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Today’s increasingly competitive business landscape requires organisations to prioritise risk management and compliance to survive and thrive. Without a comprehensive approach to risk [...]

Any change or assurance initiative benefits from knowing the current baseline of the processes, controls and activities that deliver an outcome; what are the requirements, what needs to be [...]

Introduction This is the first in a number of articles that will explore what is meant by Transformation, starting with Business Processes. We will define what is a process, how to capture the [...]

Capturing and improving the “Lead2Cash” Journey In the previous paper, it was indicated that the Lead2Cash journey can vary, depending on the type of business. Let us assume for a moment that a [...]

For anyone who runs a business, whether a limited company (Ltd), sole trader, Limited Liability Company (LLC), Partnership or Charity, the first rule of business is always to stay in business. [...]

The future belongs to the Digital Twin of an Organisation. Wouldn’t it be extraordinary to simulate plans or build what-if scenarios for services, products, facilities, people and processes [...]

Following a series of interactive roundtables on the subject, it is increasingly clear that the Digital Twin of an Organisation (DTO) can provide real value to the Financial Services industry. [...]

To learn about the novastone platform. Deepen engagement with your customers over instant messaging platforms, increasing relevance while maintaining full control, staying compliant and saving on [...]

Our Managing Partner, Jeremy James, hosted an  interactive panel discussion on how organisations can build resilience against the next unknown crisis. This featured our industry experts [...]

Covid-19 challenged many aspects of our lives at various levels of society globally. The pandemic has caused, and is continuing to cause, a huge impact on the lives of people, their families, [...]

Businesses exist to provide a product or service to their market. To continue to prosper in the long term, businesses must grow and make a profit. The environment businesses operate in is often [...]

How often can the cause of a troubled project which has fundamental deficiencies or is experiencing severe implementation difficulties be directly linked with a poorly drafted or, in some cases, [...]

Ownet’s Managing Partner, Jeremy James on how the SME developed its unique approach to consultancy. Why did you set up your business? Ownet focuses on Change and Transformation, and we launched [...]

Modern IT is fast-paced, and more businesses than ever are becoming increasingly reliant on technology and the teams that support them. I’ve seen and led a variety of IT functions and, in my [...]

Overview Business Process Management (‘BPM’) can be combined with various aspects of enterprise-wide operating systems to produce an integrated view of the relationship between people, processes [...]

This paper discusses some of the key aspects of Business Process Management (BPM) in the context of its application and goals; there are many reasons why an organisation may wish to map [...]

Ownet is often contacted by clients experiencing problems in implementing projects. Such problems are diverse, but can generally be grouped into three areas, the specified functionality does not [...]

A year ago, Simon Quarmby of Ownet Consulting wrote a paper entitled; GDPR – Tick Tock, Tick Tock – GDPR – Tick Tock, Tick Tock At the time he was alerting Ownet Consulting [...]

With a variety of investment products and solutions available to meet a client’s investment objectives, attitude to investment risk becomes a central plank in the advice process to help ensure [...]

In this paper we discuss the changing work patterns we have seen emerge over recent years, and examine how these may affect work patterns in the future. Importantly, it will be necessary for [...]

The scheduled departure of the UK from the European Union is 11pm UK time on 29 March 2019, with an anticipated two-year transition period post March 2019 to help smooth the path to the final [...]

  The International Accounting Standard Board’s new leasing standard – IFRS 16, Leases – will require companies to bring most leases on-balance sheet from 1 January 2019, the standard’s [...]

The long awaited IFRS 17 on Insurance Contracts was issued by IASB on May 18th, 2017. This is the first comprehensive IFRS standard on Insurance Contracts to help investors and users of [...]

With the current trend of low interest rates producing an increase in transfer values being offered by Final Salary Occupational Pension schemes this has created a potential opportunity for [...]

With less than a year to go is your understanding and activity on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) up to speed? All organisations that collect, store and process personal data must [...]

The Ownet paper: An Introduction to Robotic Process Automation (RPA), identifies the key benefits of RPA:  saving time, saving money, making money, and the future of RPA, including the wider [...]

In Ownet’s paper, The Progressive Finance Function we touched on the opportunity of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to an organisation in saving time, saving money and making money through the [...]

Improving efficiency and reducing waste are more important than ever in today’s economic climate. The pace of change has accelerated in recent years and this has meant companies have been [...]

As one of our previous papers, the Progressive Finance function, explains, it is imperative to be able to, ‘do the basics right and efficiently all of the time to enable a focus on driving the [...]

Since Ownet launched Alzheimer’s Society has been our chosen charity. Each year the Ownet Owners hold fundraising events and post news and pictures, of our activities and endeavours, here. [...]

With a plethora of Corporate Performance Management (CPM) tools in the marketplace offering and promoting competitive functionalities and extensive service lines, anyone looking to implement a [...]

On the 6th October 2016 we held our client launch, of Ownet, at Dr. Johnson’s house, the birth place of the first English dictionary. The event celebrated the official launch of our new [...]

Today’s business environment is volatile, disruptive, changing and complex… and you could pick many other similar adjectives to describe the direction of the global business environment. This [...]