Senior Director and Technology Research Advisor Rick Pastore and Principal and Technology Transformation Practice Leader Mike Spires discuss key findings from our 2022 Digital World Class Technology research. Show Notes: Welcome to The Hackett Group’s Business Excelleration Podcast, where week after week we hear from experts on how to avoid obstacles, manage detours and celebrate milestones on the journey to world-class performance. Today’s episode is hosted by Rick Pastore, senior...

North American HR Executive Advisory Practice Leader Franco Girimonte and Senior Research Director Anthony DiRomualdo discuss key findings from The Hackett Group’s latest Digital World Class HR research. Show Notes: Welcome to The Hackett Group's Business Excelleration Podcast, where week after week we hear from experts on how to avoid obstacles, manage detours and celebrate milestones on the journey to world-class performance. Today's episode is hosted by Franco Girimonte, North American...

The Hackett Group Solution Director Mark Eklund talks with Associate Principal and Consolidation Vertical Lead Brian Willson about the benefits of transitioning from Hyperion Financial Management to Oracle EPM FCC. Show Notes: Welcome to The Hackett Group’s Business Excelleration Podcast, where - week after week - we hear from experts on how to avoid obstacles, manage detours, and celebrate milestones on the journey to world-class performance. Today's episode is hosted by Mark Eklund,...

The Hackett Group Senior Director, GBS Advisory Penny Weller talks with Principal and Global GBS Advisory Practice Leader Martijn Geerling about the impact of inflation on global business services and shared services operations. Show Notes: Welcome to The Hackett Group’s Business Excelleration Podcast, where - week after week - we hear from experts on how to avoid obstacles, manage detours, and celebrate milestones on the journey to world-class performance. Today's episode is hosted by...

Senior Director Anthony DiRomualdo talks with Associate Principal Arbin Smith, Associate Principal Dorothee El-Khoury about results from our recent research examining best practices around corporate efforts to increase diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Show Notes: Join us for this episode of The Hackett Group’s Business Excelleration Podcast, where we get to hear from experts on the top tips for avoiding obstacles, managing detours and celebrating milestones on the journey to...

The Hackett Group Senior Director and Global IT Advisory Practice Leader Chris Key talks with Tech Transformation Practice Principal Michael Fuller, Senior Director Jay Ruffin, and Tech Practice Principal Scott Holland about key findings from The Hackett Group’s recent Cloud Migration Study, the largest-ever study of its type. Show Notes Welcome to The Hackett Group’s Business Excelleration Podcast, where — week after week —  we hear from experts on how to avoid obstacles, manage detours,...

The Hackett Group Managing Director, Advisory, Europe Martijn Geerling talks with Sourcing Transformation Practice Leader, Europe Jill Stabler and GBS Transformation Practice Leader, Europe Hermann Waschefort about factors companies should consider when deciding whether to outsource or internally develop shared services or global business services operations. Show Notes:  Welcome to the Hackett Group’s Business Excelleration Podcast, where - week after week - we hear from experts on how to...

Senior Research Director Shawn Fitzgerald talks with Global GBS and Finance Advisory Practice Leader Jim O’Connor and Finance, EPM, and BI Advisory Practice Leader Gilles Bonelli about the many areas where corporate finance leaders can help their companies address inflationary pressures. Show Notes:  Welcome to the Hackett Group’s Business Excelleration Podcast, where - week after week - we hear from experts on how to avoid obstacles, manage detours, and celebrate milestones on the journey...

The Hackett Group Senior Procurement Advisor Nicolas Walden talked with Associate Principal Jonathan Fehring about the impact of inflation on procurement, and how procurement leaders can address it. Show Notes:  Welcome to the Hackett Group’s Business Excelleration Podcast, where – week after week – we hear from experts on how to avoid obstacles, manage detours, and celebrate milestones on the journey to world-class performance. Today’s episode is hosted by Nic Walden, Senior Advisor at the...

The Hackett Group Director Jay Ruffin Senior talks with Oracle Cloud CTO Yonas Yohannes and Oracle Vice President, Cloud Engineering Venu Mantha about how banks are accelerating their movement towards cloud-based digital solutions as a key element of their overall digital transformation efforts. Part 2. Show Notes Welcome to the Hackett Group’s Business Excelleration Podcast, where - week after week - we hear from experts on how to avoid obstacles, manage detours, and celebrate milestones...

 The Hackett Group Director Jay Ruffin Senior talks with Oracle Cloud CTO Yonas Yohannes and Hackett Consultant Matt Williams about how the pandemic has accelerated the movement of banks towards cloud-based digital solutions as a key element of their overall digital transformation efforts. Show Notes: Welcome to the Hackett Group’s Business Excelleration Podcast, where - week after week - we hear from experts on how to avoid obstacles, manage detours, and celebrate milestones on the...

The Hackett Group Senior Director Philip King talks with Sanjay Patel, SVP and Global Head of Takeda Business Solutions about how Takeda has embarked on a digital transformation program designed to reimagine its global business services function to make it truly cross-functional, improving efficiency and strategic alignment. Takeda was named a finalist in The Hackett Group’s 2021 Digital Awards for its CFOinUrPocket AI-driven global finance dashboard. Show Notes: When Sanjay joined Takeda...

The Hackett Group Principal David Ketchin talks with Principal Paul Morrison and Senior Director Hermann Waschefort about critical success factors for how companies can drive real benefits and improved performance through their digital transformation efforts. Show Notes: Welcome to the Hackett Group’s Business Excelleration Podcast, where – week after week – we hear from experts on how to avoid obstacles, manage detours, and celebrate milestones on the journey to world-class performance....

The Hackett Group Senior Research Director Rick Pastore talks with American Kidney Fund CIO Gregory Smith about his new book “The New Normal in IT: How the Global Pandemic Changed IT Forever”. Show Notes:  To begin, Rick asks Gregory to share his motivation behind writing his most recent book. Initially, he had written about the topic of the pandemic’s impact on companies. His wife recommended he expand on the idea of the article and write a book. As an academic and intellectual, Gregory...

The Hackett Group Principal Robert Derocher talks with Associate Principal Joshua Nelson and Associate Principal Erin Blair discussed key findings from The Hackett Group’s 2022 Supply Chain Key Issues research, which details the priorities and challenges for supply chain organizations. Show Notes: To begin, Erin identifies the biggest issues we saw in 2022. Given the supply chain disruption because of the pandemic, she finds it unsurprising that the top three issues related to managing...

The Hackett Group European Practice Leader David Ketchin talks with Global Advisory Practice Leader Tom Willman about key findings from our 2022 Finance Key Issues Research, which outlines changing trends, priorities, and challenges facing the finance function. Show Notes: Welcome to the Hackett Group’s Business Excelleration Podcast, where - week after week - we hear from experts on how to avoid obstacles, manage detours, and celebrate milestones on the journey to world-class performance....

The Hackett Group Senior Manager Vicky Kavan talks with Principal Chris Sawchuk and Principal Timothy Yoo about key findings from our 2022 Procurement Key Issues Research, which outlines changing trends, priorities, and challenges facing the procurement function. Show Notes: The Hackett Group runs a key issues study annually to identify the impact of changing trends and guide research for the following year. One of the strongest themes to come from this year's study was the importance of...

Senior Director Chris Key talks with Principal Michael Spires about key findings from The Hackett Group’s 2022 Technology Key Issues research, which identifies priorities and potential challenges for technology organizations. Show Notes: Welcome to the Hackett Group’s Business Excelleration Podcast, where - week after week - we hear from experts on how to avoid obstacles, manage detours, and celebrate milestones on the journey to world-class performance. This episode of the podcast is...

The Hackett Group Senior Research Director Anthony DiRomualdo talked with European HR Practice Leader Dorothee El-Khoury about key findings from The Hackett Group’s 2022 Human Resources Key Issues Research. The research covers top priorities and challenge areas for HR in 2022, including the ongoing pandemic, the great resignation, the challenge of retaining and attracting workers, the shift to remote/hybrid work, creating a more diverse and inclusive workforce, and more. Show Notes: Welcome...

The Hackett Group Vice President of Research Erik Dorr talks with Global GBS Practice Leader Martijn Geerling and Senior Director Hermann Waschefort about key findings from The Hackett Group’s 2022 Global Business Services Key Issues Research. The research tracks GBS goals, critical development areas, and digital transformation priorities, and offers GBS executives guidance on where to focus their efforts. Show Notes: Welcome to the Hackett Group’s Business Excelleration Podcast, where –...

The Hackett Group European Procurement Advisory Practice Leader Mélani Flores talks with Vodafone Global Head of SCM Development, Operations & Digital Reinhard Plaza-Bartsch about their Vodafone Blockchain Price Manager, which was the winner in the Source-to-Purchase category in The Hackett Group’s 2021 Digital Awards. Show Notes: Welcome to the Hackett Group’s Business Excelleration Podcast, where - week after week - we hear from experts on how to avoid obstacles, manage detours, and...

The Hackett Group Principal David Ketchin talks with Senior Director Hiten Parmar and Principal Georg Bach about their perspective on sustainable procurement in Europe, how the pandemic has helped move the topic to the top of the procurement agenda, and critical success factors for sustainable procurement initiatives. Show Notes: This episode of the podcast is hosted by David Ketchin, Managing Director of Europe for the Hackett Group.  His guests for the episode are Principal Georg Bach and...

The Hackett Group  Director Jay Ruffin talks with Principal Yonas Yohannes on the growth of cloud computing and what companies should think about as they make the decision to move to the cloud. Show Notes: Welcome to the Hackett Group’s Business Excelleration Podcast, where - week after week - we hear from experts on how to avoid obstacles, manage detours, and celebrate milestones on the journey to world-class performance. This episode of the podcast is hosted by Hackett Group Senior...

The Hackett Group Senior Research Director Tony DiRomualdo talks with Chief HR Officer Harry Osle about “The Great Resignation,” what is driving it and what companies can do to address issues relating to hiring and retention in today’s changing market.  Show Notes: Welcome to the Hackett Group’s Business Excelleration Podcast, where - week after week - we hear from experts on how to avoid obstacles, manage detours, and celebrate milestones on the journey to world-class performance. This...