Do you get meeting invites at short notice, with no agenda or documents? Do your workplace meetings start late and run over their allotted time? Do people “accept” but not show up? You’re not alone. In many organizations, meetings are far from optimal. There is no way to cover all their studied aspects while keeping…
Oracle is set to shed software developers as it enters a new era: one where AI is an integral part of its product portfolio. However, the company is emphasizing that this move is not due to the so-called SaaSpocalypse, where new AI implementations damage the rollout of traditional SaaS operations. Instead, it is seeking to…
Australia’s regulatory environment is moving fast. Yet the way most businesses manage their obligations has barely changed in a decade, and now they’re facing significant risks. PwC’s Global Compliance Survey puts the pressure in sharp relief: 90 per cent of respondents say compliance requirements have grown more complex over the past three years. And 94…
Over the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to spend time with CIOs and CDAOs across industries and geographies, from Gartner C-level communities to strategic customer partnerships to executive roundtables. Despite differences in maturity, size, and industry, the themes are remarkably consistent. Organizations feel pressure to move faster with AI They are challenged with scaling…
For the past decade, the relationship between engineering and finance has been defined by a convenient truce. As long as interest rates were near zero and growth was the primary directive, the CFO was willing to treat R&D as a black box. The mandate was simple: hire the best engineers, adopt the fastest methodologies and…
What happens when finance finally stops treating modernization as a set of disconnected projects and starts running like a single, continuous system? If 2025 was the year experimentation with AI spiked, 2026 is the year finance leaders turn that energy into operating reality. The pressure is even higher for faster cycles, sharper insight, lower risk,…
Something subtle is happening in Accounting departments. The anxiety that used to define month-end, the scramble, the spreadsheets, the waiting, is giving way to steadier, more predictable work. The reason is a structural change known as continuous close, a model that spreads reconciliations and validations across the month instead of concentrating them in one exhausting…
AI adoption is the new baseline for staying competitive in a data-driven world. But organizations that deploy AI without proper governance and cultural readiness often find themselves wasting time and resources on costly proof-of-concepts that never make it into production. This guide provides a practical, step-by-step framework to help organizations embrace AI responsibly and scale…
Three years. $80 million. A complete migration to AWS. And your credit risk team is still exporting data to Excel to build exposure reports. This paradox of modern infrastructure paired with legacy workflows defines the state of cloud transformation in financial services. Banks, insurers, and asset managers have moved massive volumes of data to the cloud.…
It’s tempting to think of AI as a new frontier requiring new rules. But in many ways, the principles of data readiness remain unchanged. Clean, well-structured, and well-documented data has always been critical to deriving insights. The difference now is that machines, rather than humans, are increasingly consuming and acting on that data, often in…