Seeing the Future of Financial Transformation

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Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 2:00pm - Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 3:00pm

Our world is clearly in transition to new paradigms that require new approaches to managing for success. Finance can only remain relevant by transforming as well. What it takes to succeed today is harnessing the knowledge and creativity of the entire organization, especially those that work at the intersection between the company and its customers. But how do you empower your employees and adapt to change without losing control?

In this webinar, featuring Business Finance planning and forecasting guru Steve Player, you’ll see how the office of Finance can use new approaches and new ways of thinking to transform performance management systems and drive enhanced productivity, performance and profitability throughout an organization.

Join and us and learn:

How to turn budget-driven management processes from slow, rigid and expensive models into more adaptive systems that encourage the right behavior;
The value of organizing around a network of accountable teams, not centralized functions;
Ways to establish incentives based on value created rather than past approaches that result in sub-optimization and gaming;
How to improve accountability by basing controls on relative measures with fast, frequent feedback, not on budget variances.

ABOUT The Transforming Finance Webcast Series

Finance organizations have been trying to transform for years. While research shows that the cost of finance as a percentage of revenue has dropped, have organizations truly changed? Or have they merely shrunk? This Finance Transformation webcast series presents a dialogue with Finance leaders who are successfully transforming their finance organizations to create greater enterprise value.

Learn some of the key strategies and best practices CFOs and Finance Executives are using to improve business performance and shareholder value while actively improving operational effectiveness and efficiency.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Steve Player is the North American Program Director for the Beyond Budgeting Round Table. He has also co-authored and edited five books on performance management and is a regular contributor on the subject of finance transformation for Business Finance. His latest book Future Ready: How to Master Business Forecasting is now available, and published by John Wiley & Sons.