CFOs must adapt inflation strategies. CFOs should move beyond short-term, reactive moves to counter inflation and identify opportunities to build long-term competitive advantages, according to Gartner, Inc. CFOs should shift from a focus on neutralizing margin pressures to long-term strategies, including aligning costs to points of differentiation, rightsizing the supply…
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But glaring deficiencies in consumer laws remained. The development of new upfront rules that force dominant digital platforms to treat their users fairly is the important next step in reforming Australia’s consumer protection laws, ACCC Chair Rod Sims said today. Delivering the 2022 Ruby Hutchison Memorial Lecture, Sims applauded the…
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The stage is set for customer relationships that are built atop digital technology and data. Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the region continues to adjust with cycles of change and adaptation. Customers today are more connected, consume more digital products and services, and are sharing more data because of…
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Analysts caution that centralization should not be seen as an organizational panacea. Sixty per cent of marketing organizations have centralized some or all their functions, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. Chief marketing officers (CMOs) cited operational excellence issues — such as prioritization, workflows, and collaboration — as the…
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One in three Australian organisations believe it’s fair to cut wages of remote and hybrid workers. Poly today released new research which highlights the key benefits and pain points of remote and hybrid working for businesses. The research showed that despite 72 per cent of organisations seeing an increase in…
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Organizations are collaborating with cybersecurity providers to boost the security of their infrastructure. The prevailing geopolitical tensions are threatening to disrupt and undermine technology industries and spread well beyond national borders. There are concerns about cyber attacks, particularly on critical infrastructure, and as a result, companies need to strengthen their…
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Compliance Training Budgets Will Move Towards Implementing Embedded Controls. By 2025, corporate compliance departments will reduce annual compliance training by 50 per cent, displacing costs in favour of embedded workflow-based controls to guide employees, according to Gartner, Inc. “Many compliance leaders are dissatisfied with the effectiveness of their existing program…
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Ongoing War Has Significantly Accelerated Potential Impacts of Four Key Risk Areas. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has altered the emerging risk landscape, and it requires enterprise risk management (ERM) leaders to reassess previously established organizational risk profiles in at least four key areas, according to Gartner, Inc. “Russia’s invasion of…
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Societal volatility is one of the biggest risks to business performance. Gartner defines social fracture as divisions in society, causing people and institutions to disengage with one another, engage only in a polarized way, or act negatively toward the common good. A Gartner survey of 273 board of directors from…
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How Security Leaders Can Increase Their Executive Impact. To respond to an ever-changing threat landscape and increase impact among executive leadership, security and risk leaders should take a three-step approach to shift from a defensive to an offensive leadership position, according to Gartner, Inc. “This is a time of extraordinarily…
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