Doing both results in significantly improved return on invested capital, Gartner advises.
Finance chiefs and IT leaders should be jointly responsible for aligning technology opportunities with business strategy.
Having finance team members support business unit stakeholders drains EBITDA, says Gartner; instead, align them with specific types of decisions to be made.
Machine learning and AI solutions are difficult to deploy, often overhyped, and may have little bottom-line impact: Gartner.
Robotic process automation emerges from the back office to take on core finance tasks.
Internal resistance to change — or mental momentum — can prevent companies from properly responding to new market economics.
Confusion over what “artificial intelligence” is — and is not — poses challenges for CFOs.
Spending cash to achieve strategic goals beats tight cost controls at the bottom line, research suggests.
The strong growth is being driven by the shift away from legacy IT as organizations pursue a digital business strategy.
A Gartner survey says spending on cloud-based programs will lead the way as organizations modernize their applications.
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It would cost the typical large company many millions to fully modernize its mainframe applications.
