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AI-Powered Productivity: Finance

An analysis of AI's evolution in finance, highlighting executive adoption rates, projected benefits, and five recommendations for CFOs.

Benchmarking the AI advantage in finance

AI is helping CFOs cut through the chaos, build more resilient operations, deliver cost savings, and drive long-term growth.

Manage unpredictable risks

Explore three things CEOs need to know and three things they need to do now to apply generative AI to risk management.

ROI remedy: How hybrid by design can improve business returns on your tech investments

A cost center approach is costing IT. Learn how hybrid by design can improve ROI and tie IT to the business results discussed in boardrooms.

Why CFOs should care about advanced analytics and cognitive computing

The experiences of leading Finance teams provide insights into capitalizing on the next wave of analytics: cognitive computing.

The CEO’s Guide to generative AI: Finance

Explore three things CEOs need to know and three things they need to do now to apply generative AI to finance.

The sustainability imperative: The integral role of finance—quantified

Finance leaders play an essential role in supporting sustainability initiatives. See how we’ve quantified their potential impact.

Modernize purchase to pay

Advanced technologies—including automation, analytics, and AI—are boosting performance in purchase-to-pay processes.

AI's quantified impact on the finance function

Explore how more than 1,000 finance leaders are using AI to drive quantifiable business outcomes and optimize operational costs.

More Finance and Risk, CFO research and insights

6 power moves CFOs must make: Tackling hard truths in the generative AI era

Explore six power moves that CFOs must make that successfully use technology to propel their organizations forward.

The CEO’s guide to generative AI: Tech spend

Three things CEOs need to know and three things they need to do now to apply generative AI to technology spending.

Modernize record-to-report

This report shows how, with proper data management, the combination of automation and AI can modernize the record-to-report finance function.

Strategic Intelligence: CFOs as architects of action and champions of change - French

Amidst continuing uncertainty, CFOs must be both guardians of stability and agents of transformation.

2013 CFO study: Pushing the frontiers

CFO perspective from the C-suite Study

2008 CFO Study: Balancing Risk and Performance with an Integrated Finance Organization

In the globally interdependent marketplace, CFOs need their organizations to perform well and outperform their peers with consistently strong growth and big profits.

How can IBM help you?

Finance consulting

IBM financial consultants can help you leverage the right combination of people, process and technology to transform your finance function and discover new ways of working.

Procurement consulting and outsourcing services

Accelerate your procurement transformation from source to pay, using greater access to powerful data, insights and emerging technologies to empower your teams.

Creating a Virtual Enterprise by reimagining workflows

IBM transforms “business as usual” with AI and hybrid cloud technologies.