How does a business go extinct? It’s not for lack of product improvement ideas, says futurologist, professor and business consultant Dr. Stefan Gröner. Typically, it’s for lack of understanding what customers really...
Archive - June 2022
A Hot Jobs Market Requires Organizations to Strengthen Talent Acquisition Strategies
Fierce competition among organizations for too few workers has created a job seeker’s market. Unemployment has remained at a historically low rate of 3.6% since the end of April, and employers were seeking to fill 11.5...
New IT Audit Survey From Protiviti and ISACA Ranks Cybersecurity, Privacy, Data and Regulatory Compliance as Top Technology Challenges
Where to even begin? An uncertain global economy, volatile geopolitical developments, a persistent pandemic, a changing regulatory landscape, and an evolving catalog of technology risk concerns have created mounting...
Evolving No Surprises Act Requirements Continue to Be a Heavy Lift — Here’s How Healthcare Providers and Facilities Can Remain Diligent
The aptly named No Surprises Act (NSA), signed into law in December 2020 with an implementation deadline of January 1, 2022, is meant to help protect patients from financial hardship due to surprise medical bills. Such...
Labor Shortages Challenge Supply Chains to Automate While Retaining Employees and Their Trust
Among the business topics that have dominated the press over the past two years, supply chain difficulties and labor shortages have certainly been at the top. But the two are not mutually exclusive. Organizations across...
Balancing Opportunity and Risk: Security for RPA Platforms
Robotic process automation (RPA) was first used to execute predetermined, rules-based tasks twenty or so years ago. Since then, RPA has functioned as a virtual workforce for businesses, which benefit from its power to...
Demystifying Digital Transformation in Finance
Digital transformation in finance has been on the docket for years. So, why do organizations still struggle? The status quo is filled with manual, spreadsheet-driven workflows and fractured application ecosystems that...
Adaptable, Yet Rooted in Values: A Primer on Company Culture With A2A’s Chief People and Transformation Officer
How do you create a company culture that is rooted in values and principles, while also being constantly adaptable and open to diverse perspectives of employees and stakeholders? It’s a question Mauro Ghilardi...
3 Foundational Steps to Help CFOs and Their Companies Get the Upper Hand on Managing ESG Data
Most public companies have made strides to provide meaningful environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting to their stakeholders. However, even these leaders are concerned about complying with new proposed...
New Protiviti SOX Compliance Research: Rising Costs, Labor Shortages and Other Post-Pandemic Challenges Necessitate Change
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs and hours continue to rise, but there are significant opportunities to make measurable, meaningful changes in the form of technology, automation and alternate sourcing strategies...