Webinar - Consulting Firm Middle Office Operations: Finding Shoes for the Cobbler's Children

Consulting firms are innovating, merging and growing at an amazing pace, adapting to an onslaught of external factors affecting the operations and financial success of their clients. That growth, however, may be taxing "homegrown" middle office solutions that, due to front- and back-office technology advances, are becoming increasingly inefficient…and potentially costly.

And yet, it's common for even the best consulting leaders to focus so much effort on doing amazing work for clients, that they overlook those same innovations and ideas as solutions to their own challenges – the proverbial Cobbler's Children Syndrome. They live with a mixture of disconnected systems and their side effects: reduced utilization, revenue leakage, and the inability to get an accurate view of current actuals against baseline at all levels. The ultimate impacts? Decision bottlenecks and lower profits.

Join us for a discussion on the causes of this neglect, as well as the potential benefits of a fully-enabled middle office.

Consulting Magazine and Kimble Apps have assembled some of the industry's leading executives and professionals to examine this issue in a roundtable format moderated by Consulting's Michael Webb. The panelists include:

• Bruce Ballengee, CEO, Pariveda Solutions
• Melissa Drew, Associate Partner, IBM
• Marci Marra, Partner, SIA Partners
• Chris Mitchell – VP Global Accounts, Kimble Apps
• Sharon Piech, Global Director, Deloitte

Join us for a discussion on the causes of this neglect, as well as the potential benefits of a fully-enabled middle office. Click here for more information.

Key Topics Addressed

• What forces have led to the stressing/ineffectiveness of current middle office processes?
• Data challenges that expose middle office weakness.
• Have homegrown middle office programs outlived their value?
• What are the consequences of ignoring outdated or mismatched middle office processes?
• Internal evaluation and measurement of current middle office operations.
• What solutions or alternatives are there for up-armoring or rebuilding homegrown systems
• What best practices are being seen?
• Is the issue inevitable? Ongoing?

What will you learn?

You will come away from this webinar with a clearer understanding of the pressures being exerted on the middle office as it relates to firm operations and the possible consequences of missing the signs or ignoring clues that can siphon profits, undermine efficiencies in value and service your firm provides.

Sponsored by Kimble Apps

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