A chat with Challenger Champion Jodie Hatch, Chief Technology Officer at Resolute Mining. Resolute Mining is no stranger to innovation. In fact, its site in Mali will be the first, purpose-built, fully automated sublevel cave gold mine in the world. With a global organization that comprises gold mines in Africa and Queensland and headquarters in…
Introducing Challenger Champion Charles Nshimiyimana of the Rwanda Energy Development Corporation Limited. There are few organizations that are more crucial to society than energy utilities. Power generation, transmission, and distribution to the end-user are all activities that need to be carefully choreographed and monitored to ensure the lights stay on. Speaking with Charles Nshimiyimana…
Good news from IFS HQ today in that the domain name ifs.com is now in its rightful (and purple) digital home. You can now get to our website by plugging ifs.com into your browser (soon we’ll move the site over rather than just forwarding) and contact colleagues at IFS through firstname.lastname@ifs.com. Why the change? For…
This is the fifth in our series of conversations with members of the IFS partner community. In my previous blog posts, I’ve focused on companies that operate primarily in the Nordics. This time we are going overseas to learn about one of our North American partners. Astra, an IFS Gold Services Partner, has worked with more…
Buying enterprise software can be difficult. You are at a disadvantage because the software vendor knows a lot more about the product you are considering than you do. You spend months trying to eliminate as much of that knowledge gap as you can, doing due diligence, talking to reference customers, sitting through scripted demos. But…
Speaking with Lovisa Tholerus Sondén, ERP and Finance Systems Manager at long-standing IFS customer Ingram Micro Mobility, for just a short while, I was immediately struck by the passion she has for her work. Even though passion isn’t one of the three Ps (see below), I believe it is the driving force behind everything Lovisa…
‘Aerospace & Defense 4.0’ is revamping the manufacturing landscape in A&D. Its emergence has signaled the arrival of cost-saving products and services and has enhanced the capability of current manufacturing processes and even business models. Such technologies hold much promise for A&D manufacturers going into 2020 and beyond—but the adoption of techniques such as 3D…
This is the fourth in our series of conversations with members of the IFS partner community. We want to onboard partners as quickly as possible. Possibly one of the fastest and most proactive onboarding I’ve been a part of is the subject for this interview. Exsitec are experts on IT-systems for simplified administration and decision…
Project financial control is often complex, multi-dimensional and prone to the unexpected, then why do project controllers rely so heavily on two-dimensional spreadsheets for their multi-dimensional requirements, and what happens when we need to change this? Project financial control I have spent many years managing the financial and commercial aspects of long term multi-billion dollar…
Getting to know IFS Challenger Champion Zainab Abbas, Director of Investments & Projects, Akbar Brothers. More than 75 million cups of Akbar tea are enjoyed worldwide every day. But how do you orchestrate all the various processes necessary for getting the tea from Sri Lanka’s mountain slopes and into your breakfast cup? I had the…
