On this page, you will find our experts’ latest contributions, their analyses and insights drawn in the midst of this unprecedented period of crisis we are navigating together.
Taking a step back or providing action guides for decision-makers and managers, this selection of articles provides a global and complementary look at your sector or profession, based on our experience from the field in the transformation of companies and public organisations.
IT & Strategy
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Teleworking (The new normal?)
- Accelerated deployment of solutions (digital workplace, smart networks)
- Change management
- Transformation: moving towards “new ways of working”
- Innovation: immersion into virtual reality, digital twin, etc.
Process optimisation
- “Concrete” AI: identification of target markets and implementation of solutions
- Automation: Citizen IT approach, RPA
- Management: implementation of indicators (Data Visualisation, Power BI, etc.)
Finance, Risk & Procurement
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- Cash first !
- Cash is the focus of attention and is a major short-term challenge to ensure the survival of the company
- A twofold challenge of managing the "client" position in the short term by launching "Cash Marathon" type initiatives and strengthening the Order-to-Cash process from start to finish by instilling a stronger "cash culture" within the organization in order to make it successful
- Agile and responsive: financial management in a time of crisis
- An omnipresent VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) environment, reinforced by the economic crisis, is revealing the weaknesses and limitations of the traditional management cycle
- A forecasting cycle is to be adapted and rethought (in particular, the budget which is an almost obsolete reference), based on simple and proven principles, inspired by the "Beyond Budgeting" approach, making Rolling Forecasting a key element of agile financial management
- Healthy, safe...and competitive
- A critical economic situation that requires companies to consider more generally the question of costs, their structure and their importance in order to guarantee their competitiveness
- The implementation of an operational plan that should rapidly generate savings opportunities and ensure their sustainability beyond the plan alone, by controlling the risks involved in such a project
- Purchasing during recovery
- A severe economic crisis that will require a significant recovery effort in the coming months, in which Purchasing must be a major player
- A recovery that involves adapting and overhauling the Purchasing strategy, placing supplier relations and management at the heart of the plan, based on effective but responsible performance plans, in a dynamic that should facilitate closer ties with the various business line
Management & Leadership
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- Redesign the operational model of the HR function and optimize the economic performance in times of crisis (redefine the priority of business activities, reduce costs and external expenses, optimize and improve the automation of core processes, boost digitalization, greatly optimize training thanks to digital technology, etc.)
- Establish a “new social deal” to restart efficiently following the health crisis: renegotiate the social standing of the firm, review the salary policy, analyze the impacts on retirements and pension fund, update the employee savings plan, etc.
- Perform a 360° diagnostic following the crisis: analysis of the HR continuity plan, tight steering of teams’ workload, review of work organization, maturity audit and review of digitalization level per process, boost training through digital technology, etc.
- Assist your teams when facing the end of the health crisis: coach managers to cope with the situation, enhance listening and support systems for employees, select and implement adapted digital solutions to improve working conditions for teams and managers
- Redesign the employee experience and adapt it to the current crisis situation: uncover the lessons learned from the crisis to develop your resilience in terms of ways of working and remote management to manage your future transformations
- Perform all the necessary HR actions linked to the end of the crisis: update the occupational risk assessment document , review and adapt SWP/competency management, review bonuses policy, adapt performance review and promotion process, etc.