The January 1, 2018 implementation date for new accounting rules on revenue recognition is just around the corner, and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has been issuing guidance to help companies...
Archive - October 2017
To Thrive, Utilities Must Have a Data Analytics Strategy and a Business Intelligence Plan
The big data revolution transforming industries worldwide is bearing fruit as companies improve their understanding and analysis of their information to increase efficiency, reduce costs, predict outcomes and enhance...
Inventory: The Key to Unlocking Integrated Business Planning and an SIOP Process
Properly implementing a fully integrated and comprehensive sales, inventory and operations planning (SIOP) process can deliver value that spans demand, supply and product management, while simultaneously driving...
From Hurdle to Enabler: The Second Line’s Role in Innovation Is Evolving
Digital technologies are enabling new products and service channels, responding to changing customer demands, as well as driving efficiencies and creating competitive advantages. It is, therefore, essential that the...
Equifax: What We’ve Learned a Month Later
To say that the Equifax breach has been thoroughly covered by the media may be an understatement. Pick a medium – TV, YouTube, LinkedIn, news websites, social media – it’s been covered upside, rightside, and backwards...
Digital to the Core: Companies Must Have the Right People and Mindset to Succeed at Digital Transformation
A common mistake that companies make when pursuing digital transformation is viewing the process as a collection of technology projects, and not a business strategy that is shaped and driven by senior management and the...
Security Advisory — Hackers Target Remote Email Access
As organizations look for workable ways to accommodate an increasingly mobile work force with remote access to email via internet and personal devices, hackers are using weaknesses in two of the most common email...
Podcast from InsureTech Connect: Mission Impossible — Calculating Cyber Risk
This week at the InsureTech Connect 2017 conference in Las Vegas, Protiviti Managing Director Adam Hamm served as a panelist in a session on calculating cyber risk. In this podcast, Adam shares some of the insights and...
Transitioning Risk Management to the Digital Age
The risk management methodologies in play for most companies today were developed before the turn of the century. In effect, risk management is often an analog approach being applied in what is now a digital world. More...