For years, finance teams heard the same warning: do not automate a broken process. The phrase appeared in consulting reports, ERP playbooks, and countless transformation programs across finance and operations. It became a foundational belief among finance professionals.
What does it take to create a strong governance and internal control environment?
Enjoy this series of shorts on Metrics from Jim.
Well-crafted metrics are a powerful driver of performance. Done even pretty well, they can provide a miraculous mix of recognition, motivation, and results. Done wrong, they damage motivation, drown direction in confusion, and dissolve the resolve that produces great organization results.
This edition captures AI’s rapid shift from innovation to large-scale execution. OpenAI is scaling infrastructure with historic funding, Burger King is embedding AI into frontline operations, Nous Research is advancing open-source personal agents, Perplexity is championing multi-model orchestration, and Anthropic is integrating AI directly into enterprise workflows.
The disciplines of Accounting, Finance and Treasury combined with great Leadership skills are fundamental to improving not only our careers and the companies we work at - but are foundational disciplines required to build thriving communities and economies.
