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| | Estimated reading time: 6 minutes | Corporate Social Responsibility, Strategy, Sustainability
ESG Mission Possible – if businesses take a lead  

A personal take on how Microsoft is living out its ESG mission   This blog is the second in our…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Business Agility, Corporate Social Responsibility, Strategy
Resolving Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues must start at the top of every business. It’s no longer someone else’s problem.

Ahead of our first annual “IFS Change for Good Sustainability Awards”, we ask Jacqueline de Rojas CBE, IFS Board Member…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Manufacturing, Service, Strategy, Transform Your Business
Deliver service with a mind towards customer and employee safety

Having gone through the first global pandemic most of us can remember will change the way we think about a…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Engineering, Construction & Infrastructure, Strategy
The 4 Pillars of Commercial Finance in Projects
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Project commercial finance connects customers and contractors with operations, accounts and risk management. With construction and infrastructure margins so low,…

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| | Estimated reading time: 8 minutes | Finance, Strategy
2020: The year technology finally acts as a true enabler
2020 Business Strategy Predictions

Finance and human capital management (HCM) are the foundations of global business operations, and they are being affected by regular and unpredictable changes to business models,…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Business Technology, Digital Transformation, Strategy, Transform Your Business
A smart approach to the ECJ time recording edict

In part one of this blog, I explored the recent ECJ ruling re-enforcing the recording of hours worked and breaks…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology, Strategy, Transform Your Business
Is a return to clocking the outcome of the recent ECJ ruling?

The old-fashioned chore of clocking in and out is the last thing you think about in a modern digitized business…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Engineering, Construction & Infrastructure, Strategy, Transform Your Business
3 tips for attaining project financial control in the construction industry
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Project financial control involves more than summing historic values, it needs the controller to map the consequences of potential events…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Oil & Gas, Strategy, Transform Your Business
The 6 S’s of success for Oil & Gas CFO’s navigating Globalization 4.0
6's of Success for oil & gas

As we enter an era of hyper connectivity, trillion-dollar corporations and artificial intelligence, industries and companies must adapt to accommodate…

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| | Estimated reading time: 6 minutes | Service, Strategy, Transform Your Business
Managing The March Towards Zero-Touch Service
Managing the March Towards Zero Touch Service

A few weeks ago, Gartner released its 2019 Magic Quadrant for Field Service Management, and for the fourth consecutive time,…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Strategy, Transform Your Business
The biggest barrier to mining transformation: software fragmentation
Biggest Barrier to Mining Transformation

Systems fragmentation is the single biggest barrier to business transformation and innovation we see in the mining industry. Most companies…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Strategy, Transform Your Business
Strategic resonance is the 3rd of the 3 cornerstones reinforcing business longevity
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Sustainable, balanced and ethical practices are driving new opportunities for corporate strategy to resonate with stakeholder demands as global culture…

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