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AstraZeneca’s Axial Transformation: A Digital Backbone for Innovation

Timo Elliott

At UKISUG Connect 2024, AstraZeneca charted their plans for the future, with some help from SAP. End-to-End Processes : The program covers 1,500 processes across finance, operations, R&D, and commercial functions, with an 80%+ fit-to-standard target. Early planning and alignment with leadership are essential.

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Are You Aware of These FP&A Best Practices?

Insight Software

Therefore, the finance team plays a critical role similar to the human heart by planning, managing, analysing, and allocating the organisation’s cash to various departments to ensure efficient and smooth functioning and achieve organisational goals. Finance is the heart, and cash is the blood.

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Making Effective Product Decisions: Tips for Deciding with Stakeholders and Dev Teams

Roman Pichler

In practical terms, involve stakeholders and dev teams in decisions that affect the product strategy and the product roadmap —be it that you create the plans or that you make bigger changes to them. Then invite the right people to a collaborative workshop, no matter if it takes place online or onsite. Lead by Example.

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10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Roman Pichler

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Sprint planning meeting : product goal , prioritised product backlog with enough ready items , development team capacity for the next sprint, and any action items from the last sprint retrospective.

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Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

Others do everything they can to make the stakeholders agree to their ideas and plans. For example, these stakeholders are likely to include representatives from marketing, sales, support, and finance for a commercial product. But neither of these two approaches is desirable. Establish clear roles and responsibilities.

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Breaking Barriers: How Lean Budgeting Unites Finance and Agile for Strategic Success

Cprime

Why do finance and Agile teams often face challenges in collaboration? – Finance and Agile teams face challenges because Agile teams cut across cost center and organizational boundaries, impacting traditional finance models. Current finance tools are not well equipped to accommodate this change.

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How to Get Business Analyst Jobs in Canada

The BAWorld

The opportunities for Business Analysts in Canada span across Healthcare, Finance, Information technology, Telecommunication and Government Institutions. Companies in IT and finance, which heavily rely on business analysis expertise, are increasingly adopting remote and hybrid models.