Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry Typelist People Client Story Insights/Blogs Sort by: Relevance Date Filter Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Blog January 11, 2023 Create to Execute: Managing the Fine Print of Sales Contracting In Protiviti’s recent post, Easy As CPQ: Launching A Successful Sales Cycle, we outlined the Configure, Price Quote phase of the Q2C process. The next critical step in a company’s quote-to-cash (Q2C) process, and one that helps solidify accurate revenue collection, reporting and a good customer experience, is contract creation and execution. During this phase, any prior negotiations are… Blog January 4, 2023 Talent, Culture and Disruption Are Top-Ranking Risks for CFOs, Survey Shows I love to learn new words. Whether or not CFOs are familiar with this term, they undoubtedly know its connotation and are dealing with its effects every day. Permacrisis — named by the UK-based Collins English Dictionary as the 2022 word of the year — is defined as “an extended period of instability and insecurity, especially one resulting from a series of catastrophic events.” In essence, it’s a… Blog January 11, 2023 A 5-Step Plan to Operationalize DEIB As senior leadership teams evaluate their diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) strategies and objectives for 2023, they might consider the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This fundamental physics principle states that the entropy of an isolated system increases over time. This concept also applies to DEIB programs that fail to become institutionalized despite being launched with great… Blog January 12, 2023 ESG: Nine Actions CFOs and Finance Leaders Can Take Today Findings from our latest Global Finance Trends survey reveal that environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy and reporting are taking center stage as a top priority of CFOs today. Case in point: In 75% of organizations, the finance team has taken on ESG risks and issues as part of its role. With their unique blend of financial management fundamentals, risk intelligence and access to… Survey January 16, 2023 2023 Top Risks in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Industry 2022 has been an exigent year for the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) industry. Many companies continued transformations accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, even as they faced an intensifying regulatory environment, geopolitical turmoil and supply chain disruptions. Survey January 13, 2023 2023 Top Risks in the Consumer Products and Services Industry Global economic uncertainty, inflation and supply chain disruptions are major headwinds facing the consumer products and services industry group, and particularly consumer packaged goods (CPG) and retail companies, heading into the new year. Separately, for airlines and hospitality companies, the potential impact of an unexpected crisis on revenue and resistance to cultural changes are the top… Infographic February 28, 2023 Infographic | Consumer Products and Retail Executive Perspectives on Top Risks 2023 Across many retail and consumer goods categories, companies are contending with talent shortages that have increased labor costs, product availability challenges, difficulty sustaining customer loyalty and retention, and pressure to implement sustainability practices. According to results from the latest Protiviti-NC State global top risk survey, these are among the key issues being discussed in… Blog February 15, 2023 Why Data Governance Programs Are Easy to Envision, Difficult to Sustain I am often asked, with all the investments in data management and infrastructure over the last 50 years, why are we still not great with governing data? To put it simply and directly – it’s hard! Data governance programs are easy to envision conceptually, difficult to implement, and without proper care, impossible to sustain. Often data governance investments have a long ‘time to value’ ROI,… Blog February 16, 2023 Migrating SAP Workloads to AWS: Which Option to Choose? The phenomenon of cloud computing has slowly ingratiated us for many years now. Many customers have already moved entire workloads to the cloud and many vendors are now offering their products exclusively as a software as a service (SaaS) cloud platform. SAP customers still contemplating moving to the cloud will want to read this introduction to what is required when moving SAP workloads to the… Blog February 21, 2023 Adopting Automation Elevates SAP Control Testing In this two-part series, we explore how organizations can leverage robotic process automation (RPA) and other automation techniques for IT Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) testing within SAP environments. In Part 1, we reviewed the business need for RPA. Today, Part 2 covers advancements and future use-cases for RPA-based solutions. Robotic Process Automation (RPA), when deployed correctly, can… Load More
