The document provides guidance on how to get funding approval from a CFO for a SharePoint project. It discusses how CFOs think primarily in terms of financial metrics and risk management. It recommends framing SharePoint's benefits in these terms, such as increased productivity and reduced costs. Specific benefits highlighted include basic collaboration and file sharing, using SharePoint to create a finance portal, implementing enterprise content management, and automating business processes. The document provides examples and ROI calculations for demonstrating the financial value of SharePoint to a CFO.
This document summarizes a presentation given by Michael Gregory on estate planning to the Estate Planning Council of Shreveport, LA on June 28, 2012. The presentation provided an overview of Michael Gregory's background and consulting services. It also discussed estate and gift tax processes at the IRS, including classification, examination, appeals, and issue resolution. Key contacts at the IRS for matters involving valuation were also highlighted. The presentation aimed to help estate attorneys understand how to work with the IRS on valuation issues.
The document summarizes Michael Gregory's presentation to the American Society of Appraisers NYC on May 7, 2012. It discusses Gregory's background working for 28 years at the IRS before starting his own consulting business. The presentation covers topics like working with the IRS, key issue areas like discounts for lack of marketability and potential penalties, and strategic growth areas for appraisers. Gregory provides advice on issues resolution and litigation processes at the IRS.
A Peek @ Trends'15 - SIMposium'14 FINAL 2postLeon Kappelman
The document summarizes findings from the 2015 SIM IT Trends Study, which surveyed over 1000 senior IT executives. Key findings include:
1) Organizations are undergoing profound changes in how they focus technology spending, deliver IT, and structure IT departments and leadership roles.
2) IT budgets are changing slightly, with a projected 1.9% increase in 2014 and 0.9% increase in 2015 on average. Spending is shifting from hardware to cloud and business services.
3) IT organization structures continue trending away from centralized models, with 71% now having decentralized, federated or hybrid structures.
Most traditional methodologies hold that a business case is something that a project manager inherits and that its responsibility sits with a sponsor, project executive or even a governance board of some sort. However the project manager can, and should, play a critical role in assessing and critiquing the business case to guard against project failure..
SIM IT Trends Study 2013 - SIMposium SessionLeon Kappelman
Since 1980 the Society for Information Management (SIM) has conducted a survey of its senior IT executive members to gauge trends within the IT industry. SIM's members are among the most accomplished and innovative leaders in IT, so their responses help to benchmark various areas such as major management issues, largest and most worrisome IT investments, sourcing, CIO roles, staffing, spending, and salaries. SIM's IT Trends Study is widely recognized as one of the most representative barometers of the information technology industry. More information at http://www.simnet.org/?ITTrendsStudy.
The Trusted Path That Driven Big Data to Successankitbhandari32
The four D.A.T.A. questions formulated by Carsten Lund Pedersen & Thomas Ritter for big data are the following: Data, Autonomy, Technology & Accountability.
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1) Being data-driven requires an organization that supports lean development, a data-driven culture with accessible tools, shared goals, and management that fosters self-direction.
2) A data-driven culture is built through intrinsic motivation by making the benefits of data visible, not through coercion. Transparency, autonomy and ownership are important.
3) Continuous hypothesis-driven testing should be the standard approach across functions to gain insights and steer development initiatives toward business goals.
This document summarizes a presentation given by Michael Gregory on estate planning to the Estate Planning Council of Shreveport, LA on June 28, 2012. The presentation provided an overview of Michael Gregory's background and consulting services. It also discussed estate and gift tax processes at the IRS, including classification, examination, appeals, and issue resolution. Key contacts at the IRS for matters involving valuation were also highlighted. The presentation aimed to help estate attorneys understand how to work with the IRS on valuation issues.
The document summarizes Michael Gregory's presentation to the American Society of Appraisers NYC on May 7, 2012. It discusses Gregory's background working for 28 years at the IRS before starting his own consulting business. The presentation covers topics like working with the IRS, key issue areas like discounts for lack of marketability and potential penalties, and strategic growth areas for appraisers. Gregory provides advice on issues resolution and litigation processes at the IRS.
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The document summarizes findings from the 2015 SIM IT Trends Study, which surveyed over 1000 senior IT executives. Key findings include:
1) Organizations are undergoing profound changes in how they focus technology spending, deliver IT, and structure IT departments and leadership roles.
2) IT budgets are changing slightly, with a projected 1.9% increase in 2014 and 0.9% increase in 2015 on average. Spending is shifting from hardware to cloud and business services.
3) IT organization structures continue trending away from centralized models, with 71% now having decentralized, federated or hybrid structures.
Most traditional methodologies hold that a business case is something that a project manager inherits and that its responsibility sits with a sponsor, project executive or even a governance board of some sort. However the project manager can, and should, play a critical role in assessing and critiquing the business case to guard against project failure..
SIM IT Trends Study 2013 - SIMposium SessionLeon Kappelman
Since 1980 the Society for Information Management (SIM) has conducted a survey of its senior IT executive members to gauge trends within the IT industry. SIM's members are among the most accomplished and innovative leaders in IT, so their responses help to benchmark various areas such as major management issues, largest and most worrisome IT investments, sourcing, CIO roles, staffing, spending, and salaries. SIM's IT Trends Study is widely recognized as one of the most representative barometers of the information technology industry. More information at http://www.simnet.org/?ITTrendsStudy.
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The four D.A.T.A. questions formulated by Carsten Lund Pedersen & Thomas Ritter for big data are the following: Data, Autonomy, Technology & Accountability.
Building a Data-Driven Culture by Olof Hoverfält discusses how to build a data-driven culture at Sanoma Games. Key points include:
1) Being data-driven requires an organization that supports lean development, a data-driven culture with accessible tools, shared goals, and management that fosters self-direction.
2) A data-driven culture is built through intrinsic motivation by making the benefits of data visible, not through coercion. Transparency, autonomy and ownership are important.
3) Continuous hypothesis-driven testing should be the standard approach across functions to gain insights and steer development initiatives toward business goals.
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We are individuated forms of consciousness. Our purpose is to manifest love in our lives. The more of us that do this, the powerful the connection between our physical existence and our metaphysical existence. This presentation explains why.
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The document provides a strategic marketing brief for a direct mail campaign by the Haas School of Business to target executives in several Asian countries and the western United States. The goals are to promote Haas executive education programs and build brand awareness. The plan outlines developing multiple touchpoints including direct mail, email, web landing pages, and events to engage executives and generate program leads. Target lists will be sourced from business databases and segmented by industry and job role.
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Video & Presentation: http://www.proformative.com/resources/video-presentation-agile-leadership-effectively-managing-new-role-cfo
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Speaker:
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Presentation delivered at CFO Dimensions 2013 - http://www.cfodimensions.com
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Video/Presentation: http://www.proformative.com/events/rules-financial-revolutionaries-planning-understanding-impact-cloud-your-financial-technology
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Speakers:
Neil Krefsky, Sr., Director, Product Marketing, SAP Cloud
Terry Rice, Director of Finance, Living Proof
Presentation delivered at CFO Dimensions 2013 - http://www.cfodimensions.com
Track: Finance Technology | Session: 3
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Making the Leap from Business Analyst to Business ArchitectAccelare
What does business architecture do? Includes: Effective strategy - creates a direct, clear linkage between executive intent and organizational actions. Effective investments - provides a structured approach to making strategic and operational investment decisions. Effective operations – clarifies the cross-organizational operating model. Create new insights and perspectives – encourages new thinking about how the company creates value.
Business architecture attributes: Focuses on “what” the business needs to do rather than “how” it does it. And need to resonate with business thinkers.
Business architecture is about exploration not standardization. The move from business analyst starts with giving up old paradigms and a shift to ask: why, what is? what can be? and what should be?
Chief Data Officer: Overcoming Data Silos for True Business ValueCraig Milroy
Existing data silos are commonly viewed as a technology problem due to architecture, software, and hardware problems; however this problem cannot be solved by technology alone. Business engagement and support in conjunction with an enterprise approach for data availability, data sharing, and data usage are required to address the proliferation of data silos within an organization.
Data silos are created out of necessity to solve specific business problems in absence of formal enterprise architecture, data handling policies, data governance and other data-centric oversight challenges within an organization.
Customer, marketing, compliance, risk, finance and other corporate functions generate volumes of overlapping data, often with minimal consideration or understanding of tomorrow’s data volume growth.
Business’ that understand the opportunities within concepts such as Internet of Things, mobile, location, context, as well as the introduction of other unstructured open data sets, have an ability to create a competitive advantage within their target market.
These businesses are building out the office of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) to enable an effective business technology response.
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The document is a presentation about Marketo Financial Management, a budget management software. It discusses how marketers struggle to manage global marketing budgets across different sources and systems. The presentation demonstrates how Marketo Financial Management provides a centralized system to plan, track, and optimize marketing budgets and spending through features like budget planning, visual dashboards, automated data imports, and ROI reporting. It includes a customer case study and offers attendees a follow-up deep dive session on using the software for budgeting, planning and reporting.
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Reinventing the Record-to-Report Process for Worry-Free Governance, Risk & Co...Proformative, Inc.
Video & Slides: http://www.proformative.com/events/reinventing-record-report-process-worry-free-governance-risk-compliance
Statutory financial reporting and filing has experienced profound change of late. Unrelenting regulatory pressure, shortened deadlines, digital mandates, and accounting complexity make the Record-to-Report (R2R) process extremely expensive, inefficient, and fraught with risk for the Office of the CFO. This educational session will focus on highlighting the current state of the record-to-report process and understanding the expense impact of R2R on the bottom line. It will also show attendees how to identify critical R2R efficiency opportunities while minimizing risk across the financial close, compliance and disclosure management efforts. Lastly, attendees will learn best practices and things to avoid in the R2R process.
Speakers:
Mike Duderich, Finance Director, Americas R2R Operations, Unilever
Ken Fritz, Executive Vice President, Trintech
Presentation delivered at CFO Dimensions 2013 - www.cfodimensions.com
Track: Governance, Risk, Compliance | Session: 1
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The document discusses the role of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) and how to make the case for establishing this role to a company's CEO. It notes that data environments have become increasingly complex due to factors like regulatory demands, acquisitions, and the growth of digital technologies. The CDO role can help address business "pain points" with data and ensure the effective use of data as a strategic asset. An elevator pitch for the CDO should focus on improving customer insights, leveraging data for innovation, and managing regulatory demands that require better data governance. The document outlines how to define the CDO's mandate and proposes a model for the organizational structure and evolution of the Office of the CDO.
Agile@Scale presentation for PMI Łódź chapeter on 26 June 2013rulefinancial_pl
1. The document describes a story of a project that struggled to implement Agile at scale, spinning its wheels through multiple iterations and failing to deliver requirements on time. This highlighted the challenges of using Agile for complex, distributed projects.
2. It then contrasts the IT and business perspectives on Agile, noting that while IT loves Agile's iterative approach, businesses need more accountability and traceability which Agile does not always provide.
3. The presentation proposes a new Agile@Scale framework that addresses delivery, process, and people to connect predictive planning to agile execution for large projects through a staged delivery funnel.
Implementing SugarCRM for Australia's premiere business networkericavorsay
The Trans-Tasman Business Circle, Australasia’s premier business network, realized it was spending more time on administration than sales and client relationships. It chose to integrate CRM into every business process and by doing so, slashed operating costs, improved performance and changed its focus from operations to sales and from internal issues to customer delivery. Join Erica Vorsay for a look (including the highs and lows) at a project that revolutionized her business.
The document discusses expanding social business internationally. It notes that while CRM principles are universal, how they are applied can vary significantly between countries and cultures. It provides tips for international expansion, including considering geography, legal/privacy issues, change management challenges, and starting small with a pilot project. The presentation emphasizes adapting processes and tools to local needs while maintaining global standards.
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This document discusses structuring a business, including managing internal and external environments. It addresses organizational structure, legal structures like LLCs and corporations. Managing the internal environment includes human resources issues like ensuring communication, balancing schedules to reduce stress, and setting employee duties, tasks and responsibilities. Managing the external environment involves government agencies' impact and how to work with them. Effective management and developing a strong business team are also discussed.
The document discusses how leading financial market firms are re-engineering their operations to respond to volatile market conditions and increased regulatory requirements. It finds that these "Leader" firms design their operating models to be more client-focused, agile, scalable, and collaborative. They excel at both innovation and compliance and outperform other firms by bringing together their front, middle, and back offices to better serve customers.
SPSRI - how do i get this funded closing finalMike Gilronan
This document outlines the key capabilities of a content management and business process automation system. It discusses features such as search and navigation, content management libraries and templates, adaptive forms and workflows, governance settings and reports, dashboards and reporting, and how these tools can help teams work more efficiently and make better decisions. The system aims to provide a central portal for sharing information, automating processes, and ensuring compliance.
This document discusses collaboration tools and how to choose them. It begins with an introduction that outlines what will be covered, including background, tools, factors that help or hinder collaboration, and how to choose tools. It then defines collaboration and the difference between communication and collaboration. The document discusses why collaboration is important given today's world. It introduces the presenter and describes the objectives of understanding the reader's organization and needs. The rest of the document provides details on various collaboration tools, factors to consider when choosing tools, examples of setting team norms and communication plans, and finally discusses measuring results and continuing the conversation.
We are individuated forms of consciousness. Our purpose is to manifest love in our lives. The more of us that do this, the powerful the connection between our physical existence and our metaphysical existence. This presentation explains why.
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Video & Presentation: http://www.proformative.com/resources/video-presentation-agile-leadership-effectively-managing-new-role-cfo
Today, the CFO's role is more complex and challenging than ever, as he or she is expected to be involved in every aspect of the business, from providing strategic business advice and analysis to the CEO and executive team, to implementing high growth strategies while improving the company's productivity and efficiency. CFOs are also often tasked with implementing organizational controls for compliance, ensuring cost controls, and overseeing operations, IT, and core back-office functions. In this session, we will discuss how the CFO can effectively manage these diverse responsibilities by increasing real-time visibility into company performance across departments, making the business planning process transparent and improving core business processes across the organization.
Speaker:
Dan Miller, VP Finance & General Manager of the Software Vertical, NetSuite
Presentation delivered at CFO Dimensions 2013 - http://www.cfodimensions.com
Track: Leadership | Session: 4
Rules for (Financial) Revolutionaries - Planning for, and Understanding the I...Proformative, Inc.
Video/Presentation: http://www.proformative.com/events/rules-financial-revolutionaries-planning-understanding-impact-cloud-your-financial-technology
No department in your organization is more dependent on the integration best-of-breed solutions, complex workflows and in many cases homegrown technologies, than the Finance department. At the same time no other function stands to benefit as much by embracing next generation technologies. Emerging cloud technologies not only pose a significant acquisition, deployment and operations costs reduction, they also enable the finance function to scale the investments made within the enterprise-wide competitive tools such as data analytics and mobility. This session will explore how Finance Executives are exercising discipline and rigor to strike the right balance between existing and emerging technologies within their Finance functions.
Speakers:
Neil Krefsky, Sr., Director, Product Marketing, SAP Cloud
Terry Rice, Director of Finance, Living Proof
Presentation delivered at CFO Dimensions 2013 - http://www.cfodimensions.com
Track: Finance Technology | Session: 3
The document discusses challenges in measuring marketing ROI and provides lessons for improving KPIs and ROI measurement. It recommends focusing on volume, velocity and customer behavior over technology and tactics. It also stresses the importance of data quality, alignment between sales and marketing, comparing metrics over time to identify issues, and creating a marketing forecast tied to revenue. The overall message is that marketers should aspire to use metrics to understand business impact rather than to justify their own existence.
Making the Leap from Business Analyst to Business ArchitectAccelare
What does business architecture do? Includes: Effective strategy - creates a direct, clear linkage between executive intent and organizational actions. Effective investments - provides a structured approach to making strategic and operational investment decisions. Effective operations – clarifies the cross-organizational operating model. Create new insights and perspectives – encourages new thinking about how the company creates value.
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Customer, marketing, compliance, risk, finance and other corporate functions generate volumes of overlapping data, often with minimal consideration or understanding of tomorrow’s data volume growth.
Business’ that understand the opportunities within concepts such as Internet of Things, mobile, location, context, as well as the introduction of other unstructured open data sets, have an ability to create a competitive advantage within their target market.
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Chief Data Officer: Top Ten Learnings...Craig Milroy
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Reinventing the Record-to-Report Process for Worry-Free Governance, Risk & Co...Proformative, Inc.
Video & Slides: http://www.proformative.com/events/reinventing-record-report-process-worry-free-governance-risk-compliance
Statutory financial reporting and filing has experienced profound change of late. Unrelenting regulatory pressure, shortened deadlines, digital mandates, and accounting complexity make the Record-to-Report (R2R) process extremely expensive, inefficient, and fraught with risk for the Office of the CFO. This educational session will focus on highlighting the current state of the record-to-report process and understanding the expense impact of R2R on the bottom line. It will also show attendees how to identify critical R2R efficiency opportunities while minimizing risk across the financial close, compliance and disclosure management efforts. Lastly, attendees will learn best practices and things to avoid in the R2R process.
Speakers:
Mike Duderich, Finance Director, Americas R2R Operations, Unilever
Ken Fritz, Executive Vice President, Trintech
Presentation delivered at CFO Dimensions 2013 - www.cfodimensions.com
Track: Governance, Risk, Compliance | Session: 1
SPS Abu Dhabi Communicating The Business Value of SharePointNaomi Moneypenny
SPS Abu Dhabi October 5 2013, help with communicating value of SharePoint to business including executives and senior managers. Business plan elements include hard & soft elements, building credibility, fit in IT portfolio, priority of needed solution, demo of real world environment.
Talking to your CEO about the Chief Data Officer Role Craig Milroy
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Agile@Scale presentation for PMI Łódź chapeter on 26 June 2013rulefinancial_pl
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2. It then contrasts the IT and business perspectives on Agile, noting that while IT loves Agile's iterative approach, businesses need more accountability and traceability which Agile does not always provide.
3. The presentation proposes a new Agile@Scale framework that addresses delivery, process, and people to connect predictive planning to agile execution for large projects through a staged delivery funnel.
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The document discusses expanding social business internationally. It notes that while CRM principles are universal, how they are applied can vary significantly between countries and cultures. It provides tips for international expansion, including considering geography, legal/privacy issues, change management challenges, and starting small with a pilot project. The presentation emphasizes adapting processes and tools to local needs while maintaining global standards.
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The document discusses how leading financial market firms are re-engineering their operations to respond to volatile market conditions and increased regulatory requirements. It finds that these "Leader" firms design their operating models to be more client-focused, agile, scalable, and collaborative. They excel at both innovation and compliance and outperform other firms by bringing together their front, middle, and back offices to better serve customers.
This document provides an overview of project management. It defines what constitutes a project, program, and portfolio. It discusses how effective project management can provide competitive advantages to businesses. While most executives view project execution as the most important skill, implementing strategic change is seen as the most important organizational capability. The document then covers project lifecycles, key stages of managing projects, and factors to consider around appropriate levels of project management effort for different types of projects. It provides examples of what good and ineffective project management look like.
Driver6 is a leading business and technology services firm specializing in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and SAP applications. They help companies create closed-loop, environment-aware performance management systems to connect businesses and enable rapid strategy execution. Driver6 utilizes performance management techniques, leading technologies, and an understanding of connected information to redefine performance management for clients.
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Robin Ray-Howett is the CTO of ReThink. The document discusses how businesses can balance focusing on reducing costs, improving productivity, and increasing flexibility while also nurturing identity, creating the future, and managing the business. It emphasizes embracing creative leadership, driving serial mastery, and extending peripheral vision to create the space for change.
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--Automating outsourcing governance to increase efficiency and success
--Introducing a digital solution which provides automated and accurate visibility into outsourcing engagements
--Highlights on how co-management, automation, and technology can deliver a 20%+ increase in value creation
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Finally, SharePoint 2013 has been built to handle almost anything our customers can throw at it so IT Pros can spend more time managing information, delivering innovation and manage their time effectively.
SharePoint is the place to share ideas, content and the vision of your company.
It’s scalable enough to organize and manage all your information assets but it’s also designed to organize and store documents to enable personal productivity, keep teams’ in sync, and projects on track.
It’s where you go to discover experts, share knowledge and uncover connections to information and people. It’s a hub for developers to build and deploy modern apps and for designers to build eye-catching websites.
And because its built in the cloud IT Pros can manage cost, and meet the demands of compliance to manage risk.
Finally, SharePoint 2013 has been built to handle almost anything our customers can throw at it so IT Pros can spend more time managing information, delivering innovation and manage their time effectively.