Podcast appearances and mentions of bonnie d. graham

Welcome to Technology Revolution Crystal Ball #3 bright Peering at AI 2025 and beyond in an optimistic light Bonnie D. hosts in her Scarlett mic's live-streaming hue With a cadre of Futurists unpacking predictions for you With AI as their compass, opportunities as their sail Will their foresights triumph or perhaps not prevail? Raise your cup or flute with Java, Jack, Dom or Earl On Bonnie D.'s Crystal Ball Special, the future will unfurl Continuing in 2025 on January 8 and 15 Wishing you Happy Everything and New Year's in between!

Welcome to Technology Revolution Crystal Ball #2 bright Peering at AI 2025 and beyond in an optimistic light Bonnie D. hosts in her Scarlett mic's live-streaming hue With a cadre of Futurists unpacking predictions for you With AI as their compass, opportunities as their sail Will their foresights triumph or perhaps not prevail? Raise your cup or flute with Java, Jack, Dom or Earl On Bonnie D.'s Crystal Ball Special, the future will unfurl Continuing December 18, January 8 and 15 We wish you happy holidays and new year's in between

Welcome, global audience, to the Technology Revolution: The Future of Now show “The Future of The Automotive Circular Economy + AI” we want to know Bonnie D. on her Scarlett Mic, your predictions host and guide Engages savvy Futurists on her into-the-future round table ride Simon Meitz, Roja Khanpour, Adam Thompson, Lars Eiermann and Josef Wagner, too Watch or listen, we're envisioning Automotive CE + AI especially for you!

On the Read My Lips stage where passion beams true akaRadioRed on her Scarlett mic in the live-streaming hue Welcomes you to The Hospitality of Creativity today Featuring savvy Creatives with a lot to say Annie McCune, Dr Emilio Justo M.D., and Roger Igo, too Watch or listen as we share inspiration with you!

Welcome to Technology Revolution: The Future of Now show The Future of HR + AI we want to know, At her round table Bonnie D.'s Scarlett mic at her side s joined by savvy Futurists for this Get-A-Job-and-AI ride Sherry Meyer, Bob Ficken, Dr. Gabby Burlacu, too Dr. Steve Hunt and Chiara Bersano share predictions for you Stick around, listen-up and see what's in store HR + AI's opportunities are what we'll explore

On the Read My Lips stage where passion beams true akaRadioRed on her Scarlett mic in the live-streaming hue Welcomes you to The Sweet Bark of Creativity today Featuring savvy Creatives with a lot to say Mark Bello & Marconi, Pilley Bianchi, and Alexis Devine, too Watch or listen as we share inspiration with you!

Welcome, globals, to the Technology Revolution show With Bonnie D. on her Scarlett mic in the live-streaming glow Buckle-up as four Futurists join her on this ride At her predictions round table for innovation's stride Richard Howells, Praful Karanth, Eric Myers and Brad Pawlowski, too We're predicting Supply Chain + AI 2024 Holiday Shopping for you!

Welcome, global audience, to the Technology Revolution show With host Bonnie D. and Scarlett mic in the live-streaming glow  Buckle up as four Futurists' predictions take flight Sharing visions for Drones + AI working day and night Chuck Byers, Martin Stenzig, Steven Philpott Sr., Pharns Genece too Watch or listen, we're predicting the future especially for you!

Welcome, global audience, to Technology Revolution: The Future of Now show The Future of Sci-Fi Characters and Plots + AI is what we want to know Bonnie D. on her Scarlett Mic, your predictions host and guide Engages savvy Futurist-Authors on her into-the-future ride Jason Palmatier, John W. Maly, J.R. Johnson and Brad C. Anderson, too Watch or listen as we envision Sci-Fi + AI for you!

Welcome to Technology Revolution: The Future of Now Radio “The Future of The Circular Economy + AI” is what we want to know Bonnie D. on her Scarlett Mic, your predictions host and guide Engages savvy Futurists on her into-the-future ride In the Circular Economy, where waste has no reign We recycle, we repurpose, and we renew again Simon Meitz , Dr. Matthias Ballweg, Katharina Peier Dr. Martin Ruettgers and Adam Thompson – they're all here Listen or watch, and be inspired as we explore The Circular Economy + AI's opportunities galore

Welcome, global audience, to Technology Revolution: The Future of Now Radio “The Future of Virtual Assistants + AI” is what we want to know Bonnie D. on her Scarlett Mic, your predictions host and guide Engages savvy Futurists on her into-the-future round table ride Tammy Schaefer, Louie Dungca, Jennifer Wilkins, and Shelley-Ann Cowan, too Watch or listen, we're curating VA's + AI especially for you!

Welcome to Technology Revolution: The Future of Now Radio “The Future of Surprising AI Uses In Business + Life” we want to show At her lively predictions round table, Bonnie D. your host and guide Speaks with savvy Futurists for today's into-the-future ride  * Martin Stenzig, business technology expert, former Rizing Chief Technology Officer  * Bob Ficken, university faculty, business and leadership coach  * Michael Goldrich, founder and chief advisor of Vivander Advisors  * Dan Geller, AI & marketing advisor for SMB leaders and owners Watch or listen, find us your way Technology Revolution: The Future of Now, we've got a lot to say.

Welcome to Technology Revolution: The Future of Now Radio "The Future of HR + AI" is what we want to know At her predictions round table, Bonnie D. with Scarlett mic at her side Is joined by savvy Futurists for this Get-A-Job+AI ride Sherryanne Meyer, Bob Ficken, Chiara Bersano, too Dr. Gabby Burlacu and Dr. Steve Hunt unpack predictions for you Watch and listen, stick around eagerly As Bonnie D. explores HR on AI's boundless sea!

Welcome to Technology Revolution: The Future of Now Radio "The Future of Health Care and AI for Patients" is what we want to know! At her predictions round table, Bonnie D. with Scarlett mic at her side Welcomes life sciences Futurists for Part 2 of her healthcare-AI ride Joe Miles, Sven Krause, Sigurlin Atladottir, too John Wilson and Aparna Seksaria also have predictions for you Stick around, watch, listen and see As Bonnie D. explores Healthcare and AI's boundless sea!

Welcome to Technology Revolution: The Future of Now rendezvous Where host Bonnie D. on her Scarlett mic explores tech with curiosity anew In the realm of Urbanization, AI's impact will transcend As we shift gears into the future, reality may bend Joining her on this exciting AI ride Eric Simone, Brenna Berman, Jeff DeCoux and Don DeLoach in Futurist stride Buckle up, dear audience, watch and listen to our sound As AI Goes Urban at Bonnie D.'s table round

Welcome to Technology Revolution: The Future of Now rendezvous With host Bonnie D. on her Scarlett mic, exploring tech with curiosity anew In the realm of Social Media, AI's impact will transcend As we shift gears into the future, reality is sure to bend Joining her on this exciting AI ride Kirsten Boileau, Sylvie Lachkar, Joao Branquinho and Shelley-Ann Cowan in Futurist stride Buckle up, dear audience, watch and listen to our sound As AI engages us with Social at Bonnie D.'s table round

Crossover Episode … Read My Lips Cool Conversations with Poets on Technology Revolution On the Read My Lips stage, as passion glows bright akaRadioRed's Scarlett mic in the live-streaming light Welcomes you to The Poetry of Creativity today Featuring four Creatives with so much to say Amy Hadley, Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming, Dennis Gray and Pearl Ketover Prilik, too  Watch or listen as we verse inspiration for you!

Welcome to Technology Revolution: The Future of Now Radio Today “The Future of Automotive and AI” is what we want to know A savvy predictions round table, host Bonnie D. and Scarlett mic at her side Welcoming automotive Futurists for our into-the-future ride… Tom Madonna – VP Industry Advisory at SAP Shanton Wilcox – SVP at NTT Data Dan Ricci – Managing Director at Deloitte Consulting Anurag Varshney – Senior Managing Partner at McKinsol Consulting Inc. … Together we delve into realms profound Baby You Can Drive My Car with AI'll astound Fasten your seatbelt as Bonnie D.'s Futurists steer Us into the future, vrrroom vrrroom let's put it in gear!

Welcome to Technology Revolution: The Future of Now Radio Today it's “The Future of Health Care and AI” that we want to know A savvy predictions round table, with Bonnie D. and Scarlett mic at her side Welcoming life sciences Futurists for our into-the-future ride ** Joe Miles – Healthcare and Life Sciences Executive ** Aparna Seksaria – Life Sciences Solutions Director at SAP ** Sven Krause – President for North America at Partex ** Sigurlin Atladottir – Digital Healthcare Leader at Roche Pharmaceuticals ** John Wilson – Director of Marketing Strategy at Elevance Health In this realm where futures gleam Tech and health shape one bright dream Stick around, listen and see As Bonnie D. explores AI's boundless sea

Upon the Read My Lips stage with passion bright akaRadioRed's Scarlett mic in the live-streaming light Welcomes you for The Languages of Creativity today With four Creative guests with a lot to say Cindy Wageman, Joel Dubin, Monique Gagné, and Joe Hippensteel, too Watch or listen, we're curating inspiration for you.

Welcome, global audience, to Technology Revolution: The Future of Now Radio, “The Future of Surprising AI Uses In Real Life: Need Help With That?” we want to know A savvy predictions conversation, with Bonnie D. your host and guide, welcoming five savvy Futurists for today's into-the-future ride *** Dan Geller, AI & Marketing Advisor for SMB leaders and owners *** David Mason, founder of Best Slope Designs LLC, AllTheCRM, A.I. Mastery Accelerator *** Bob Ficken, university faculty, Certified FocalPoint Business and Leadership Coach *** Martin Stenzig, Chief Technology Officer for Rizing, a Wipro company *** Michael Goldrich, founder and chief advisor of Vivander Advisors Watch or listen, find us your way, Technology Revolution: The Future of Now, we've got a lot to say

Welcome, dear audience, to Technology Revolution: The Future of Now Radio, as we envision Supply Chain and AI In this era of evolution, AI takes the lead, transforming supply chains, fulfilling the need, with data-driven insights and automation's might, the future of supply chain shines more bright A savvy predictions conversation, with Bonnie D. your host and guide, welcoming four industry Futurists for today's futur-peering ride *** Hans Thalbauer, Global Supply Chain Executive at UiPath *** Paula Natoli, Head of Global Supply Chain Strategic Industries at Google Cloud *** Richard Howells, Vice President, Solution Management for ERP, Finance and Digital Supply Chain at SAP *** Brad Pawlowski, North America Lead, Supply Chain & Operations at Accenture Watch or listen, find us your way, Technology Revolution: The Future of Now, we've got a lot to say

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Automotive Insiders is presented by OESA, the Original Equipment Suppliers Association. Industry experts discuss Automotive hot topics to keep the Automotive Supplier Community up to date on the fast-changing mobility landscape. From post-pandemic manufacturing restart planning and worker safety measures, to legal issues and supply chain disruptions, Automotive Insiders is your source of timely and relevant content. Host Bonnie D. Graham welcomes Tom Madonna, Industry Executive Advisor for Automotive at SAP, and Bill Veltri, MBA, an IBM Associate Partner and SAP Leader for the Automotive, Aerospace & Defense industries with particular focus on Automotive OEMs, Distributors, Suppliers, and Dealers. Tom Madonna and Bill Veltri discuss how Automotive is at a once-in-100-years inflection point, with the industry moving into new methods of transacting and new business models that will enable improved customer engagement and provide access to the power of data. “Digital Vehicle Hub/Vehicle Management System is a new container for supporting those models.” Bill observes, “When thinking about the Automotive industry, the Distributors and Dealers are often overlooked, as most people focus on the manufacturing and supply chain processes. Moving vehicles from the manufacturing locations to the distributors, accessorizing those vehicles, and moving them to the right dealers is an important part of the vehicle supply chain.” OEMs, Dealerships, and Retailers need new ways of communication and passing information back-and-forth to support customers. Tom poses this top-of-mind question, “How much data is needed or wanted, and who owns that data?” Listen on-demand to hear the full conversation with Tom Madonna and Bill Veltri. More info: https://OESA.org

Automotive Insiders is presented by OESA, the Original Equipment Suppliers Association. Industry experts discuss Automotive hot topics to keep the Automotive Supplier Community up to date on the fast-changing mobility landscape. From post-pandemic manufacturing restart planning and worker safety measures, to legal issues and supply chain disruptions, Automotive Insiders is your source of timely and relevant content. Host Bonnie D. Graham welcomes Tom Madonna, Industry Executive Advisor for Automotive at SAP, and Bill Veltri, MBA, an IBM Associate Partner and SAP Leader for the Automotive, Aerospace & Defense industries with particular focus on Automotive OEMs, Distributors, Suppliers, and Dealers. Tom Madonna and Bill Veltri discuss how Automotive is at a once-in-100-years inflection point, with the industry moving into new methods of transacting and new business models that will enable improved customer engagement and provide access to the power of data. “Digital Vehicle Hub/Vehicle Management System is a new container for supporting those models.” Bill observes, “When thinking about the Automotive industry, the Distributors and Dealers are often overlooked, as most people focus on the manufacturing and supply chain processes. Moving vehicles from the manufacturing locations to the distributors, accessorizing those vehicles, and moving them to the right dealers is an important part of the vehicle supply chain.” OEMs, Dealerships, and Retailers need new ways of communication and passing information back-and-forth to support customers. Tom poses this top-of-mind question, “How much data is needed or wanted, and who owns that data?” Listen on-demand to hear the full conversation with Tom Madonna and Bill Veltri. More info: https://OESA.org

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Ah, taxes! A bit of “humor” on a definitely serious topic for every enterprise: * Benjamin Franklin: “In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” * Bonnie Raitt: “Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet – nobody taxes the sun yet.” * Arthur C. Clarke: “The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.” Ok, time to get serious. The EY 2020 Tax and Finance Operate survey reported that 51% of all respondents expected an increase to their organization's tax risk profile from complying with emerging digital tax filing requirements, while a whopping 84% expected it to increase the workload of the tax and finance function. EY's 2022 Tax and Finance Operations Survey found 84% of respondents are actively transforming to tackle challenges. Talent, legislative and regulatory changes, and future-proofing technology are key concerns for Tax and Finance functions. And the COVID-19 pandemic worsened some challenges, accelerating the need to transform. Reality check: With new regulatory announcements coming every month, your business needs to adapt your processes to remain sustainable and profitable. How do intelligent businesses like yours take your tax transformation as a strategic turning point for operational efficiency and seamless compliance? Stop deprioritizing – or worse, ignoring – your company's tax function in digital business transformation initiatives. We'll ask Erika Buson, Sveinung Baumann-Larsen and Vicky Bradford for their insights on The Digital Enterprise: Turning Taxes Into Opportunity!

The Buzz 1: “As specialized tools and technology have emerged, the role of CFO has evolved. CFOs of companies large and small need to embrace flexibility, develop global strategies, and shift their focus to look forward rather than back.” (www.teampay.co/insights/cfo-quotes/) The Buzz 2: “When you are a successful company, you have to fight really hard to make sure you avoid complacency, arrogance, bureaucracy.” (Marianne Lake, CFO of JPMorgan Chase) The Buzz 3: “The CFO needs to be supported by a strategic FP&A team that is excellent at all levels… a team that is prepared for where the company is going—not where it's been.” (Jim Johnson, Former CFO of Adaptive Insights) Amid globally turbulent times, today's Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) function is striving to spend less of its time “Planning” and more time delivering value-added “Analysis” to its business constituents. How? Finance and its IT support teams need to focus on the future, utilizing the available modern tools – Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Analytics and Collaboration. Similar to the automotive industry working to deliver safe, self-driving vehicles, FP&A needs to “feel the need, the need for speed” [quoting Lt. Pete ‘Maverick' Mitchell in the Top Gun films] to drive automated or, even better, autonomous planning. What steps can your FP&A team take to harness technology today in order to optimize their time delivering the best possible analysis to your organization tomorrow? We'll ask Finance professionals Paul Davis at Analysis Prime, Colin Chu at SAP and Nilly Essaides at NeuGroup for their take on Driving The Emphasis on Analysis for Finance: Focus on Automation.

The Buzz 1: Most of the countries negotiating a global overhaul of cross-border taxation of multinationals have backed plans for new rules on where companies are taxed and a tax rate of at least 15%… A global minimum corporate income tax of at least 15% could yield around $150 billion in additional global tax revenues annually. 130 countries, representing more than 90% of global GDP, had backed the agreement at the talks. New rules on where the biggest multinationals are taxed would shift taxing rights on more than $100 billion of profits to countries where the profits are earned. [reuters.com – 2021-07-01] The Buzz 2: As of 4 November 2021, over 135 countries and jurisdictions joined a new two-pillar plan to reform international taxation rules and ensure that multinational enterprises pay a fair share of tax wherever they operate. [oecd.org] Look up! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's global minimum tax. Will your company be hit and if yes, how hard? Global minimum tax rules, aka “Pillar Two Model Rules”, are set to go into effect in 2024. Developed as part of the OECD/G20 BEPS 2.0 project, these rules will dramatically change the international tax landscape and create significant new tax reporting and compliance requirements for affected organizations, in every industry. With the clock ticking, your Finance organization needs to understand the potential impacts of these rules and develop a comprehensive technology-centered plan. Priorities to cover: adapting internal processes and systems to manage the new computations and data requirements, calculating your global minimum tax liabilities and satisfying reporting obligations. Saddle up! We'll ask Sveinung Baumann-Larsen at EY, Erika Buson at SAP and Matthias Klein at BASF for their take on The Arrival of Minimum Taxes: A New World Order.

The Buzz 1: Most of the countries negotiating a global overhaul of cross-border taxation of multinationals have backed plans for new rules on where companies are taxed and a tax rate of at least 15%… A global minimum corporate income tax of at least 15% could yield around $150 billion in additional global tax revenues annually. 130 countries, representing more than 90% of global GDP, had backed the agreement at the talks. New rules on where the biggest multinationals are taxed would shift taxing rights on more than $100 billion of profits to countries where the profits are earned. [reuters.com – 2021-07-01] The Buzz 2: As of 4 November 2021, over 135 countries and jurisdictions joined a new two-pillar plan to reform international taxation rules and ensure that multinational enterprises pay a fair share of tax wherever they operate. [oecd.org] Look up! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's global minimum tax. Will your company be hit and if yes, how hard? Global minimum tax rules, aka “Pillar Two Model Rules”, are set to go into effect in 2024. Developed as part of the OECD/G20 BEPS 2.0 project, these rules will dramatically change the international tax landscape and create significant new tax reporting and compliance requirements for affected organizations, in every industry. With the clock ticking, your Finance organization needs to understand the potential impacts of these rules and develop a comprehensive technology-centered plan. Priorities to cover: adapting internal processes and systems to manage the new computations and data requirements, calculating your global minimum tax liabilities and satisfying reporting obligations. Saddle up! We'll ask Sveinung Baumann-Larsen at EY, Erika Buson at SAP and Matthias Klein at BASF for their take on The Arrival of Minimum Taxes: A New World Order.

The Buzz 1: Most of the countries negotiating a global overhaul of cross-border taxation of multinationals have backed plans for new rules on where companies are taxed and a tax rate of at least 15%… A global minimum corporate income tax of at least 15% could yield around $150 billion in additional global tax revenues annually. 130 countries, representing more than 90% of global GDP, had backed the agreement at the talks. New rules on where the biggest multinationals are taxed would shift taxing rights on more than $100 billion of profits to countries where the profits are earned. [reuters.com – 2021-07-01] The Buzz 2: As of 4 November 2021, over 135 countries and jurisdictions joined a new two-pillar plan to reform international taxation rules and ensure that multinational enterprises pay a fair share of tax wherever they operate. [oecd.org] Look up! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's global minimum tax. Will your company be hit and if yes, how hard? Global minimum tax rules, aka “Pillar Two Model Rules”, are set to go into effect in 2024. Developed as part of the OECD/G20 BEPS 2.0 project, these rules will dramatically change the international tax landscape and create significant new tax reporting and compliance requirements for affected organizations, in every industry. With the clock ticking, your Finance organization needs to understand the potential impacts of these rules and develop a comprehensive technology-centered plan. Priorities to cover: adapting internal processes and systems to manage the new computations and data requirements, calculating your global minimum tax liabilities and satisfying reporting obligations. Saddle up! We'll ask Sveinung Baumann-Larsen at EY, Erika Buson at SAP and Matthias Klein at BASF for their take on The Arrival of Minimum Taxes: A New World Order.

The Buzz 1: “Purposeful storytelling isn't show business, it's good business.” [Peter Guber, CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, co-owner of NBA's Golden State Warriors and MLB's LA Dodgers] The Buzz 2: “Good stories surprise us. They make us think and feel. They stick in our minds and help us remember ideas and concepts in a way that a PowerPoint crammed with bar graphs never can.” [Joe Lazauskas and Shane Snow, co-authors, The Storytelling Edge: How to Transform Your Business, Stop Screaming into the Void, and Make People Love You] The Buzz 3: “Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world.” [Robert McKee, Story Mentor] These wise words about storytelling impact today's Finance planning and analysis function, as the CFO's team sees the value of weaving a narrative around actual events, explaining variances, and providing guidance. As the role of Finance evolves to a strategic business partner, the team needs to equip itself with the right tools to be a great storyteller. Beyond old-school spreadsheets, they need modern analytics, trusted data and actionable dashboards so they can recommend and guide their organizations to make the best business decisions. We'll ask Brian Kalish, Pras Chatterjee and Greg Wright for their take on Enhanced Planning and Analysis: The Super-Power of Storytelling and Analytics.

The soccer great Pelé [the all-time leading goal scorer for Brazil with 77 goals in 92 games] famously and wisely observed, “No individual can win a game by himself.” Pelé's words stand true beyond the soccer pitch. In the business world, they resonate even louder for the Finance function. To bring the entire organization together in Planning and Analysis as well as strategy, Finance needs to adopt a “business partnership” mantra. While it's generally accepted that all lines of business in an organization will “plan”, bringing these plans together collaboratively requires financial and operational skills, technical savvy and most importantly, leadership. As a leader and a business partner, Finance can become instrumental in enhancing the Planning and Analysis function to become an xP&A group – Extended Planning and Analysis – for organizational success, especially in our financially dynamic and turbulent times. We'll ask Anders Larsen Liu-Lindberg at The Business Partnering Institute, Pras Chatterjee at SAP, and Jeff Hattendorf at Macrospect for their take on Pele's words of wisdom as we explore The Power of Business Partnering: Enhancing Planning and Analysis.

The Buzz 1: “Sustainability is no longer a nice-to-have extra. It's a critical piece of the puzzle for companies looking to stay ahead of the competition and protect their bottom lines.[smart.arqlite.com] The Buzz 2: “For companies focused on ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) efforts, metrics matter…Each industry and organization will have different metrics that are material to their business.” [gobyinc.com] The Buzz 3: “Some companies report only their greenhouse gas emissions…others publish glossy reports about their CSR (corporate social responsibility) initiatives or use their ESG ratings as a badge of honor.” [hbr.org] Yes, sustainability strategy and reporting are hot topics and management priorities for organizations' internal and external stakeholders. Why? They can tangibly impact the ability to access finance, attract talent and grow market share. The big picture: Worldwide compliance requirements are driving sustainability initiatives, but the metrics to manage and report against can vary by sector, by country, by strategy. Organizations need to not only make future commitments about sustainability metrics, but also to demonstrate their plan to maintain and improve overall corporate performance. Forward-thinking organizations see sustainability reporting as an opportunity to spearhead new opportunities, efficiencies and growth, which require performance management capability and culture. Where to start? We'll ask Michel Haesendonckx at SAP and Esteban Rastrollo at EY for their insights on Sustainability Performance Management: Business Imperative vs Wishful Thinking?

Ah, taxes! A bit of “humor” on a definitely serious topic for every enterprise: * Benjamin Franklin: “In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” * Bonnie Raitt: “Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet – nobody taxes the sun yet.” * Arthur C. Clarke: “The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.” Ok, time to get serious. The EY 2020 Tax and Finance Operate survey reported that 51% of all respondents expected an increase to their organization's tax risk profile from complying with emerging digital tax filing requirements, while a whopping 84% expected it to increase the workload of the tax and finance function. EY's 2022 Tax and Finance Operations Survey found 84% of respondents are actively transforming to tackle challenges. Talent, legislative and regulatory changes, and future-proofing technology are key concerns for Tax and Finance functions. And the COVID-19 pandemic worsened some challenges, accelerating the need to transform. Reality check: With new regulatory announcements coming every month, your business needs to adapt your processes to remain sustainable and profitable. How do intelligent businesses like yours take your tax transformation as a strategic turning point for operational efficiency and seamless compliance? Stop deprioritizing – or worse, ignoring – your company's tax function in digital business transformation initiatives. We'll ask Erika Buson, Sveinung Baumann-Larsen and Vicky Bradford for their insights on The Digital Enterprise: Turning Taxes Into Opportunity!

Ah, taxes! A bit of “humor” on a definitely serious topic for every enterprise: * Benjamin Franklin: “In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” * Bonnie Raitt: “Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet – nobody taxes the sun yet.” * Arthur C. Clarke: “The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.” Ok, time to get serious. The EY 2020 Tax and Finance Operate survey reported that 51% of all respondents expected an increase to their organization's tax risk profile from complying with emerging digital tax filing requirements, while a whopping 84% expected it to increase the workload of the tax and finance function. EY's 2022 Tax and Finance Operations Survey found 84% of respondents are actively transforming to tackle challenges. Talent, legislative and regulatory changes, and future-proofing technology are key concerns for Tax and Finance functions. And the COVID-19 pandemic worsened some challenges, accelerating the need to transform. Reality check: With new regulatory announcements coming every month, your business needs to adapt your processes to remain sustainable and profitable. How do intelligent businesses like yours take your tax transformation as a strategic turning point for operational efficiency and seamless compliance? Stop deprioritizing – or worse, ignoring – your company's tax function in digital business transformation initiatives. We'll ask Erika Buson, Sveinung Baumann-Larsen and Vicky Bradford for their insights on The Digital Enterprise: Turning Taxes Into Opportunity!

The Buzz 1: “As specialized tools and technology have emerged, the role of CFO has evolved. CFOs of companies large and small need to embrace flexibility, develop global strategies, and shift their focus to look forward rather than back.” (www.teampay.co/insights/cfo-quotes/) The Buzz 2: “When you are a successful company, you have to fight really hard to make sure you avoid complacency, arrogance, bureaucracy.” (Marianne Lake, CFO of JPMorgan Chase) The Buzz 3: “The CFO needs to be supported by a strategic FP&A team that is excellent at all levels… a team that is prepared for where the company is going—not where it's been.” (Jim Johnson, Former CFO of Adaptive Insights) Amid globally turbulent times, today's Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) function is striving to spend less of its time “Planning” and more time delivering value-added “Analysis” to its business constituents. How? Finance and its IT support teams need to focus on the future, utilizing the available modern tools – Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Analytics and Collaboration. Similar to the automotive industry working to deliver safe, self-driving vehicles, FP&A needs to “feel the need, the need for speed” [quoting Lt. Pete ‘Maverick' Mitchell in the Top Gun films] to drive automated or, even better, autonomous planning. What steps can your FP&A team take to harness technology today in order to optimize their time delivering the best possible analysis to your organization tomorrow? We'll ask Finance professionals Paul Davis at Analysis Prime, Colin Chu at SAP and Nilly Essaides at NeuGroup for their take on Driving The Emphasis on Analysis for Finance: Focus on Automation.

The Buzz 1: “As specialized tools and technology have emerged, the role of CFO has evolved. CFOs of companies large and small need to embrace flexibility, develop global strategies, and shift their focus to look forward rather than back.” (www.teampay.co/insights/cfo-quotes/) The Buzz 2: “When you are a successful company, you have to fight really hard to make sure you avoid complacency, arrogance, bureaucracy.” (Marianne Lake, CFO of JPMorgan Chase) The Buzz 3: “The CFO needs to be supported by a strategic FP&A team that is excellent at all levels… a team that is prepared for where the company is going—not where it's been.” (Jim Johnson, Former CFO of Adaptive Insights) Amid globally turbulent times, today's Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) function is striving to spend less of its time “Planning” and more time delivering value-added “Analysis” to its business constituents. How? Finance and its IT support teams need to focus on the future, utilizing the available modern tools – Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Analytics and Collaboration. Similar to the automotive industry working to deliver safe, self-driving vehicles, FP&A needs to “feel the need, the need for speed” [quoting Lt. Pete ‘Maverick' Mitchell in the Top Gun films] to drive automated or, even better, autonomous planning. What steps can your FP&A team take to harness technology today in order to optimize their time delivering the best possible analysis to your organization tomorrow? We'll ask Finance professionals Paul Davis at Analysis Prime, Colin Chu at SAP and Nilly Essaides at NeuGroup for their take on Driving The Emphasis on Analysis for Finance: Focus on Automation.

The Buzz 1: In his 2007 book “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable”, author and former options trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb focuses on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable outlier events—and the human tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events, retrospectively. He calls this the Black Swan theory. The Buzz 2: “If you ever do have to heed a forecast, keep in mind that its accuracy degrades rapidly as you extend it through time.” The Buzz 3: “We see the obvious and visible consequences, not the invisible and less obvious ones. Yet those unseen consequences…generally are more meaningful.” Gone are the days when, as a whole, Planning & Analysis for the office of the CFO and the enterprise could be ‘just OK.' With black swan events becoming the norm, requiring guidance and scenario modeling, FP&A can no longer wait on gathering data from convoluted spreadsheets and uncollaborative business units. Yes, the pressure is on the CFO to deliver highly credible plans and ever better analysis. But how? The answer: Modern planning processes and tools – adopting extended planning and analysis, analytics and visualization, and machine learning – will help you transform your company's Finance function from good to great. We'll ask Jon Essig at SimpleFi Solutions, Chris Ortega at Fresh FP&A, and Floyd Conrad at SAP for their take on The Black Swan vs Transforming Your FP&A from Good to Great!

The Buzz 1: “Tasked with guiding the growth of companies, building digital organizations, and transforming the finance function, CFOs must first identify their objectives and then decide whether they will lead with people, process, or performance.” (HBR Executive Brief: The CFO Agenda: Transforming the Finance Function) The Buzz 2: “CFOs say that their time on transformations would be best spent on role-modeling new mindsets and behaviors, setting high-level goals, and communicating the transformation's results—when, in practice, they are most often charged with traditional finance-oriented responsibilities.” (McKinsey: Mastering change: The new CFO mandate) The Buzz 3: “Behavioral competencies are key to the business partnership role—a ‘seat at the table' must be earned. A CFO needs to be a visible leader in the business, an excellent communicator, and an influencer.” (Paul Ainsworth – www.toptal.com/) Modern Planning & Analysis transformation offers many benefits to the organizations that embrace it. Top-line benefits include extending planning across business units and LOB's, connecting real time with ERP, and adopting predictive planning as a standard part of the process. Good news: Powerful technology is available to help planners and the office of the CFO change processes to meet their enterprise-wide goals. Sounds great, just do it! But is technology the best, most effective way to begin? Reality check: Adopting a modern extended planning and analysis process goes beyond merely adopting and adapting new technology. It needs to include – and begin with – a significant process transformation led by Finance. We'll ask Pras Chatterjee at SAP, Brian Kalish at Kalish Consulting and David Dixon at IBM for their take on Aligning with Planning & Analysis Transformation: Process Changes.

The Buzz 1: In his 2007 book “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable”, author and former options trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb focuses on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable outlier events—and the human tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events, retrospectively. He calls this the Black Swan theory. The Buzz 2: “If you ever do have to heed a forecast, keep in mind that its accuracy degrades rapidly as you extend it through time.” The Buzz 3: “We see the obvious and visible consequences, not the invisible and less obvious ones. Yet those unseen consequences…generally are more meaningful.” Gone are the days when, as a whole, Planning & Analysis for the office of the CFO and the enterprise could be ‘just OK.' With black swan events becoming the norm, requiring guidance and scenario modeling, FP&A can no longer wait on gathering data from convoluted spreadsheets and uncollaborative business units. Yes, the pressure is on the CFO to deliver highly credible plans and ever better analysis. But how? The answer: Modern planning processes and tools – adopting extended planning and analysis, analytics and visualization, and machine learning – will help you transform your company's Finance function from good to great. We'll ask Jon Essig at SimpleFi Solutions, Chris Ortega at Fresh FP&A, and Floyd Conrad at SAP for their take on The Black Swan vs Transforming Your FP&A from Good to Great!

The Buzz 1: In his 2007 book “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable”, author and former options trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb focuses on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable outlier events—and the human tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events, retrospectively. He calls this the Black Swan theory. The Buzz 2: “If you ever do have to heed a forecast, keep in mind that its accuracy degrades rapidly as you extend it through time.” The Buzz 3: “We see the obvious and visible consequences, not the invisible and less obvious ones. Yet those unseen consequences…generally are more meaningful.” Gone are the days when, as a whole, Planning & Analysis for the office of the CFO and the enterprise could be ‘just OK.' With black swan events becoming the norm, requiring guidance and scenario modeling, FP&A can no longer wait on gathering data from convoluted spreadsheets and uncollaborative business units. Yes, the pressure is on the CFO to deliver highly credible plans and ever better analysis. But how? The answer: Modern planning processes and tools – adopting extended planning and analysis, analytics and visualization, and machine learning – will help you transform your company's Finance function from good to great. We'll ask Jon Essig at SimpleFi Solutions, Chris Ortega at Fresh FP&A, and Floyd Conrad at SAP for their take on The Black Swan vs Transforming Your FP&A from Good to Great!

The Buzz 1: CFOs often perceive cybersecurity to be the responsibility of IT, but as more finance processes run remotely, CFOs need to develop security measures specifically for the finance function and not rely solely on the organization's blanket security protocols to safeguard financial data. (www.gartner.com) The Buzz 2: Finance leaders in the midst of leading or co-leading a broader transformation initiative (42% of CFOs, per Deloitte's CFO Signals™ survey for Q2-2021), may want to make modernizing their security model part of that effort. (deloitte.wsj.com) The Buzz 3: CFOs and their teams are the gatekeepers for the critical data required to generate forecasts and support senior leaders' strategic plans and decisions…At the top of the four areas of technology that show the most promise for use in finance: automation and robotics to improve processes in finance.” (www.mckinsey.com) Yes, organizations must find ways to thrive in today's disruptive business environment, with its shifting geo-political and financial landscapes, the momentum to digitize and automate, and increasing cybersecurity threats. How? Focus more on internal controls over most business processes as well as corporate resilience in financial and cybersecurity domains. Cybersecurity attacks not only affect normal business operations but add ambiguity to the reliability of financial statements. Stakeholders are under pressure from due diligence requirements to gain more reliable views of organizational risk, resilience, accountability and transparency. To ensure quarterly and annual reports accurately reflect financial status and to bolster cybersecurity protection, they are automating process controls as part of a financial transformation. We'll ask Dr. Neil Patrick at SAP, Mithilesh Kotwal at Protiviti and Tony Robey at Wipro for their insights on Cyber Resilience and Control Automation for Finance.

The Buzz 1: We've all heard these 'old saws' and know they're true: “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” “Plan your work and work your plan.” The Buzz 2: “We don't hand aircraft pilots 50 pages of Excel reports after they've landed the plane, telling them they went to the wrong airport or they ran out of fuel. They have real-time insight into the external environment and the aircraft operations.…It's essential for FP&A and performance management to be viewed holistically like that…We should be helping to successfully land the aircraft.” (Jack Alexander, author: Financial Planning and Analysis and Business Performance Management) The Buzz 3: “Gartner coined the term 'xP&A' in 2020, but…Expanding FP&A beyond finance has been a best practice for several years – referred to by many names: connected planning, collaborative enterprise planning, integrated business planning, and company-wide planning….” (https://insights.sap.com/what-is-xpa) Better planning leads to better results, especially for the CFO's Finance team. But is “better” good enough in our era of perpetual business change and turmoil? Finance experts agree that more is needed to optimize Finance's performance and value to the organization. How? The Financial P&A profession needs to evolve to Extended Planning and Analysis 'xP&A' to strengthen cross-business collaboration, create aligned plans, and rapidly transition from gaining enterprise-wide insights to taking action. This requires not just the latest technology, but an overhaul of processes to align operational and financial planning with strategic goals. We'll ask Pras Chatterjee at SAP, Bryan Lapidus at the Association for Financial Professionals, and Jeff Hattendorf at Macrospect for their insights on the Extended P&A Mindset: Time to Align on Strategic Goals.

The Buzz 1: We've all heard these 'old saws' and know they're true: “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” “Plan your work and work your plan.” The Buzz 2: “We don't hand aircraft pilots 50 pages of Excel reports after they've landed the plane, telling them they went to the wrong airport or they ran out of fuel. They have real-time insight into the external environment and the aircraft operations.…It's essential for FP&A and performance management to be viewed holistically like that…We should be helping to successfully land the aircraft.” (Jack Alexander, author: Financial Planning and Analysis and Business Performance Management) The Buzz 3: “Gartner coined the term 'xP&A' in 2020, but…Expanding FP&A beyond finance has been a best practice for several years – referred to by many names: connected planning, collaborative enterprise planning, integrated business planning, and company-wide planning….” (https://insights.sap.com/what-is-xpa) Better planning leads to better results, especially for the CFO's Finance team. But is “better” good enough in our era of perpetual business change and turmoil? Finance experts agree that more is needed to optimize Finance's performance and value to the organization. How? The Financial P&A profession needs to evolve to Extended Planning and Analysis 'xP&A' to strengthen cross-business collaboration, create aligned plans, and rapidly transition from gaining enterprise-wide insights to taking action. This requires not just the latest technology, but an overhaul of processes to align operational and financial planning with strategic goals. We'll ask Pras Chatterjee at SAP, Bryan Lapidus at the Association for Financial Professionals, and Jeff Hattendorf at Macrospect for their insights on the Extended P&A Mindset: Time to Align on Strategic Goals.

The Buzz: Michael E. Porter at Harvard Business School introduced the concept of a value chain in his book, Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance [2008]. Competitive advantage cannot be understood by looking at a firm as a whole. It stems from the many discrete activities a firm performs in designing, producing, marketing, delivering, and supporting its product.” He adds that it's important to maximize value at each specific point in a firm's processes. Finance organizations have increasingly evolved from backward-looking reporting to analyzing information in real-time, both from a financial accounting standpoint as well as management accounting. Taking this a step further, finance is actively engaging in advising other parts of the business based on predictive modeling. Logistical processes – ranging from procurement, supply chain, sales and customer experience, to even human resources – are all reflected in finance, providing a holistic view of an organization. Finance then has the opportunity to leverage this information to evaluate the financial impact of strategic decisions and advise their counterparts in all lines of business across an organization. We'll ask SAP's Birgit Starmanns, Accenture's Rob Campanile and Ventana Research's Robert Kugel for their take on Finance and Its Focus on Integration into the Value Chain.

The Buzz 1: “Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the troublemaking individual.” (Natalie Clifford Barney) The Buzz 2: “You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.” (Tina Fey) The Buzz 3: “The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.” (Roseanne Barr) The Buzz 4: “Being a successful female entrepreneur is hard work and comes with a unique set of challenges.” (Female Entrepreneur's Playbook: Secret Strategies from 20+ Women for Building a Business You Love and Getting Paid for It) We'll ask Cindy Zuelsdorf at Kokoro Marketing, Patricia Wooster at WoosterMedia, Tamra Andress at F.I.T. in Faith Media and Patty Rogers at B2B Digital Assistance, for their take on The Future for Female Entrepreneurs: A New Playing Field? – Part 2.

The Buzz 1: “Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the troublemaking individual.” (Natalie Clifford Barney) The Buzz 2: “You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.” (Tina Fey) The Buzz 3: “The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.” (Roseanne Barr) The Buzz 4: “Being a successful female entrepreneur is hard work and comes with a unique set of challenges.” (Female Entrepreneur's Playbook: Secret Strategies from 20+ Women for Building a Business You Love and Getting Paid for It) We'll ask Cindy Zuelsdorf at Kokoro Marketing, Patricia Wooster at WoosterMedia, Tamra Andress at F.I.T. in Faith Media and Patty Rogers at B2B Digital Assistance, for their take on The Future for Female Entrepreneurs: A New Playing Field? – Part 2.

The buzz (according to www.impactbnd.com): “Social media is ever-changing. There's always a new crazy way people can document every aspect of their lives, but what if you're a business? With so many social media sites already out there and even more popping up each day, where do you begin? Do you create a Facebook account or do you hop on whatever “the new Pinterest” is today? Utilizing social media in your business strategy…gives you the chance to connect with fans, customers, and prospective customers on a more personal, human level.” Popularity stats in terms of registered users: Facebook – 1.7B users, Twitter – 310+M, Instagram – 500M age 18–29, Flickr – 100M, Pinterest – 84M, LinkedIn – 20M, YouTube – 2B. Join us for Digital Selling Wheel of Fortune 2025: Insta, LinkedIn, iPhone, YouTube, Twitter, FB? as we ask experts Kirsten Boileau at SAP, Mark “The Sales Hunter” Hunter and Nicho Lagersten at Digiteyes for their predictions.

The buzz (according to www.impactbnd.com): “Social media is ever-changing. There's always a new crazy way people can document every aspect of their lives, but what if you're a business? With so many social media sites already out there and even more popping up each day, where do you begin? Do you create a Facebook account or do you hop on whatever “the new Pinterest” is today? Utilizing social media in your business strategy…gives you the chance to connect with fans, customers, and prospective customers on a more personal, human level.” Popularity stats in terms of registered users: Facebook – 1.7B users, Twitter – 310+M, Instagram – 500M age 18–29, Flickr – 100M, Pinterest – 84M, LinkedIn – 20M, YouTube – 2B. Join us for Digital Selling Wheel of Fortune 2025: Insta, LinkedIn, iPhone, YouTube, Twitter, FB? as we ask experts Kirsten Boileau at SAP, Mark “The Sales Hunter” Hunter and Nicho Lagersten at Digiteyes for their predictions.