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Why Collaborative Budgeting is important during WFH/hybrid work
Whether you refer to it as “decentralized”, “distributed”, or “collaborative”, engaging multiple participants in the budgeting process can be a challenge, especially during today’s WFH/hybrid environment. Department heads are often...
The Benefits of Budgeting as a Team
The benefits of embracing a team approach to budgeting are extensive. Successful multi-participant budgeting leads to increases in innovation, accuracy, engagement, and more. Rather than finance teams wasting time trying to track down spreadsheets and fix broken...
Finance Leaders on COVID-19 Pandemic & Beyond
Top Takeaways for TODAY from Finance Leaders on COVID-19 Pandemic: What have we learned, what do we still need to figure out, what’s next – and how do we make that happen in a state of constant change? COVID-19 has changed and continues to change the way we handle...
What drives post-purchase satisfaction of budgeting & forecasting software?
Avoiding Buyers Regret – What drives post-purchase satisfaction in BPM software? Recent results of the annual BPM Pulse survey provide insight into what finance teams are looking for in software – and what makes them most satisfied with software AFTER the...
Less Variance, More Accurate Numbers: Top Drivers in the Search for Better Budgeting
What drives the decision to leave Excel? How do you measure success? What is your budgeting ROI? There’s rarely one definitive driver behind the search for better budgeting. Rather it’s a mix of issues – some are quantitative where success is easily measured:...
How Organizational Culture Impacts Financial Planning & Performance
There’s a phenomenon that occurs as organizations grow. To facilitate expansion and support rapid growth, they create dedicated departments. But over time, the creation of these dedicated teams can eventually have a negative impact on growth – affecting...
Truth in advertising (and sales) – why business development culture matters.
How exactly do you assess an organization’s business development culture … their ethical (or not so ethical) approach to sales and marketing? And – why should you care? For many of our customers in the higher education, nonprofit, and business services industries –...
Budgeting Persona: Finding the “Right-Fit”
As a software company we’re constantly striving to find that “right-fit” – something that builds in all the important complexities of budgeting yet seems effortless and simple. In order to make a software solution that truly excels in usability – we have to match the...
Top 5 Benefits of Multi-participant Budgeting
Group projects. A uniquely painful experiment that many of us try to avoid at all cost… Two-way communication between team members is often a challenge. Someone (or several “someones”) are perpetually behind and need to be coaxed along. There’s always formatting...
