For many people, years ago there was a clear distinction between work and home life. Corporate offices were the locations for work to occur and little thought was given to work when outside those offices.
Many articles have been written recently on the future of work. All organisations are considering how workers, workplaces and the nature of work will evolve over the coming years.
Accounting can be a dark art, surrounded by a secret society of financial professionals speaking in foreign languages of accruals, prepayments and timing differences.
Reports are critical in understanding business performance. But they cost a lot to create and are regularly a source of frustration for those trying to gain meaningful insights from the data.
Many organisations receive their monthly management reports in the second or third week of the month, with board meetings being convened in the last week of the month.
Many small and medium organisations have an internal IT team while others completely outsource this function.
There are essentially two different schools of thought when deciding how to approach the applications used within an organisation.
Are you truly getting value from your IT team, whether internal or external? Are they adding value to your business, identifying strategic opportunities and managing enterprise risks?
Lots of apps could mean lots of productivity, or it could mean lots of disparate systems that don’t integrate well, are poorly implemented with little end user training and result in information silos across the organisation.
So you’ve heard about this Robotic Process Automation (RPA) idea, but what is it really? Essentially, it’s just a fancy word for innovation that focused on a series of steps in a process, and automates all or part of them.
