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The Assurance Gap: why your Board’s confidence is not evidence
Every board I have sat with believes its organisation makes good decisions. Most of the time, they are right. The problem is the word “believes”. Confidence is not evidence. And the distance between the two has a name. What is the Assurance Gap? The Assurance Gap is the difference between
Is Your Capital Allocation Process Costing More Than It Saves?
Every organisation has a process for approving capital expenditure. Investment committees meet, business cases are tabled, and budgets are signed off. What rarely receives the same rigour is the question that precedes all of it: are the right initiatives being funded in the first place? Financial controls govern how money
Anaplan vs APO
Anaplan is one of the most sophisticated connected planning platforms available. If your organisation uses it, you already have serious financial modelling capability. So, why let APO (Advanced Portfolio Optimisation) into the conversation? We know the instinctive response from finance teams is often: “We already have Anaplan for that.” Understandable,
Key Enterprise AI Risks for Capital-Intensive Organisations
Capital-intensive organisations are investing heavily in AI. Palantir, C3.ai, Dataiku, and Databricks, as we explored in depth in this article, are among the platforms most frequently evaluated, deployed, and expanded across utilities, infrastructure, energy, and government. ChatGPT, Claude and Microsoft Copilot are being used by people in their daily and
What Is Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and Why Is It Most Frequently Used in Government Asset Management?
Government asset managers face a decision problem that financial analysis alone cannot solve. The assets they manage serve multiple purposes simultaneously: community access, public safety, environmental obligation, and long-term strategic value. When capital is limited and competing investments must be ranked, a methodology that measures only financial return will always
Google Sheets & Microsoft Excel vs APO
Almost every large organisation uses spreadsheets to govern capital investment decisions. Not because they are the right tool for the job, but because they are familiar, accessible, and already in place. The question is not whether Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets are useful. They indisputably are. But are they fit
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