Insights and Outlooks
The key to coming up with what’s next is reflecting carefully on the situations you face now, in the present. Here’s what we’ve seen lately — both with clients and at the Collective Insights’ office.
How COVID-19 is Impacting FP&A and What We Can Learn for Next Time
As Covid-19 spreads, businesses are forced into uncertain and ambiguous economic positions and, in extreme cases, it results in a survival mode mentality. To deal with this uncertainly, leadership is increasingly looking to the financial department for insights and...
How COVID-19 is Impacting FP&A and What We Can Learn for Next Time
As Covid-19 spreads, businesses are forced into uncertain and ambiguous economic positions and, in extreme cases, it results in a survival mode mentality. To deal with this uncertainly, leadership is increasingly looking to the financial department for insights and...
Ready Your Organization to Change
“Change is hard” – This is a common refrain after a tough project. Leaders must now explain going over budget and resistance bordering on rebellion based on the change that the organization just experienced. Change management professionals know these challenges are...
Stick the Landing: Using Change Management to Secure Long-Term Benefits of Initiatives
After a long, hard-fought implementation, you and your team celebrated a successful project completion. The new system promised to reduce costs and provide you with new insights that give your company a competitive advantage in the market. A few months after ending...
Comparing Collective Insights and The Big Consulting Firms
When I first started taking business classes during my freshman year at the University of Georgia (Go Dawgs!), I had no idea what I wanted to do after I graduated. I was pretty sure I wanted a business-related job, such as an accountant or financial adviser, but...
Can your supply chain weather any storm? How to optimize your supply chain for the future
Your supply chain is more than just moving goods and services from point A to point B. It’s also a reflection of how well your internal business goals and processes are aligned and your level of commitment to delivering value to your customers – today, tomorrow and 20...
Transitioning Agile to a Remote Environment
Working in consulting, we apply the agile methodology frequently to enable our clients to be nimble in addressing threats and elastic in intaking new opportunities. We are often faced with complex organizational environments where many different groups are required to...
What to Consider during a Merger and Acquisition
2020. What else do we have to say. No one has gone unscathed by the impacts of COVID-19: From Social distancing, to government-mandated mask wearing, not to mention the devastating blows to the world economy. Businesses, big and small, are faced with making strategic,...
The Power of Story: Use Storytelling to Breathe Life into Your Messaging
Who doesn’t love a good story? Yet there is seemingly little place for storytelling as a form of strategic communication. PowerPoint presentations that numb audiences with three-word bullets and stock imagery have become ubiquitous and are the norm of communication in...
What should your BCP look like having lived through a pandemic?
As a result of Covid 19, many businesses are susceptible to a variety of existing and emerging risks. Most companies around the globe have experience some sort of economic toll. Whether the impact affected business travel, disrupted supply chains, or involved...
Effective Strategic Selection – balancing onshore and offshore vendors
We help strategically select the right resources to meet your needs Finding a balance between onshore and offshore vendor resources is an excellent way to maximize productivity and find budget efficiencies. But it’s important to keep in mind that onshore vs. offshore...