2023 Procurement Transformation Fuels Supply Chain Resilience Discover how procurement transformation fuels supply chain resilience. Learn the key steps to adapt procurement practices for a post-pandemic world. Client Story January 10, 2024 Achieving New Heights with Transformative Inventory Management Solutions The client wanted to improve inventory management practices at a facility in its commercial HVAC division, which was seeing significant production disruptions and inventory losses. Inventory was handled by several third-party logistics companies, leading to missing material and inventory inaccuracies. Podcast September 15, 2023 Podcast ǀ Driving Legal Operations Transformation Join podcast host Chad Volkert, Protiviti Managing Director and Global Leader of Legal Consulting, and special guest Kim Wolfe, Head of Legal Business Management for Wells Fargo, discuss the impact of legal operations on the business and how legal executives are increasingly gaining a seat at the table within their organization. Blogs July 14, 2023 Smart contracts part 1: What is a smart contract? In recent years, there’s been considerable talk of blockchain and its use cases in the business world. While some of these topics have specific use cases – metaverse, decentralised finance, etc – there is one topic that underpins everything in the blockchain and decentralised space: smart contracts. Smart contracts are behind-the-scenes applications that route data, track changes and settle… Newsletter September 29, 2023 Private Equity Insights Q3 2023 In our latest issue of Private Equity Insights, we offer Protiviti’s latest thinking on ESG issues – specifically, assessing sustainability through an investment and value creation lens. We offer further thoughts on AI (including generative AI) from the board’s and the CFO’s point of view, and we bring the general counsel into the mix through an informative discussion on building legal operations… Survey December 22, 2023 2024 Top Risks in the Financial Services Industry Protiviti and NC State University’s ERM Initiative have been conducting our Top Risks Survey for the past 12 years. This journey began just as financial markets around the world were starting their long, slow recovery from the global financial crisis, and has since covered the worst global pandemic in 100 years as well as near record-low interest rates followed shortly by the fastest rate hiking… Load More