Category: Change Management

Change Management, Leadership

Automation redundancy is fake news – here’s why – Part One

By Chris Argent, Founder, Generation CFO

I think the marketeers have got us accounting and finance people wrong…

The current messaging around technology adoption seems to be driven by three fairly negative statements;

  1. accountants and finance are missing out on all new technology benefits
  2. they are all doing something wrong or badly
  3. what we are doing is going to be automated; redundancy is imminent!

Whilst parts of these messages are possibly true, life isn’t so black and white, life isn’t changing at break neck speed and there is always another way of seeing the problem (and solution) especially if you know the profession as I do (and not just the marketing keywords).

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Change Management, Innovation, Leadership, Podcast

S1 E11 – What Mark said, Finance Business Partnering micro learning #CFOchat

“You are not just the finance guy”, Mark Neil – VP Finance at A+E Networks UK and this week we break down the area of finance business partnering and a few cool resources for you to use.

Sponsored by Qvalia

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Change Management, Digital Operations

#BQs – Are suppliers more or less important than customers?

Back in 1928, the John Lewis Partnership Founder John Spedan Lewis wrote, “The Partnership’s relationships with its suppliers must be based, as with its customers, on honesty, fairness, courtesy and promptness.”

Today JLP is held up as the business example of how to treat employee’s, customer and suppliers alike.  But more than likely the centre of your attention is your customer and their relations and you’ll do anything to please them.

But what about your suppliers?

Continue reading “#BQs – Are suppliers more or less important than customers?” →