Experience Essentials: Commerce

Inconsistent shopping experiences across touch points can weaken brands. Successful shopping experiences happen when the right content is presented at the right time throughout the customer’s journey—in store and online. This Guide highlights the importance of experience driven commerce as a business practice, focusing on the imperatives of:

1. Unified experiences
2. Intelligence commerce
3. Business Agility
4. Enterprise at scale

What You Haven’t Considered About Managing Multicloud

Operate, secure and innovate in multicloud environments

The days of single public cloud deployments are gone. Indeed, driven by the numerous technology options, potential cost savings and the need for business agility, it’s reported that 93% of businesses are already moving to a multicloud architecture and deployment, leveraging multiple public as well as hybrid cloud providers.

Through this white paper from David Linthicum — a cloud computing thought leader, executive, consultant, author and speaker — you’ll come to understand:

  • The new complexity of multicloud
  • The capabilities necessary for managing multicloud environments
  • The best approach for capitalizing on the benefits of multicloud

The Game-Changing Power of Scenario Planning

Five best practices for Business Agility

By: Workday

Type: eBook

Now more than ever, agility is a business imperative. Without the ability to adjust revenue and expense assumptions over time, or model multiple scenarios simultaneously, or see the impacts of new markets, staffing changes, or new government regulations, companies simply won’t have the ability to weather whatever comes next; much less respond to changes in real time.
Read this eBook to learn how organizations like yours have replaced one-off annual plans with agile forecasts and timely data, so your organization can sharpen insight, reduce risk, and operate with agility. Discover these 5 best practices, that include:
• Model multiple what-if scenarios concurrently
• Enable rolling forecasts
• Keep everyone on the same page
• Get business partners to own the plan
• Combine top-down with bottom-up models and assumptions

Sponsor  By: Workday

Plan to Win – Achieving business agility in the age of urgency

By: Adaptive Insights (A Workday Company)

Type: eBook

Plan to Win reflects the collected experience and wisdom gained from working with thousands of companies, the insights of CFOs and FP&A practitioners, and other thought leaders, as well as research on how planning impacts business performance. The book sets forth a clear vision for where strategic business planning is headed and the impact it can have on your organization.

Use this eBook as a guide to embrace a new model of business agility, in which planning and execution converge into an entirely new discipline—an ongoing, closed feedback loop of planning, execution, measurement, and adjustment.
Chapter highlights:
Chapter 3: Active planning: a new model for business agility
Chapter 4: The central role of finance in business agility
Chapter 5: Driving better planning throughout the organization
Chapter 9: Agility, AI, and machine learning – preparing to capitalize on the future

Sponsor  By: Workday