News & views
News & views
Sharing thoughts and updates for inspiration
CFO insight – Automate your ‘A’ Game
This June we held the first of our {e}ngage sessions – a series of highly informative interviews with FTSE 250 executives. In our first session we spoke to several leading CFOs about the use of Automation in Finance.
Team embracent take on Y3P to raise money for Ashgate Hospicecare
On September 25th over 20 members of the embracent team will be walking the Yorkshire 3 Peaks to try and raise over £2500 for Ashgate Hospicecare, the charity providing compassionate and specialist palliative and end of life care, free of charge, to patients with a life-limiting illness and their families across North Derbyshire.
Approaching change – a podcast with Mark Lockton-Goddard
Join Hannah Munro, Managing Director of ITAS, and our CEO Mark Lockton Goddard as they discuss digital transformation strategies, giving an overview of the right and wrong ways to approach change.
Automation Case Study: Ashgate Hospicecare
With hospices having to re-think how they deliver care following the pandemic, the work we are doing with Ashgate Hospicecare will provide valuable insight to help identify efficiencies and opportunities.
Balancing your data ledger
Financial reporting is often thought of as the ongoing retrospective, month-end look back at purely operational financial performance – often solely sourced from your Finance or ERP system. In reality, there are 3 different layers of financial data that should be looked at in order to get a complete and insightful view of finance throughout your business.
Halls of residence or reticence?
COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the higher education sector in a number of different ways; A-Level students, having had to their exam dates changed several times haven’t been able to physically visit their prospective future places of study, brand new 1st year fresher students haven’t been able to immerse themselves into on-campus university life, and final year students are struggling to stay focused in ever changing circumstances as they try to obtain their best final grades to graduate, albeit without the promise of a graduation ceremony.
Finding your road to insight
When the country first entered into a lockdown, there was a focus on transport and traffic, with stark differences between pre and post March 2020. With the upcoming lifting of restrictions planned and with it, the return to offices and commuting for many, it is interesting to revisit these metrics.
Challenge the ordinary
We believe in challenging the ordinary – the usual ways of working, the idea that ‘that’s the way we’ve always done it’, the mindset of ‘if it ain’t broke, why fix it?’ Because the hard reality is, many processes are broken, costing organisations huge sums in manual effort and/or re-work.
Earth Day 2021
Earth Day is an annual event celebrated globally on 22nd April to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It’s also a great opportunity for organisations to learn about environmental factors that affect employee wellness and implement practices to encourage a healthy and happy lifestyle. Here are a few ways we are doing our part to help at embracent.