Digital is driving inevitable change with all organizations. Are you driving or being pulled along reluctantly? The roundtable will discuss tips, tricks and best practices that will ensure your success as a change agent within your enterprise

The Business-Driven Analytics is more than technology. It includes the design and implementation of an extended data and analytics ecosystem spanning from technology, to data, people, processes and business outcomes. Learn how to:

– Select and prioritize Data & Analy capabilities deployment based on required business outcomes
– Design the implementation roadmap for a comprehensive data and analytics ecosystem

Today’s Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) professionals face a unique set of challenges: increase revenue, minimise costs, and align with the overall business strategy. These goals come to the finance team from CFOs under pressure to provide accurate and timely reporting as well as insightful, intelligent analysis to support executive decision making.

The finance function is the third-slowest corporate function. Successful CFOs evolve their finance structure, strategy and workforce to improve finance function efficiency.

To drive growth, you need the capacity to help the business make financially sound decisions. Successful CFOs evolve their finance strategy, structure and workforce decisions as a part of finance transformation, often considering how emerging technology can alleviate constraints. Take the first step by understanding how your function compares to those of your peers.

Although ERP vendors are promoting their AI/ML-enabled business software as a means to become intelligent, technology alone cannot make an organization smart. Application leaders should use the five building blocks described herein to achieve a truly intelligent ERP strategy.

Employee engagement lies at the heart of every digital transformation journey. While digital transformation is top of mind for every leader, the employee is often forgotten and/or ignored. This omission is more prevalent than ever as an inhibitor of business performance. The needs of your employees are changing and if you fail to adopt a digital workplace strategy you will fall behind. Successful digital transformation requires a multifaceted digital workplace approach across people, process and technology.

The emerging data and analytics platform will be defined and presented, and a clear road map for how to assemble it in your organization will be shared. Don’t panic and buy some AI yet. Start here first.
– What are the core components of your digital business technology platform?
– Where and in what form does your data and analytics platform drive your digital business success?
– How and where can you start leveraging your data and analytics today?

The new data and analytics platform is the cloud. Cloud service providers and independent software vendors are providing the basis for a new cloud based ecosystem. In this session, we will explore the state of the data and analytics platform (data management, BI/analytics/data science, data and analytics governance), the transition to cloud and its implications, and what it means to operate successfully in the cloud, or more likely, in multiple clouds.

This session will look at how organizations should use AI-enabled tools to create smarter marketing, customer support and sales experiences and thus supercharge the customer journey of the future. We will explore the importance of using AI and conversational platforms to create the customer experience of the future, and we will show how to leverage AI tools to differentiate yourself and future-proof yourself in a world of hyperintelligent customer services and sales applications.

Organizations with RPA initiatives are trying to broaden the scope of its implementation which is currently limited to some operations/LOBs. However, there are both advantages and risks to expanding the use of RPA.
This session describes some case studies and highlights the issues to be addressed to fully implement RPA in an organization and minimize the risks while achieving economies of scale.