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Our Story: Keep it simple

Less is more, keep it simple When Lilian graduated from both her undergraduate and master’s degree programs, she was always one of the lucky ones who manage to find employment in times where the country is undergoing a financial crisis. Entering the job market during lean times helped honed her strong work ethic and resiliency […]

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Big budgets do not guarantee a successful business system implementation.

It seems the higher the budget, the greater the chances are for a business system implementation to fail.   Why is this the case? Years of personal experience (and other anecdotal stories from trusted and respected business associates) passively observing big names consultants and implementation experts leading and directing ‘crucial’ business system implementation change towards […]

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Our Story: Finance Focus

Viewing the business through finance-tinted lenses After more than 20 years of working in the corporate world (many of which were financial analysis roles in non-financial organizations i.e. technical operations, business operations, product, engineering), Lilian’s true passion is still Finance. She firmly believes that a strong Finance team should not only care about high-level budgets […]

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Discovering a ‘gold-mine’ of cost savings

When I joined a technology company that was trying to scale the business to the next level, I was the first finance analyst hired to work on strategic initiatives. I quickly realized that this was a company that had great leadership, great technology but very rudimentary financial operations functions. Due to the founder’s resource management […]

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Here’s What You Need to Know to Become a COVIDpreneur

Article by: Cameron Ward @ bizwealthbuilder.com If you’re thinking of starting a business, it might surprise you to learn that now’s a great time to dive into entrepreneurship. Although it’s unfortunate that many businesses haven’t made it through the pandemic, as things open back up, there is room in the market for new enterprises. As […]

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