Agenda
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 07:00 AM - 06:45 PM EDT
Registration and Information hours for the day.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 09:30 AM - 10:15 AM EDT
More Information coming soon!
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
Join us for refreshments in a brief break between sessions.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT
Peter Nagy, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Zero percent of CFOs believe that FBP primarily spend time on value creation. FBPs struggle to maximize their impact due to poor internal branding, unwieldy responsibility scopes and excessively siloed ways of working. Autonomous finance will offer eight actionable opportunities to overcome these three legacy shortcomings. Join this session to incorporate each opportunity into your business partnering strategy.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT
Arun Chandrasekaran, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Thriving in times of intense economic and social volatility requires organizations to find new forms of efficiency in their operations, scale their productivity and pioneer new business models. CFOs must use our trends to enable their organizations to succeed.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT
Peter Brannigan, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
CFOs undertaking digital transformations encounter difficult prioritization, stakeholder resistance and change management challenges. To ensure their transformations stay on the right path, CFOs must ensure their transformation team engages in collaborative solution planning, early stakeholder engagement and strong project governance.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT
Nisha Bhandare, VP Analyst, Gartner
As business environment becomes increasingly dynamic, CFOs need to develop new and quicker ways to support the business. Learn how finance can increase agility and deliver innovation quickly by embracing a composable technology strategy that transforms their technology to be modular, flexible and adaptive to business needs.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM EDT
Clement Christensen, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Data governance is not alluring. Few business leaders care and after numerous attempts at data governance, most finance leaders have given up. And yet, data governance is foundational to unlocking digital business and AI. In this ask the expert session, Gartner experts will provide practical advice on where to start successful data governance efforts that last.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM EDT
Vaughan Archer, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Economic uncertainty and funding constraints mean this era of digital investments will need to be offset with cost savings. But only 11% of cost initiatives result in sustained savings, harming shareholder value and financial credibility. Join this session to learn how CFOs overcome stakeholder apathy by delivering compelling cost narratives that motivate budget holders to work with rather than against finance.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM EDT
Marcus Marion, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Many organizations are utilizing traditional ROI metrics to evaluate the performance of their digital initiative. Unfortunately, using these traditional metrics leads to a misalignment in the expected outcomes, goals, and benefits of adopting digital technologies in the workplace. During this session, we will discuss best practices for tracking and measuring the impact of digital investments.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM EDT
More information coming soon!
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM EDT
Mark D. McDonald, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The prospect of an autonomous finance organization is compelling but getting started seems complex and difficult. This session introduces the AI-forward framework that includes the steps that leading companies are taking to bridge the gap between the semi-automated function of today to an autonomous finance organization of tomorrow.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM EDT
Caroline Walsh, VP, Team Manager, Gartner
Women in the United States left the labor force in droves since 2020. As jobs return to prepandemic levels, women — especially women of color — are slower to return. The typical approaches organizations have of supporting women — parental leave, childcare subsidies, mentoring programs —aren't having the desired effect. Join this session for innovative ideas for bringing women back to work and supporting them there.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM EDT
Marc Kerremans, VP Analyst, Gartner
The finance function’s ability to deliver on its data & analytics promise to drive improved business decision making gets constrained by the lack of visibility and insights into what is happening in the daily ways of working. Process mining will continuously provide insights into improving and optimizing speed, quality and efficiency and prepare processes for new ways of operating.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM EDT
Mike Helsel, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
As CEOs and boards continue to demand greater digitalization, finance IT can both accelerate and support this transition. Finance IT allows chief financial officers to own their future technology and establish an organization to drive growth.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM EDT
Emily Connelly, Director, Research, Gartner
Finance transformation leaders must decide how to structure their teams based on their organization's level of expertise, resourcing and urgency for transformation. This session describes four common archetypes of finance transformation team structure and outlines the strengths and weaknesses of each.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 02:30 PM EDT
Join other attendees for lunch and take advantage of the opportunity to network and catch up on the day's activities so far.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM EDT
Nisha Bhandare, VP Analyst, Gartner
Composable technology is gaining traction among finance to enable agility and innovation in a dynamic business environment. Learn how to use finance capability framework as the first step in building a composable technology roadmap to visualize tradeoffs and align technology decisions with strategic objectives that maximize business outcomes.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM EDT
Kristin Moyer, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Gartner survey data shows that investors view environmental sustainability as one of the next big growth opportunities. But achieving a high level of maturity is expensive and not the right approach for everyone. Finance executives should identify what the right level of environmental sustainability maturity is for their enterprise, and if and when to advance levels.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM EDT
Nathan Bell, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Finance is already behind the curve on innovation in Data & Analytics (D&A), and recessionary pressures risk it falling further behind. Join this session to learn how leading organizations are evolving their finance D&A approaches and protecting critical investments to evolve D&A despite cost pressures.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM EDT
Hilary Richards, VP Analyst, Gartner
Eighty-three percent of digital finance talent believe the skills acquired in the finance function will help further their careers, but only 58% believe they currently have many career advancement opportunities in finance. CFOs struggle to attract and retain digital talent because the talent pool is unclear about their career possibilities. Join this session to learn how existing management practices alienate digital finance talent and how to improve the retention of critical talent.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM EDT
Matthew Mowrey, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
What technologies are other finance organizations really using? Separate hype from reality in this session and learn about the technology investments other finance organizations are making. Gain a research-based understanding of various technologies’ current usage and perceived value, as well as where finance leaders intend to place technology bets in the near future.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:15 PM EDT
Nisha Bhandare, VP Analyst, Gartner
The growing importance of technology to transform finance is driving CFOs to become directly engaged in the strategy, planning and execution of finance technology initiatives. Join this session with your peers to ask a Gartner expert your most pressing questions on the best practices to incorporate into your technology decision and roadmap process.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:15 PM EDT
Dennis Gannon, VP, Research, Gartner
As CFOs invest further in digital technology to support the autonomy of the finance function, their playbooks for managing finance cost must change. Join this peer-to-peer discussion lightly facilitated by a Gartner expert to talk about strategies for driving efficiency in finance, as more and more of the cost base is consumed by technology expenses and a key finance digital talent becomes ever more expensive.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:15 PM EDT
Peter Nagy, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Join this peer-to-peer discussion lightly facilitated by a Gartner expert to discuss best practices and lessons learned for preparing Finance Business Partners for an autonomous Finance future. Topics for discussion will include strategies for defining high-impact FBP competencies and responsibility scopes, along with scalable organizational design models for these communities.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 03:15 PM - 03:45 PM EDT
More information coming soon!
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM EDT
Frances Karamouzis, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Hyperautomation and intelligent automation investments continue unabated. However, the most elusive element is still a struggle — aligning the initiatives with a clear, unambiguous, direct line of site to value and the overall journey to autonomous finance. In this session, we will provide direct links to automation, augmentation and autonomy.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM EDT
Jo Ann Rosenberger, Distinguished VP, Advisory, Gartner
CFOs and executive finance leaders will see how to use three financial models for leverage and bargaining power as this session walks through three technology and cloud negotiation scenarios. Attendees will see how to take simple and ready-to-use templates and checklists to enhance their organization's negotiation playbook using the financial models TCA/TCO, NPV, and cash flow vs. P&L impact for negotiation leverage and bargaining power.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM EDT
Clement Christensen, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Deploying AI requires new skills, such as coding, data science and data engineering. Success will require a strategy for when to hire new talent, develop internal talent, or outsource. This session will help Finance leaders navigate these options and deliver a talent sourcing strategy for an AI-driven, autonomous finance function.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM EDT
Peter Nagy, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
93% of finance leaders surveyed in 2020 subscribed to a common set of 2025 objectives — Finance was to become digital, data-driven and highly scaled. Three years on, many teams still lag behind these goals. Join this session to learn how to accelerate finance towards the consensus 2025 view across four non-negotiable pillars: data, delivery models, process and technology, and people.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM EDT
Michelle Carlsen, Director Analyst, Gartner
Discovery driven planning is a powerful framework for evaluating strategic investments with a high level of uncertainty. It leverages a practical set of analysis tools, such as reverse income statement analysis and addressable market calculations, to challenge conventional thinking around key assumptions and operational requirements. The process enables CFOs to identify poor investments as quickly and cheaply as possible.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:45 PM EDT
Dennis Gannon, VP, Research, Gartner
In times of economic uncertainty, it is absolutely vital that CFOs are able to provide assurance to their boards that the organization is prepared for the unknown. Join this peer-to-peer discussion lightly facilitated by a Gartner expert to share how to form a strong relationship with the board, and the tactics that CFOs can use during and between board meetings to be a more effective partner.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:45 PM EDT
Sanjay Champaneri, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Join this session with your peers to ask a Gartner expert your most pressing questions on what to consider when evaluating the use of an outsourcing provider to take on the task of digital finance transformation.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:45 PM EDT
Valeria Di Maso, Director Analyst, Gartner
This interactive session will guide FP&A leaders in selecting the correct KPIs for their organizations, considering the complex data landscape they have to deal with and the continuous changes in company goals and objectives driven by high uncertainty in the marketplace. We will focus on choosing actuals and actionable KPIs; how to connect them to the organization's goals; and reporting strategy.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:45 PM EDT
Melanie O'Brien, VP Analyst, Gartner
CFOs must update how organizations invest in and manage ESG strategy. Organizations with a mature approach to sustainability will update investment criteria, invest in practices that will ensure long term financial sustainability and capitalize on new opportunities created by sustainable business practices.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 04:30 PM - 05:15 PM EDT
Join us for refreshments in a brief break between sessions.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 / 05:15 PM - 06:00 PM EDT
More information coming soon!
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 07:30 AM - 05:30 PM EDT
Registration and Information hours for the day.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 09:00 AM - 09:45 AM EDT
More information coming soon!
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 09:45 AM - 10:30 AM EDT
Join us for refreshments in a brief break between sessions.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
Peter Nagy, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The Controllership is the largest – and most underappreciated - Finance subfunction. Digital innovations are usurping Controllership teams’ legacy responsibilities, calling into question the function’s value proposition. This session will introduce the emerging trends that are shaping tomorrow’s Controllership, from process-level innovations, to continued digital acceleration, and an emerging decision support mandate.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
Matthew Mowrey, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
FP&A technology is underutilized and organizations continue to turn to Excel to manage their planning processes. This session addresses the evolutionary path FP&A technology will take in the next three to five years, the impact it will have on the FP&A organization, and key actions FP&A leaders can take now to maximize their investment and avoid costly mistakes.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
With cost pressures and macroeconomic headwinds compressing margins, digitalization is key to maintaining sustainable profitability, whether via new digital revenue or improved organizational productivity. Yet, 67% of companies do not realize the intended benefits from enterprise digital spending. This session will share how progressive CFOs are driving greater enterprise digital cohesion to realize better business outcomes.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
Geraldine Garaud, Director Analyst, Gartner
After agreeing upon a strategy, a lack of discipline is the key barrier to finance transformation. On paper, organizations determine the transformation but underestimate the execution challenges, especially the cultural shift required by finance employees. Sixty-nine percent of finance transformation leaders agree that their organization’s transformation is moving slower than expected. Join this session for advice on how to get your finance transformation back on track.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM EDT
Nathan Bell, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Finance leaders often hear how driver maps and metrics cascades can be leveraged to anchor their data governance to business outcomes, and unlock advanced analytics including AI/ML, predictive and prescriptive analytics. However, it isn't always clear how they are different and where they work best together. We will discuss best practices on leveraging both frameworks in your D&A strategy.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM EDT
Nick Duffy, Director Analyst, Gartner
Process mining plays a fundamental role in creating visibility and removing constraints, slowing the digital process transformation. It lays the groundwork for CFOs to drive process speed, quality and efficiency. This session will help participants understand how to practically leverage process mining tools within finance to move towards a state of process hyperautomation.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM EDT
Geraldine Garaud, Director Analyst, Gartner
Finance transformation complexity is consistently rising — most finance transformations today will feature a diversity of data, people, processes, technology and delivery model initiatives. This complexity amplifies the need to make smart up-front investments in finance transformation strategy development support. Join this peer-to-peer discussion lightly facilitated by a Gartner expert to share your experiences and gain insight from peers on how to best navigate the finance transformation strategy consulting market.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM EDT
Marcus Marion, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Many organizations have made significant digital investments to transform and optimize business operations. Unfortunately, a corresponding investment in change management is not made in many instances, resulting in diminishing digital ROI. This session will discuss how best-in-class organizations establish change management plans that promote digital ROI preservation.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT
Dixie John, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
A common failing of ERP strategies is lack of alignment to business value. Organizations know they need to 'be better', but they don’t know where and they don’t know how. This session will tell you why that is, and more importantly, how to engage business leaders to measure and observe business value of ERP initiatives.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM EDT
Graham Waller, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
As enterprises grapple to implement hybrid work models during 2022, there are large differences in the resulting outcomes. This session will highlight leading practices uncovered from our research that help drive talent attraction, retention, collaboration and performance outcomes.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM EDT
Mark D. McDonald, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Finance professionals agree that finance teams will need new skills to support a more technologically sophisticated finance organization of the future. What do those skills look like? How will finance teams evolve? What can teams do now to prepare for the future without the disruption of retraining the entire organization? Use this session to prepare your teams for the near-term and long-term demands that lie ahead.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM EDT
Clement Christensen, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
CEOs have tasked Finance with driving greater use of data in decision-making, but most teams have run into an age-old challenge: human nature. Human beings don't remember data, we remember stories. For teams creating self-service tools and black box advanced analytics, this session will provide guidance on how to tell compelling, data-driven stories in a digital world.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM EDT
Hilary Richards, VP Analyst, Gartner
Digital technologies are providing a once-in-a-generation chance to transform the accounting close but many are finding themselves hamstrung by a process that isn't ready for digital. Time spent optimizing the close is not yielding the expected digital readiness, leaving most accounting departments struggling to create further efficiencies. Join this session to learn how to strengthen the resilience of the close, which is a more effective way to prepare for digital.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM EDT
Nick Duffy, Director Analyst, Gartner
The amount of spend on digital business continues to grow so there has never been a more important time to get Finance IT right. No one would consider constructing a skyscraper without a team of engineers, yet many finance transformation leaders are attempting to build an autonomous finance function without dedicated Finance IT expertise. Use this session to justify the need for a dedicated Finance IT function and learn how to set up Finance IT for success.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM EDT
Nisha Bhandare, VP Analyst, Gartner
Over 90% executives acknowledge they did not do enough to manage the organizational turmoil or are unsure how to minimize the distress during and after an ERP implementation. Join this session with your peers to ask a Gartner expert your most pressing questions on how to prepare your organization for an ERP to minimize the business disruption and maximize business outcomes.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM EDT
Geraldine Garaud, Director Analyst, Gartner
Finance organizations are undergoing significant transformations, but few report successful outcomes. One of the contributing failures is the lack of centralized roles with clear responsibilities tied to finance transformation. To mitigate this deficiency, many CFOs are supplementing their team with a dedicated finance transformation leader role. This session will guide CFOs in securing the right profile.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM EDT
Join other attendees for lunch and take advantage of the opportunity to network and catch up on the day's activities so far.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM EDT
Jim McGittigan, VP Analyst, Gartner
CFOs should collaborate with CIOs to ensure they are running IT like a business and effectively managing their IT budget. They should then build a partnership with the CIO to ensure all IT and other technology spend is measured and effectively optimized, regardless of who owns the budget.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM EDT
Digital transformation of the accounting close process can fail in the absence of a coordinated effort between the Controllership and other functions whose processes impact the close. Join this session to learn how to improve functional alignment when undertaking digital initiatives to transform your close process.
Learn how strengthening the resilience of the close is a more effective way to prepare for digital than simply optimizing the close. In particular, we will discuss:
* The differences between a process-optimization focus and a process-resilience focus
* Establishing a vision for a digitized close process
* Building a decision-making infrastructure that is appropriate for a digital environment
* Sensing disruptions to the close process from upstream digitization decisions
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM EDT
Graham Waller, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The only way to solve today’s talent crises, labor shortages and employee burnout is with work design that empowers human adaptability. Intelligent technology must also be unleashed to automate ethically. The future requires workforce autonomy and autonomous systems melded to drive sustainable growth.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM EDT
Vaughan Archer, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Autonomous finance is the catalyst we have needed to transform L&D within finance. By 2024, 33% of the skills needed in 2019 will be redundant, while the total number of skills will continue to grow at 5.4% annually. However, only 42% of staff currently feel supported in learning and developing new skills. Join this session to learn the four L&D actions that underpin successful autonomous finance journeys.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM EDT
Ashwani Gupta, Director Analyst, Gartner
77% of CFOs report a lack of digital talent to drive finance transformation. CFOs realize this urgent need but feel challenged in attracting digital finance talent and upskilling existing staff with digital skills in the midst of a tight labor market. Failure to address these challenges will lead to failed digital transformation and talent strategies. Join this session to learn the strategies to acquire digital finance talent and upskill existing staff.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM EDT
More information coming soon!
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 03:15 PM - 03:45 PM EDT
Join us for refreshments in a brief break between sessions.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 03:30 PM - 04:15 PM EDT
Marco D'Ascoli, Director Analyst, Gartner
Increasingly frequent and complex finance transformations can lead to employee fatigue, putting project success at risk. Join this session with your peers to ask a Gartner expert your most pressing questions on how to deal with change fatigue in your organization and increase the chances of success for your transformations.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 03:30 PM - 04:15 PM EDT
Controllers are seeking opportunities and guidance on how to successfully automate core accounting processes - which technologies to leverage and how to gain their trust to meet the compliance and accounting standards. In this session you will learn about the path to the Continuous Accounting in the consideration of Composable Finance Technology Strategy. We will help to answer questions when to automate and when to standardize.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM EDT
Hilary Richards, VP Analyst, Gartner
Technology changes and hybrid work models bring many benefits but can come with unintended costs like employee fatigue. Employee fatigue can damage employee engagement and intent to stay. Join this session to learn strategies to energize weary finance employees and reduce change fatigue — even though the pace of change shows no sign of slowing down.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM EDT
Valeria Di Maso, Director Analyst, Gartner
CFOs working to improve the quality of their reporting, analytics and decision support often find that data quality is their biggest hurdle. This presentation outlines how finance can reset its approach to data governance by adopting the sufficient truths approach to better inform organizational decision making.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM EDT
Sanjay Champaneri, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
A digital finance shared services organization can seize the opportunity to significantly reduce the cost of finance and set its course to become the finance function’s digital transformation partner. Transformation leaders should join this session to learn how the three-year strategic roadmap repurposes SSOs and pivots them to new responsibilities that enable accelerated and sustainable digitization efforts.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM EDT
Jim McGittigan, VP Analyst, Gartner
Explore the need to better undertand both IT and other technology spend across the enterprise. Assess and define what technology spend you should be tracking at an enterprise level and why. Implement visibillity and governance over enterprise technology spending so that both cost and value are clearly understood and effectively optimized.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM EDT
Frances Karamouzis, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Hyperautomation and intelligent automation investments continue unabated. Yet, only a small percentage of organizations can showcase value or benefits that are identifiable, traceable and auditable. In this presentation, we showcase the proof points of hyperautomation by providing case studies from Gartner's Hyperautomation 100 Club that are case studies that have delivered over 100 million dollars in value or triple-digit benefits.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM EDT
Tamara Shipley, VP Analyst, Gartner
Finance transformation leaders wrestle with identifying and implementing improvements that will have the biggest impact on outcomes. This session outlines how to define process excellence and prioritize the most worthy areas to improve, create and equip teams to implement technology-driven improvement and upgrade performance measures to ensure improvements are achieved and sustained.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM EDT
Marco D'Ascoli, Director Analyst, Gartner
Increasingly frequent and complex finance transformations can lead to employee fatigue, putting project success at risk. This session describes how finance transformation leaders can shift their change strategy from top-down to a business-led, employee-centric approach that ensures success.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM EDT
Tamara Shipley, VP Analyst, Gartner
The global process owner (GPO) role is a must-have role in ensuring focus and accountability for standardizing and improving end-to-end processes like P2P, O2C and R2R that are often executed across functions, business units and geographies. This session outlines a GPO's key responsibilities and competencies, where they should report, how to kickstart a GPO program and measure their success.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM EDT
In the current environment of shifting economic fundamentals and tepid returns, we can no longer afford to adhere to legacy financial planning. Beyond basic changes, efforts to transform financial planning have not delivered business impact. Through dynamic planning finance organizations can provide their business with agile decision to quickly identify, assess and act on new opportunities.
Thursday, June 01, 2023 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM EDT
Rajesh Kandaswamy, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Emerging technologies serve as the foundation of new products and services and have become as the key levers of competitive advantage in firms. CFOs need to understand at a high level what the key technologies are and what they offer. In this session, we will answer questions on what the technologies are, what their current state is, and what they offer enterprises.