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Our experts Raphael Miolane, Senior Managing Director in Corporate Finance & Restructuring, and Michael Ovalles, Senior Managing Director in Business Transformation, Office of the CFO Solutions Practice, discussed the current trend of outsourcing & offshoring financial functions for global companies, during the AmCham France CFO Club virtual session. Here are the key insights of their discussion: ✔ The main factors for outsourcing are access to specialized skills and cost optimization. ✔ Ensuring effective integration and onboarding of new talent is essential in a competitive global environment ✔ High turnover rates in offshoring strategies require close attention ✔ There is a noticeable shift towards outsourcing knowledge-based tasks, which can highlight the value of specialized and strategic skills over purely transnational activities ✔ The new opportunities brought by Advanced Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence. Thank you to AmCham France and all the participants for this wonderful session! #ExpertsWithImpact #Outsourcing #Offshoring #CFO

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Leader's Challenge: When it comes to tactics and strategies, General Vincent Desportes' recent book 'Entrer en Stratégie' is a must-read. As General Desportes highlights, the strategic exercise is intricate and evolves in an environment that defies predictability. Tactics play a crucial role in this landscape, emphasizing the shared goal that unites us all. According to Jack Welch, strategy is the continuous evolution of a core idea amidst ever-changing circumstances. General Desportes further elaborates that strategy is more of a sketch than a script, initially assertive but swiftly adapting to subtle shifts, always poised for adjustment. Thanks to Thierry Legrand for his insightful discussion. #strategy #tactics #uncertainty #vulnerability #decision

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Join us on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, at ESCP Business School for "Shaping the Future of France's Startup Nation," organized by Web3TalentFair and Kurious Society. This event brings together thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators to discuss how startups are driving France's economic rejuvenation and shaping its future. Featuring two icons in France’s entrepreneurial ecosystem: 🎤 Roxanne VARZA, director of STATION F, championing innovation and talent at the world’s largest startup campus. 🎤 Michael Benabou, co-founder of Veepee, a pioneer in e-commerce and venture capital. Moderated by Adam Ayache (President, Kurious Society) and Benoît K. (founder, Web3TalentFair & GoodHive), the event will explore how French entrepreneurs are emerging as change-makers, revitalizing both the national and European economy. 📅 Mark your calendar to join the conversation that’s set to drive the future of innovation in France! 🔗 Link to the event in the first comment.

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Keen to speak about blockchain & AI with my fellow friend Ilya Zuckerman. 🖥️ Join our webinar to understand the synergies between both emerging technologies 💡 Value proposal, live use cases, VC investment trends, challenges and future potential 🔗 register: https://lnkd.in/eMwFZWf2 #blockchain #ai #agenticai

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Dont forget to stop by the Actian or Zeenea booths tomorrow at #BDAIP24! We'll be there for you to exchange on #datacatalog #datamarketplace #data #dataliteracy #dataintelligence #datadiscovery!

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🌟 Empowering Swiss Banking & Beyond: Driving Resilience and Innovation with Wavestone 🌟! As we work with our clients in Switzerland’s banking sector and beyond, Cybersecurity, Cloud Transformation, SAP integration, and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) have emerged as pivotal to staying resilient in a rapidly evolving landscape. In banking, especially, cybersecurity and cloud solutions are key to meeting regulatory standards and client expectations for seamless, secure experiences. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence and sustainability are gaining momentum, reflecting a shift towards forward-thinking, responsible innovation. While projects in these areas are developing steadily, it’s clear they’ll play a crucial role in shaping the future of banking and other industries in Switzerland. Excited to help our clients navigate these transformative changes with the strength of Wavestone’s expertise! #Cybersecurity #Cloud #SAP #PLM #ArtificialIntelligence #Sustainability #SwissBanking #Wavestone #DigitalTransformation #BusinessResilience #Innovation

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A few weeks ago I was presenting a keynote at the #B2BSummit in the beautiful Parc des Princes (PSG). Aude DAVID wrote this article about it. Here is the link: https://zurl.co/D8JG This is a summary of the article in English for the "non-francophones": Salespeople are facing constant changes. What impact does this have on their relationships with buyers, and what attitude should be adopted to consolidate these relationships in the future? IÉSEG Research prof. Bert Paesbrugghe delivered his vision at the last BtoB Summit. A few key takeaways: - Don't rush into new technologies. Take the time to understand the hype cycle and how a technology can actually help you build better customer relationships. - Focus on what you do best. While it is important to keep an eye on new technologies and macroeconomic changes, don't spread yourself too thin. Focus on what you know and what you can do well, and use technology to support your efforts. - Constantly improve customer satisfaction. Are you really listening to your customers? This is often more of a communication argument than a real practice. In his research on buyers, he notes that they expect constant improvements, while salespeople often settle for a one-shot deal. - Measure customer satisfaction regularly. Use a variety of indicators (more than 1) and target them by customer segment. - Be transparent about what you can and cannot do. Set realistic expectations and avoid disappointing customers. Of course, technology is only a part of the bigger theme: managing customer relationships in challenging times and #CustomerExperience, which will be explained more in detail in my book The Buyer's Balance. Pre-sales online at Fnac Belgium Standaard Boekhandel and my publisher BORGERHOFF & LAMBERIGTS #TheBuyersBalance #IESEG #customercentricity Vockam: EvaluationsHub Mohamed Khodja

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Our experts Raphael Miolane, Senior Managing Director in Corporate Finance & Restructuring, and Michael Ovalles, Senior Managing Director in Business Transformation, Office of the CFO Solutions Practice, discussed the current trend of outsourcing & offshoring financial functions for global companies, during the AmCham France CFO Club virtual session. Here are the key insights of their discussion: ✔ The main factors for outsourcing are access to specialized skills and cost optimization. ✔ Ensuring effective integration and onboarding of new talent is essential in a competitive global environment ✔ High turnover rates in offshoring strategies require close attention ✔ There is a noticeable shift towards outsourcing knowledge-based tasks, which can highlight the value of specialized and strategic skills over purely transnational activities ✔ The new opportunities brought by Advanced Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence. Thank you to AmCham France and all the participants for this wonderful session! #ExpertsWithImpact #Outsourcing #Offshoring #CFO

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Our experts Raphael Miolane, Senior Managing Director in Corporate Finance & Restructuring, and Michael Ovalles, Senior Managing Director in Business Transformation, Office of the CFO Solutions Practice, discussed the current trend of outsourcing & offshoring financial functions for global companies, during the AmCham France CFO Club virtual session. Here are the key insights of their discussion: ✔ The main factors for outsourcing are access to specialized skills and cost optimization. ✔ Ensuring effective integration and onboarding of new talent is essential in a competitive global environment ✔ High turnover rates in offshoring strategies require close attention ✔ There is a noticeable shift towards outsourcing knowledge-based tasks, which can highlight the value of specialized and strategic skills over purely transnational activities ✔ The new opportunities brought by Advanced Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence. Thank you to AmCham France and all the participants for this wonderful session! #ExpertsWithImpact #Outsourcing #Offshoring #CFO

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Need an up-to-date overview of the credit insurance market ? ✅ Just run through the 2024 edition of the annual masterpiece put together by the AU Group’s team… ✅ …and short after discuss it lively with our brokers in France or abroad to figure out the impacts on your credit management and adapt your credit insurance policies and trade receivables financing programs accordingly

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Are CFOs all the same? Is it possible to increase professional diversity and inclusion in the finance function   The corporate finance function is facing profound changes and new demands (business partner, value and customer orientation, digitalisation, sustainability, VUCA, ....). This implies a renewal of skills and perspectives on finance and therefore an increase in professional diversity within the finance function, understood as the variety of skills/competencies/experiences. But also the organisational capacity of the finance function to 'do something' with this diversity, i.e. to activate it to generate original decisions and practices through discussion and debate. However, it is clear that this inclusive capacity is in tension with the strong professional culture of the finance function. Financiers rely on skills and training specific to the function, which of course contribute to its professionalisation, but also to a certain internal standardisation. In a caricature, one could say that an accountant always looks a lot like another accountant. Furthermore, the finance function is an activity that lives under strong pressure from the "run" and from the constant search for efficiency in the context of a downward trend in staff numbers. This does not facilitate the expression of divergent and creative opinions. So how can we develop and activate professional diversity within the finance function? How can we avoid the standardisation of viewpoints within the function? I would be very interested to hear your ideas. To try and answer these two questions in a more formal way, a group of students and I have put together a simple questionnaire to assess professional diversity and inclusion within the finance function. We focus on a skills-and-experience approach to diversity, looking for competencies different from those classically found among the finance community but which will be necessary to address finance’s evolution. If you are a finance professional, would you be so kind as to complete it? It won't take more than a few minutes and would be a great help to us! If you could also forward it to other finance colleagues, that would be even better! #cfvg #escp https://lnkd.in/gFU9vbwv

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Why spend days hunting for the perfect freelancers when you can find them in just a few seconds?🚀 Malt's AI Search is revolutionizing how companies connect with top talent. Think of it as your personal staffing assistant, streamlining the hiring process from days to just seconds. AI Search is a game-changer for building Superteams integrating your internal experts with external talent to help you scale faster and smarter. Curious to see how it works? Click below to find out 👇 https://lnkd.in/e3mQdzSd

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[#Sustainability] It is a great honor to be recognized as one of the World’s Most Sustainable Companies of 2024 by TIME and Statista. 🙌   Eurazeo ranks #81 worldwide and among 500 companies doing best for the Earth. 🌍   ‘This ranking reflects the significant milestones achieved by Eurazeo in making trackable, public commitments to doing better for the planet, incorporating sustainability into our business model and our portfolio companies. The rigorous methodology used by Time and Statista took into account the successful progress of our SBTi decarbonization roadmap, as well as our high scores from CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) reaching an A rating.’ states Sophie Flak, Member of the Executive Board and Managing Partner - ESG and Digital at Eurazeo   Check out the ranking: https://lnkd.in/dAxy8_Ag   Christophe BAVIERE William Kadouch-Chassaing Olivier MILLET Audrey LAMBRY #sustainability #ESG #SBTi #CDP #decarbonization #impact #CDP

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🌍"Have you ever wondered about the origins of the word "entrepreneurship"? It traces back to the dynamic French verb 'entreprendre'—to 'undertake' or 'embark on.' This concept embodies the boldness of initiating, the courage of taking on challenges, and the sense of responsibility that comes with it. 🚀 It is exactly the essence of the the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Course at SKEMA Business School that is crafted not merely to grasp the fundamentals of launching a business, but also daring to dive into the unknown and make things happen. 🌟 During any course, my mission is to enrich high level of business teaching with top real-world experiences. This semester, during our Entrepreneurship course, we were again fortunate to host some incredible guests: Camille MORIN from Institut Fontaine, Loïc Delmazure 🐎 and Gaëtan FINET, cofounders of HORSAFY and Marketing Director of La vie est Belt Clément Gimeno . 🧠 The entrepreneurial spirit—visionary, daring, and innovative—was brought to life in the insightful masterclass by Camille MORIN, the brilliant mind behind the Communications at Institut Fontaine. This renowned organization, founded by the legendary French entrepreneur M.Gérard Mulliez , supports sustainable entrepreneurship and transmits the taste for entrepreneurship to new generations. Camille's generosity in sharing his own journey, alongside with the wisdom of M. Gérard Mulliez, convinces that access to knowledge through the exchange of experiences allows everyone to find inspiration to evolve and lead their own lives.   💡 "How do we begin by identifying customer pain points? What sets us apart with our value proposition? How do we create the right team and secure funding? These were just a few of the questions explored in our class, with invaluable insights shared by my former students Loïc Delmazure 🐎 and Gaëtan FINET , who, with my another student Mehdi Abbasi, cofounded an inspiring brand HORSAFY, aimed to protect horses while transporting. Wish you all the success, guys. 🌱 Exploring concepts like social enterprise and business responsibility, we engaged in enlightening discussions with Clément Gimeno , Marketing Director of La vie est Belt. His decision to leave a successful international career to pursue the sustainable project created by another visionary Hubert Motte supports the power of aligning personal values and business goals. 🚀 SKEMA Business School is not just a highly ranked business education. It is an incubator of a new generation of creative, visionary and entrepreneurial leaders. With SKEMA Ventures, driven by the dynamic and forward-thinking Franck Hanoh, it nurtures the spirit of entrepreneurship and cultivates innovation with impact. #SKEMAEntrepreneurship #EntrepreneurshipJourney #InnovationInspiration #SKEMAVentures #VisionaryLeadership #SustainableEntrepreneurship #RealWorldLearning #InspiringMinds #CreativeLeadership https://lnkd.in/eF-TSNnV.

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Y-France to hi 5-France? Stay tuned for more developments on the French eInvoicing Regulation with Pagero

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AI in Business, Finance and Education - my fellow Advisory Board Member Alfonso Carta said it all about the insightful discussions we had around AI at the EDHEC MBA Advisory Board. It was a pleasure to share the discussion with so many experts and to see the huge efforts EDHEC have made to integrate AI into all their teaching. It is transforming our world and we are all scrambling to keep up! #AItransformation #risk #finance #education

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🎙 I recently had the pleasure of speaking on Lumières, a French podcast dedicated to women shedding light on financial markets. Joined by Imane Kabbaj, Head of Sustainable Investment Specialists at Carmignac, we discussed a topic that doesn't always get the attention it deserves - the Blue Economy. 🌊 Encompassing all financial activities linked to oceans, from fishing to maritime conservation, the Blue Economy is an essential part of the climate transition. Oceans have huge potential for carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation, and the role of climate finance in protecting maritime ecosystems - whether through government funding, Blue bonds, or Blue Carbon projects - cannot be understated. 👉 Listen in to learn more about my personal journey into the carbon industry and at BeZero Carbon, as well as the challenges and opportunities of scaling the Blue Economy, including the need for better communication and collaboration between climate scientists and the financial community

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Leader's Challenge: Do you know Chronos & Kairos? This post delves into the intriguing concepts of Kairos and Chronos, offering a unique perspective on time. Olivier Meier's relevant essay, penned last June, emphasizes the significance of uncertainty in our lives. It stresses the importance for leaders to attune themselves to subtle cues, relying more on the barometer than on indicators. The essence lies in seizing the Kairos, the opportune moment for decisive action. Let's explore: - Prioritizing discernment over haste - Embracing intuition instead of rigid planning - Cultivating agility over sticking to routines Ultimately, the focus shifts towards understanding the environment rather than just following a set agenda. It's about being in tune with the moment and aligning accordingly. Thanks Olivier 😉 ! #uncertainty #intuition #momentum #decision #alignment

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