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How to future-proof your business: a CFO’s-eye view
At times of economic turmoil, chief financial officers (CFOs) are under even more pressure than usual to manage risk and drive resilience. That means managing their organisations’ profit and loss, cutting overheads, and otherwise reducing costs while planning for the future. The way forward for getting your P&L in line is to drive revenue. However,
Five things Chief Risk Officers should know about succeeding in the Cloud
This article looks at five key things that a CRO should know about adopting the Microsoft Cloud to address regulatory requirements such as FRTB.
Windows 10: Securing the future of the finance industry
Upon his capture in 1934, the infamous Willie Sutton was asked by FBI agents why he robbed banks. He simply replied “Because that's where the money is.”
Windows 10: Increasing productivity for financial institutions
More than 400 million devices are running Windows 10 in 192 countries. That’s almost every country on the planet. How many of your employees use Windows 10 at home?
Windows 10: Reducing cost for financial organisations
Initiating digital workplace transformation. If you’re considering a digital workplace transformation strategy, Windows 10 provides the right foundation.
From the nineties to the twenty-tens with ERP
In the run up to the cloud, ERP has been used consistently to manage businesses and automate back-office and customer-centric functions related to technology, services and HR.
From magic moments to magic numbers
Customers are tricky. They may choose a certain product or service because it’s great quality, it’s easy, it’s fast, it’s cheap or it’s luxurious.
Chasing digital transformation? The right business model will put you on track
Everyone seems to be either thinking about it, talking about it or doing it. It may be digital but is it transformation, disruption or a combination of both?
A compass that always points back to your desk isn’t going to make you more productive
Is anyone ever happy with how productive they are? The subject is always good fodder for endless corporate life cartoons featuring gags about distractions, caffeine intake, absurd productivity graphs, return-to-desk compasses and to-do lists, to name a few.
Are you a slow-mo company or can you keep pace with the speed of business?
Urgently-worded business-world banter flies fast and furious across column miles of business and technology journalism, executive summaries and white papers.
Five keys to closing the cloud skills gap for UK business
In our new study of 250 mid-sized to large UK organisations, we found that there’s a wide gap between those who have the right skills and those who don’t.
Finance in the Cloud
Learn how Microsoft’s Enterprise cloud offerings help banks and insurers meet their UK regulatory responsibilities.