Voice and Conversational AI are revolutionizing industries by enhancing customer interactions, automating processes, and improving security. This infographic presents 10 key quantitative data points, ...

Shadow vs. Sanctioned - Employees love consumer AI because it remembers, adapts, and gets out of the way. Then they meet the sanctioned tool: brittle, stateless, and slow. That’s not “resistance to ch...

Introduction In a high-volume, high-velocity, low-margin business, the finance function cannot afford to be slow. Every day the books stay open is a day leadership is flying without instruments. For a growing restaurant distribution company, that was the reality. Their accounting and operational systems had not kept pace with the business, and the gap was being filled by something no CFO wants to depend on: human heroics and Excel. Altum Strategy Group was brought in to change that — and over three years, we did. The Challenge The company had grown significantly, but its financial infrastructure had not grown with it. Reporting relied on manual effort across fragmented, siloed systems; at least ten separate applications that could not talk to each other and could not provide the unified view that leadership needed to run the business. Getting a clear picture of financial health required considerable manual intervention every reporting cycle. The consequences were predictable. The monthly close took 30+ days. Operational visibility was inconsistent. Headcount planning across locations was difficult to execute with confidence. Leadership could not easily identify where operations were overperforming, where they were underperforming, or where attention was most needed. The finance function was consuming capacity that […]

Bill Sherman talks with serial entrepreneur and systems strategist Apple Levy, author of "The Apple Effect".