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Why Data is So Important to Manufacturing Budgets

Centage

Technology has been a boon for manufacturing in a million different ways – from online ordering, to faster invoicing, to optimizing sales teams. While all of this data helps manufacturing companies to be more efficient, when it comes it comes to creating a manufacturing budget , data is also just as critical.

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Unified Inbox Enables Text To Smart Home Communication

PYMNTS

Founded in 2010, internet-of-communications startup Unified Inbox works in part to enable device-to-smart appliance communications via text. And since Amazon has a habit of expanding its reach, the thought of the online retail giant developing its own smart appliances has likely crossed manufacturers’ minds.

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IoT adoption for finance leaders

Future CFO

At present, IoT applications are in isolated clusters, although there is a possibility for a unified, interconnected ecosystem across various industries including manufacturing, banking, healthcare and logistics, despite challenges in the fragmented IoT and cybersecurity landscape.

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Talent Strategies Demand a New Normal

CFO Leadership

These factors include an appropriate talent mindset among board members and executive leadership, the communication of the talent strategy and related objectives throughout the enterprise, and investments in supporting technology and human capital analytics. BLS data continues to show that there are, on average, 0.5

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901: The Welcome Box | Scott Healy, CFO, Fortera

CFO Thought Leader

We do this by helping our customers—who are cement manufacturers or producers and consumers—achieve their decarbonization plans. This is a very big number that is going virtually untouched. The cement manufacturing market is a very large market that is growing. Think about this: 8%! This really distinguishes us.

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Once Upon a Time in Financeland: How Storytelling Helps FP&A Succeed

Jedox Finance

Imagine replacing “stories” with “numbers” in these lines. While everyone understands good stories only some of us understand numbers, so they can never be the common denominator which we use to communicate to our audience. Hence, rather than leading with numbers FP&A must lead with stories to be heard.

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Smartphone Demand Plummets In China By 16 Pct

PYMNTS

The numbers are a bad sign for Apple Inc. Phone manufacturers delivered 28 million handsets last month, down from 33 million in June 2019, according to the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), a state-backed think tank, the paper reported. billion remains lukewarm, Reuters reported.