Resource Type: Video

Senior Business and IT stakeholders involved in digital transformation, agile adoption, and transitioning from project to product business architecture often face challenges aligning project-based funding models with product-driven initiatives, hindering scalability and adoption.

Explore the strategy and process, supported by IBM Apptio products, to align enterprise finance with a product-centric business architecture. By engaging Finance, Business, and IT stakeholders in a dialogue around product-based business architecture and fixed capacity allocation, finance can shift into a transformative role while maintaining necessary controls and compliance.

Speakers:

	Konstantin Popov VP, Strategic Portfolio Cprime
	Lisa Lyman Business Transformation Consultant Cprime

Aligning enterprise strategy, technology and execution for CFO success

Join us for an insightful webinar designed exclusively for CFOs and high-level finance executives, where Cprime’s Konstantin Popov will delve into the critical intersection of enterprise strategy, technology, and execution.

This session will provide you with actionable insights to address pressing financial challenges, optimize costs, increase revenue, manage risks, and ensure compliance in today’s complex business environment. Learn how to align your operations with cutting-edge tools and integrated platforms to achieve key organizational objectives, including strategic resource allocation and sustainable growth.

You will gain practical strategies to improve financial planning and analysis, optimize working capital, enhance profitability, and drive sustainable growth. You will also hear real-world examples of how leading CFOs have successfully navigated complex challenges, secured their company’s financial health, and driven shareholder value.

Whether you are navigating regulatory pressures, market volatility, digital transformation, or the need for agile financial planning, this webinar will equip you with the knowledge and strategies to enhance your financial leadership and drive bottom-line results.

Don’t miss this opportunity to transform your financial strategy and execution.

Key takeaways:

• TCO Optimization and Expense Management:
  • Discover best practices for optimizing capital allocation, controlling costs, and maximizing return on investment.
  • Learn how to manage variable infrastructure costs and transition to fixed capacity funding to maintain financial stability.
• Revenue Enhancement:
  • Explore strategies to ensure investments are driving revenue growth and increasing EBITDA.
  • Understand how to implement P&L management at the product/service level to make informed investment decisions.
• Risk Management and Compliance:
  • Gain insights into enhancing risk management and ensuring regulatory compliance to safeguard your organization.
  • Learn about governance and control mechanisms to maintain financial integrity.
• Advanced Analytics and Automation:
  • Leverage advanced analytics, AI, and process automation to streamline operations, reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), and boost profitability.
  • Implement performance metrics and reporting tools that provide actionable insights for better decision-making.
• Funding Innovation and Digital Transformation:
  • Identify effective ways to fund innovation while maintaining financial stability and driving sustainable growth.
  • Successfully guide the financial aspects of digital transformation initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and profitability.
• Workforce and Labor Financial Management:
  • Develop strategies to manage workforce costs and productivity while attracting and retaining top talent.
  • Understand labor financial management to optimize workforce expenses and improve overall financial performance.
• Growth Strategies:
  • Learn the keys to developing successful financial strategies for growth through mergers and acquisitions.
  • Explore horizons planning to fund digital technologies and innovation.

Konstantin Popov Vice President, Enterprise Portfolio & Financial Management

Aligning Customer Value, Iterative Product Delivery, and Financial Performance

Organizations must continuously evolve and adapt to market changes and their customers’ ever-changing needs to stay relevant and thrive in this digital age. Leaders recognize that they can only do this through digital transformation, leveraging digital technology, agile best practices, relentless automation, and the ability to maximize the use of data to create meaningful strategies.

Join us as Luke Hohmann, Chief Innovation Officer at Applied Frameworks and author of “Software Profit Streams™: A Guide to Designing a Sustainably Profitable Business,” and Konstantin Popov, VP of ETFM at Cprime, discuss how organizations can achieve sustainable profitability in the digital age. They will discuss how capacity-based value streams aligned with incremental product delivery can make customer value more transparent and better tie costs to value delivered, enabling companies to control costs while increasing value. Hohmann and Popov will stress the importance of looking beyond traditional metrics to understand how customer value, product releases, and pricing impact revenue, profit, and enterprise value.

Key Learnings:

1. Discover strategies for successfully navigating the digital landscape by leveraging innovative tools, methodologies, and data analytics to maintain a competitive edge.
2. Learn how aligning resource allocation with iterative product delivery can enhance the visibility of customer value and establish a clear link between expenses and value generation.
3. Gain insights into the significance of evaluating non-traditional performance indicators to comprehend the intricate relationships between customer perceived worth, product launch strategies, and financial outcomes for sound business choices.

	Luke Hohmann Chief Innovation Officer Applied Frameworks
	Konstantin Popov VP, Enterprise Technology & Financial Management Cprime