A well-established culture of analytics can accelerate application, amplify its power, and steer away from risky outcomes. Today’s fast-moving business landscape requires that all decisions big and small are backed by thoughtful analytics, and there’s a tremendous opportunity for the CFO to spearhead this transformation and guide the company through an imperative organisational challenge.

But where should you, as a finance leader, focus in order to make this happen? How can you take a leading role in building a culture of data-driven decision-making?

In this workshop, you will cover the following:

·      Why data culture matters in finance

·      Infusing analytics into the decision-making process and instilling an ‘analytics-first’ mentality

·      Organising and governing analytics capabilities across the organization

·      Sourcing and deploying analytics talent

The use of data and technology is often the first way finance looks to add strategic value to the company, but the key to success may actually lie in how effective finance leaders are at implementing the change with finance teams who are doing that work. Effective people management in any transformation must look beyond the moment and toward a defined ideal future state.

In this workshop, you will discuss:

·      Evolve slowly or ‘big bang’ transformation?

·      Why is your change management not sticking?

·      Delivering well-planned, consistent communications that go both ways

·      Dealing with the aftermath: What happens when communications fall apart?

·      Getting the right sponsorship and keeping the transformation on the corporate ‘radar’

Overhauling finance operations is one of the biggest challenges that a company can take on. The pressure on finance to reduce cost while driving enterprise value dictates the finance technology agenda. Finance organisations need to review new technology deployment models to determine whether existing applications, infrastructure and system-integration solutions provide the functionality they need to meet future business requirements. But what are the best practices for doing this?

In this workshop, you will explore:

·      Why do transformations fail? And how to avoid roadblocks?

·      Reviewing your finance IT architecture

·      Driving meaningful change with analytics

·      Providing clarity of task ownership and instilling a continuous improvement mindset

Enjoy a beverage with your fellow pre-conference day attendees and get ready for the conference kick off tomorrow!