The CFO is often the chief executive officer's best line of defense when it comes to today's marketplace volatility. The findings in the 2010 IBM Global CFO study validates this, showing that leaders in the boardroom and in Finance organizations are now working together in an expanding partnership role that is nothing less than critical for the top-performing enterprise.

Get the paper, "Exploring alternative delivery models for stronger financial performance."

This executive white paper takes a closer look at the 2010 study results and explores how alternative service delivery models can rapidly transform your business, provide robust decision-making power and deliver sustainable competitive advantage. In this companion paper to the 2010 IBM CFO Study, we delve deeper into the strategic steps that top performers have taken to drive not only greater finance efficiency and increased business insight, but overall workload distribution and increased process improvement across the enterprise.

In this executive white paper, learn more about:

• "Accelerators" that leading Finance organizations have implemented to enable process optimization and business insight
• Correlation between standards, global process ownership, and growth in financial performance
• Impact of business process outsourcing and the greater adoption of standards
• Ways to focus less on transactional activities and more on control, risk and strategic decision-making
• Enhanced performance of a business process outsourcing model over a shared services model