Jan

31

Ten victories for the Human Resources function

January 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment

In our four years of running better practice exercises for the HR function, we have accumulated a wealth of better practice ideas. Based on participants experience, the following suggestions have been made to assist you in aligning your HR function to “better practice”. Make your HR monthly report work for you by introducing clear performance [...]

Jan

25

Is your board reporting process out of control?

January 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Board papers can reach mammoth proportions, tying up vast amounts of management time in preparation. The result of these excesses, are often late board meetings with the papers often being sent to the directors only a day or two before the meeting. The board meetings themselves can then be side tracked by the detail with [...]

Jan

25

Is too much time going in to your month end reporting process?

January 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Much valuable management and accounting function time is invested across the country in this exercise. Does the impact of the reporting process in your organisation warrant the investment you make? The impact of a quick month end is significant. Take two hypothetical organisations with 500 staff and say 20 accounting staff. In the example shown [...]

Jan

25

Have you got the balance right?

January 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Much valuable management and accounting function time is invested across the country in processing and reporting rather than advice. Do you have an accounting function that is shackled to its office meeting processing and reporting requirements? The Problem How to redress the balance when there are system constraints, people constraints, and demands from senior management. From [...]

Jan

25

Does your HR function get time to take its fire fighting gear off?

January 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Much valuable Human Resource time is invested fighting the “the organisation fires” rather than dealing with advisory and strategic issues. Do you have an HR function that never gets time to take its fire fighting gear off? Data from waymark solutions limited studies suggest HR functions are finding ways to spend more of their time [...]

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