Harvard Business Review on Transformational Journeys: Modern Business Planning

Back in 2013, Ventana Research reported that just four percent of accounting and finance executives agreed on the need to make business and social collaboration a priority for their organizations. Since then, this number has grown substantially, and Harvard Business Review explores some of the main drivers of this change within finance departments, some of the challenges that slow down the rate of transformation in business planning, and why cloud-based SaaS systems are well-suited to support modern business planning.

In this whitepaper, you’ll learn about:

• The ways in which cloud-based solutions help organizations, and why some executives mistakenly believe it’s best to avoid moving their on-premises systems into the cloud.
• How to enable finance teams to act on the story behind the numbers by presenting data in an easier-to-consume manner, even as organizations grapple with growing data volumes.
• How to make a compelling business case for implementing a cloud-based FP&A solution.
• Real-world case studies from organizations as diverse as Blackstone Group and Hubspot to an Ivy League university – who successfully transformed their FP&A capabilities.