A Virtual Tour of Our Virtual Campus. We Explore the State-of-the-Art Setting for the 2021 CMA|SIMA Conference. A conference’s venue sets the tone for the entire event. So, while the vast majority of Conferences have gone virtual over the past year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most have been plagued by the same central problems. No sense of place. No sense of community. Nothing to shake us awake to a new sense of possibility. The very idea of a conference is to uproot oneself from your every-day setting and surround yourself with inspiration and new ideas. So, with that [...]

Tech-Enabled M&A 101 5 Ways Digital Transformation Will Shape the Future of M&A. Digital transformation has quickly crept into almost every corner of the business world. When we imagine these processes, the first things that come to mind are often AI and automation to improve manufacturing operations or customer experiences. Or we think of IoT devices collecting Big Data and supercomputers creating captivating new analysis. We think of things that are designed to help businesses run more intelligently and efficiently. So, if that’s the case, wouldn’t it seem obvious that we could also be leveraging digital transformation to buy businesses more [...]

Who Says Finance Can’t Have Cool Tech? 4 Ways We’re Incorporating Cutting-Edge Technology Into FP&A. Digital transformation has caused a monumental shift in many areas of business. Sales, marketing and operations always seem to be touting the latest sexy technology - whether it’s AI, IoT or 5G, they always seem to get it first. Finance, or at least the market for finance department tech, has been slower to evolve. However, the last couple of years have seen a sharper rise in departmental tech for finance. According to Ernst & Young’s 2019 DNA of a CFO study, 58% of respondents said [...]