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What are organizations using for annual employee performance evaluations and tracking leadership development progress?

Human Resources (HRIS)

Commercial SaaS Offering - Please provide details if possible

Internally Developed

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When potential customers don’t purchase, what’s the top skill-related reason your sales team cites?

People & Leadership Applications & Platforms Process Management+4 more

Lack of visibility into customer interactions

Blindspots during coaching

Lack of understanding of what’s going on in the market

Other (I'll explain below)

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Do you agree with this prediction from Gartner: 25% of people will spend at least one hour per day in the Metaverse by 2026.

Disruptive & Emerging Technologies Culture & Values Employee Engagement

Strongly agree

Agree

Neither agree nor disagree

Disagree

Strongly disagree

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What are your concerns when outsourcing?

Engineering Process Management People & Leadership+4 more

Lack of commitment/trust

Wasted time & cost in searching process & trials

Managing differences among vendors

Damage to existing credibility in case of bad resources

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Are you more or less confident in your communication in a virtual setting?

Culture & Values Productivity Tools Business Relationships

More Confident

Less Confident

Neither more nor less confident

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Are your remote employees able to access office space without appointment?

Team & Organizational Design Process Management Employee Engagement

Yes

Some employees can, but not all.

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Legacy tech is the biggest hurdle in supply chain digitization.

IT Strategy & Roadmap Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Process Management

Strongly agree

Agree

Neutral

Disagree

Strongly disagree

Unsure (explain in the comments)

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What types of third-party risks are most concerning to your organization?

Security & GRC

Cyber attacks & Data breaches

Supply chain disruptions

Regulatory non-compliance

Financial risks

Reputation risks

All of the above

None of the above

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Have you implemented a GRC (Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance) program in your organization?

Yes

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Is all this hype about CHAPT GPT, Bing+ and all the AI tools that have come into the public of value or a distraction to your business and digital transformation plans?

Applications & Platforms Cloud Data & Analytics+5 more

Value

Distraction

Neither value nor distraction

Not sure

What AI?

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How do you sort out KPIs to determine which ones assess current financial health vs. future financial health?

Financial Management Finance KPIs, Metrics & Reporting+1 more

Sajan SadhwaniSenior Financial Analyst at Metrolinxa year ago

If you don't understand a KPI its just a number. What does "3" mean to you? How does it make you feel? is it large or small? If my income was reduced to $3K per month, I'd be unhappy. On the other hand if ...read more

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How does your company ensure that its suppliers are committed to sustainability throughout their entire supply chain?

Sajan SadhwaniSenior Financial Analyst at Metrolinxa year ago

What we do and what has been done at other organizations that I've worked is that we have a Supplier Code of Conduct and we ask that our suppliers share that code with their suppliers and so on.

The issue with ...read more

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What do you foresee about the impact of increasing tension of the global Geopolitical (wars, political conflicts, humanitarian crises, rare earth metals & elements, clean water & air, food supply, etc.) on supply chain risk management and disruptions, and what should we do to overcome or prepare for?

Risk Management Culture & Values Peer Insights

Sajan SadhwaniSenior Financial Analyst at Metrolinxa year ago

This is an omnibus question that someone could write a book length answer about or give a short superficial answer about. I'll try to aim for something in between.

We've had wars, political conflicts, humanitarian ...read more

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What steps can the finance team take to measure the ROI of cybersecurity investments and demonstrate their value to IT or the CISO? How collaborative is the process between teams?

Risk Management Security Finance

Sajan SadhwaniSenior Financial Analyst at Metrolinxa year ago

There are certain items that are "network expenditures" (not be confused with computer networking, i.e. LAN, etc. Network expenditures in this case refers to items that only have value when they're used with something ...read more

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Are you finding that your finance team gets more stressed during the close process? Any good ideas to help teams feel more at ease?

Finance Culture & Values

Sajan SadhwaniSenior Financial Analyst at Metrolinxa year ago

For me it is really about the planning process. Looking for ways to move work outside the busiest period. Morning stand up meetings during the close process are great to keep everyone on track and avoid last minute stresses ...read more

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What are specific advantages of implementing a common, productive Chart of Accounts in comparison to have various chart of accounts within the group and mapping them on group level only?

Financial Management Finance

Sajan SadhwaniSenior Financial Analyst at Metrolinxa year ago

Hello, for me the main reason why you would want a common chart of accounts is that you are able to run internal benchmarks and analyze KPIs, financial statements, etc consistently across multiple business, regions etc.
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How have you explored using conversational AI in your phone menu/IVR to replace your client operator agents?

Sajan SadhwaniSenior Financial Analyst at Metrolinxa year ago

We haven't used this but I'm familiar enough the technology. I strongly discourage using it as a replacement for the phone menu/IVR or to replace client operator agents.

It should be used as an addon, i.e. ...read more

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How do you keep a team motivated in absence of leadership?

People & Leadership

Sajan SadhwaniSenior Financial Analyst at Metrolinxa year ago

You don't. Keeping a team motivated means leadership, if you don't have it, you aren't likely to have motivation. You might motivate the team but it will likely be to leave. If you are lucky they'll leave ...read more

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Are you a believer in "The Great Reshuffle" trend? Do you think it is different than "The Great Resignation" during the pandemic? Is your organization making any extra or recent adjustments in order to specially address employee churn?

Sajan SadhwaniSenior Financial Analyst at Metrolinxa year ago

Often more effort is put into the buzzword than the content. I think that is partially the case here. Covid was a disruption to the labor market. In some cases it suppressed labor turnover since employers and employees had ...read more

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What’s the biggest red flag your job isn’t as promising as you once thought it was? Either as a recently hired employee or as a veteran of a company that might be changing.

Sajan SadhwaniSenior Financial Analyst at Metrolinxa year ago

This varies by role and by department. For example if you work in a retail store then foot traffic is a good indicator for you. If you work in AP then you are not likely to have visibility into that.

There are some ...read more

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