In the previous blog, we explored the first 3 critical questions that CEOs must have answers to before they commit the company’s resources to an ERP project. In this post, we will discuss about the remaining 4 questions. 

When a business embarks on an ERP project, there is a lot at stake, particularly if it is the first implementation. The investment is massive. The expectation is high, and so is the risk. At the end of the day, the ultimate responsibility for project success rests with the CEO.

Occupying approximately 35% of global workforce and still on the rise each and every year, it's Millennials - the generation of those whose coming of age is at the beginning of this new millennium. They are labeled as "tech-savvy", "creative" or "energetic", "ambitious" etc,. But those words don't fully represent this generation.

A study by the jobs analytics firm Burning Glass has revealed which business skills saw the fastest-growing demand between 2011 and 2015 by analysing millions of job ads on more than 40,000 career websites.

There is a growing consensus among industry analysts that IoT (Internet of Things) and IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) are becoming the main drivers of the next Industrial Evolution, which will completely transform how manufacturing, supply chain, and services problems are solved.

JR Watkins is a US-based home care, body care, and gourmet food products manufacturer. Throughout most of its 150-year history, JR Watkins relied on direct sales. The company underwent a big change 10 years ago and started working with retailers and wholesalers.

Tableau 10.2 is now available for Tableau Online, the cloud-based business analytics platform for enterprises. The other two Tableau offerings, Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server, will soon be running with this latest version as well. Users can still use their current versions of Tableau Desktop to publish to their Tableau Online 10.2 sites.

The Business Intelligence and Data Analytics market has undergone dramatic changes in recent years. The most recognisable one is the shift to self-service solutions, i.e. those capable of empowering ordinary business users to understand data and turn it into insights with little technical skills required.

The adoption of Financial Shared Services Centre has revolutionised the strategic roles of the finance function in global corporations by delivering more added value to other functions and processes via their analytics and decision-making capabilities. Such centres have evolved to not only focus on traditional tasks, such as costs reduction but also enhance organisations’ effectiveness and efficiency in many ways.

The consulting firm Protiviti and North Carolina State University’s Poole College of Management collected responses from 735 board members & finance executives about 30 risk issues that will likely have an impact on their companies in 2017.