As Alan Sugar, or should I say Baron Sugar, head honcho of the UK TV Series, The Apprentice, once said…
“Business is not about coming in, pissing my money up the wall and saying ‘Oh well, I have learnt from my mistakes and it won’t happen in the future”
So what if we treated our finance processes as if we were the owner of the company? Would we keep all the behaviour and cash leakage that currently exists?
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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?
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The bloodstream of all organisation is its sales and purchase transactions and it is undoubtedly one of your most critical data sources. To be successful with your digital transformation – data is key.
Here is an expanded example of where the transformative journey should begin.
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