CFO As Navigator – Becoming the 'Perfect' CFO

CFOs will continue to be under relentless pressure to raise their game—at least, this is the message many are receiving from their colleagues (CXOs) and board members, whose new mantra seems to be: "Take us further and faster."

All you have to do is look at any of a large number of recent surveys on CEO/CXO expectations to see that today's CFOs are expected to go beyond the traditional CFO role, including into areas such as enterprise risk and investor relationships. In fact, four key directives emerge from this data:

Corporate Renaissance Group Partners with Mastermind Solutions

Partnership Will Deliver Complementary Services to Mid-market Business Clients

Earlier this week, Corporate Renaissance Group (CRGroup), a leading provider of business software and performance management solutions, and Mastermind Solutions, a Toronto based management consulting organization that focuses on business growth through strategy, marketing, finance and organizational design, announced a strategic alliance to bring a full suite of complementary services to the mid-market business client.

Does Your Dynamics GP Chart of Accounts Need a Little Love?

We are just going to say what Dynamics GP users everywhere are thinking...sometimes our Chart of Accounts aren’t as loveable as they used to be. No one can predict exactly where and when the honeymoon will end but somehow over time, users tend to outgrow their current account structure and things just aren’t as rosy as they could be.

But the good news is that all is not lost. Fall head over heels for your GP Chart of Accounts once again!

Top 10 Reasons to Visit CRGroup at Convergence 2014

Corporate Renaissance Group is headed to Convergence 2014 in Atlanta and we’d like you to join us there! Booth #1641

Convergence is the premier event for the Microsoft Dynamics community - where opportunity and innovation meet to deliver real business value.

Don’t miss your chance to network with vendors and partners, gain valuable knowledge, and get up to speed on the latest technology and trends surrounding Dynamics technology; including the latest products and solutions offered by Corporate Renaissance Group.

• emPerform: award-winning performance management software to enhance Dynamics GP/AX HR
• Trend Miner: ground-breaking trend analysis for Dynamics CRM
• Easy to use add-ons for Dynamics GP: Changer, Re-Formatter, AA Tools, and more!
• PM-Studio: world-class project management built on SharePoint
• New! PA Time & Expense Manager: project-based time & expense approval for Dynamics GP

Want to book a demo in advance? Contact sales@crgroup.com
Questions? Contact us 1.800.576.6215

Top 10 Reasons to Visit CRGroup at Convergence:

Read more here: http://www.crgroup.com/Documents/CRGroup_10reasons.pdf

CIOs Need to be the Guiding Light

Looking back one can think of three inflection points that intertwined technology and business: the advent of mainframes in the 1970s; the PC revolution followed by the introduction of powerful servers; the Y2K threat, which led to rethinking of IT infrastructure and introduction of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems followed by open source and the outsourcing/off-shoring revolution of the 21st century. 

CRGroup's Top Ten Dynamics GP Tips & Tricks of 2013

The CRGroup Blog covers topics including ERP, CPM, document management, and much more.

Here are ten of our top posts related to Microsoft Dynamics GP from 2013:

Do you Really Need to Embrace Analytics?

If you have not witnessed the deluge of big data and business analytics media coverage to date, then welcome back from the coma you were apparently in for the last couple of years. For the rest of you, perhaps you have the same nagging question that I have: Are big data and business analytics such a big deal that if our organization is late to the party in deploying them, we will never catch up to our competitors?

I go back and forth on wondering if applying analytics now is an urgent imperative for an organization to survive or if it is a “nice to have” relative to more critical “must have” capabilities that an organization should ideally possess.