Cost reduction and cash optimisation
CFOs are charged with increasing business value and realising enterprise benefits through immediate and sustainable cost reduction. CFOs must also identify opportunities for tactical and strategic cash management improvement with the goal of maximising return on investment. IBM consulting offerings are designed to help CFOs lower their costs, improve cash flow and increase profit margins.
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| Project financing: Redefining IT enablement | Benefits of IT project financing in the new economic environment (prepared by Robert Frances Group) |
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| IBM business innovation solutions supported by IBM Global Financing | To help CFOs finance new business initiatives, IBM Global Financing provides deep financial resources that can help optimise the expected benefits and realise the full value of business innovation. |
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| Thinking through uncertainty: CFOs scrutinise non-financial risk | This exploration of risk management practices at ten diverse organisations found that the finance function is getting far more involved in the art and science of non-financial risk management. |
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| Optimising finance operations | IBM’s finance operating model optimisation is an approach to determine current levels of finance effectiveness and capability, identify areas for improvement, and create the migration strategy and roadmap. |
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| Finance transformation workbench | Accelerate analysis of your organisations finance function, and development of clear and concise finance transformation opportunities, supported by the application of IBMs world-class finance function solution offerings. |
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| World-class treasury organisation | Examine treasury's role in financial services, and how technology can impact transactions and reporting. |
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| Financial management consulting services | IBM delivers comprehensive solutions — strategy, process, applications, infrastructure and technology — through financial management offerings that help CFOs address new risks and challenges, drive enterprise-wide profit improvement and increase shareholder value. |
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| CFO study assessment tool | Use this tool to understand the maturity level of your finance organisation and identify areas for further discussion with an IBM consultant. |
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| International Financial Reporting Standards | IBM has significant capabilities, experience and alliances to help support the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) conversion. Your enterprise will benefit through a proven approach for the full lifecycle of the IFRS conversion process. |
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| Supporting IFRS compliance with SAP Enterprise Resource Planning System | This paper addresses how IT is impacted by adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards. It focuses on handling IFRS Fixed Assets/Property, Plant and Equipment requirements, as well as parallel reporting needs for companies using SAP as their Enterprise Resource Planning system. |
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| Balancing risk and performance with an integrated finance organisation | By mandating common standards, implementing a standard chart of accounts, building common data definitions and deploying common processes across the finance function, enterprises can transform into integrated finance organisations. This will position them to be more responsive, more flexible, and to outperform their peers. |
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| Intelligent cost reduction | Learn how to increase business value and realise benefits through immediate and sustainable cost reduction. |
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| Finance transformation — Finance strategy and finance operations improvement | IBM’s financial transformation services, including strategy and operations improvement, are designed to deliver cost savings through faster, more successful and enduring business transformation. |
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| Business performance management | IBM’s business performance management services are focused on helping finance organisations use information as an asset to support and enhance business planning and forecasting, performance monitoring and business intelligence. |
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| Finance enterprise applications | IBM’s financial management practice delivers improvements to finance organisations through Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions that drive transformation of the finance function by focusing on six major areas critical to on-time, on-budget and on-benefit delivery. |
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| Why leading CFOs view business process outsourcing as a means to success | Business process outsourcing enables CFOs to address cost pressures without suppressing long-term growth, and allows them to identify opportunities to restructure and optimise operations for sustainable operational excellence. |
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| Orchestrating risk-adjusted performance management | CFOs are well positioned to encourage a more holistic and cross-silo view of risk. Integrating risk into planning, budgeting, reporting and forecasting can lead to better decisions through risk-adjusted plans and budgets. |
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| Cash optimisation assessment | Cash optimisation assessment identifies opportunities for tactical and strategic cash management improvement with the goal of maximising return on investment. |
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| Strategic profit improvement | Strategic profit improvement analyses key functional and financial areas of your company and benchmarks against key industry performance indicators to identify potential and sustainable improvement areas. |
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| Business analytics and optimisation | Business analytics and optimisation helps your organisation run smarter by bringing together foundational business intelligence, performance management and advanced analytics with proven models that accelerate time-to-value. |
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| Journey along an information-led transformation | New intelligence addresses the question: How can we take advantage of the wealth of information, available in real-time and from a multitude of sources, to make more intelligent decisions? |
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| Business analytics and optimisation for the intelligent enterprise | Enterprises are making important decisions without access to the right information. New analytics, coupled with advanced business process management capabilities, afford an opportunity to close gaps. |
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| CIO study: Implications for the C-suite | Through interviews with more than 2,500 business and public-sector CIOs worldwide, this study provides insight into how those CIOs make innovation real, raise the ROI of IT and expand business impact. |
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| Succeeding in a volatile world | Technologies now allow managers to monitor the real-time flow of business activity using a series of sophisticated alerts, tolerances, and exceptions. Finance will have more time to complete rich analyses, and managers will have more time to evaluate alternatives and make better, more confident decisions. |
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| IBM Cognos Virtual Finance Forum 2009: Practical advice and proven practices | IBM Cognos Virtual Finance Forum 2009 offers CFOs practical advice and proven practices designed to help drive financial performance. From your desk, get access to compelling conference sessions and speakers. |
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| Toward transparency and sustainability: Building a new financial order | To comply with the requirement for greater transparency in the financial markets industry, most institutions will need to adopt a different business model — one that delivers sustainable returns. |
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| IBM Global Chief Financial Officer Study 2010 | Register for your electronic copy of the IBM Global Chief Financial Officer Study 2010, available March 2, 2010. |
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