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Whitepaper on Digital Agenda: How to ask the right questions

• Developing a finance vision
• Creating new solutions: Design Thinking Workshops
• Defining tasks and dependencies using the Digital Agenda

Digital Finance - Digitization will increasingly change finance

• Where does digitization begin? 
• Digitization is the project to use digital technology to offer new products, to improve processes and to improve communication and networking 
• Digital Strategy, Digital Operations and Digital Capabilities

Whitepaper to process mining - unprecedented transparency opens up the potential for standardization and permanent optimization!

• Challenges 
• Identifying potentials 
• Measure the success 
• Best practice approach

Whitepaper to profitability management

• Objectives of profitability and cost management
• Basics and principles
• Instrument kit

Whitepaper Predictive Analytics - Take your forecast to the next level with predictive analytics!

• Classification and benefits of predictive analytics
• Requirements & limits
• Procedure for the introduction of predictive analytics
• About the cooperation of the 4C GROUP and the Controller Academy

Robust SCM - what do we learn from the crisis?

• Supply Chain Management - an elementary control task
• Safety stocks must be included in the sense of a holistically successful management of the value and supply chain

   

Thesis paper IT control in insurance companies

• Worries about the next generation in insurance IT
• Focal points in insurance IT
• Prioritizing the IT personnel strategy

Whitepaper on transparency in IT costs

• The three core challenges of an efficient IT controlling
• Reasonable targets: Establishment of an IT controlling
• Procedure for creating transparency and controllability of IT costs
• Transformation and change

Study and thesis paper CSR Reporting

• Motivation of the study
• Experience in the implementation of CSR reporting
• Summary: These are the issues that will need to be addressed

Whitepaper on PSD2 - What the IT of Third Party Providers needs to consider when providing PSD2 services

• What should be considered when mapping PSD2 services?
• What are the service-related IT requirements?
• How should framework IT requirements be defined?

Whitepaper on Transformation of Business Applications - Leading the Generation change of a critical Business Application to success

• The main challenges in companies
• Phase 1 - Transformation Impact & Strategy
• Phase 2 - Transformation Design
• Phase 3 - Transformation Execution

Whitepaper on Project Governance - successfully master the change marathon: How management and top management can still sleep peacefully with 4C Project Governance © in mission-critical projects

• The essential challenges and change processes in companies
• Solution: The initialization of 4C Project Governance ©
• 4C Consulting approach
• Benefits and Results of a Created 4C Project Governance ©: Overview of Key Value Contributions of 4C Project Governance ©

Minimalism in Reporting - The 4C Notation ©: How to use a company-specific presentation to make your reporting appealing, thus increasing the acceptance and effectiveness of your top management

• General rules of 4C notation ©
• Negative Rules and positive rules of Notation
• Guidelines for column and bar diagrams

IFRS 16 - More than just balance sheet effects

The application of IFRS 16 has far-reaching accounting, organizational, procedural and technical implications. We provide an overview of:

• Challenges
• Solutions
• Standardized process model to IFRS 16

Digitization and many innovative tools - and we fight with Excel and user exits! A new tool must come! You can see the computer revolution everywhere just not in the productivity statistics

• What's the problem?
• 4C Solutions-Navigator - take the right tool in your hand!  

Whitepaper Target Operating Model - Preparation for CFO 4.0: Without a clear target image of the future finance organization, the CFO area will become the company's dinosaur!

• How can the new available data be integrated into the reporting?
• What does reporting and control look like under industry 4.0 sign?
• What effect will the relocation of CRM systems to the cloud have on the CFO? 
• Is the old paradigm that every number in the company must come from the CFO area losing its validity?
• Can one trust the promises of the manufacturers who once again promise integration?
• When can reporting and planning finally become part of general corporate management and not a controlling event?

Whitepaper electronic invoicing - paper invoices are a thing of the past: The ZUGFeRD format - an industry initiative

• e-Invoice - everyone creates their own standard
• The ZUGFeRD* format - an industry initiative

Whitepaper to process automation using the example purchase to pay - What happens to the accounts payable accountant?

The advancing digitalization promotes a process automation of the Purchase-2-Pay process and turns the buyer into an accountant - or vice versa!

• Why process automation at all?
• The choice of a suitable change management approach is of utmost importance for the success of the project.  

Integrated Reporting: Fashion trend or future of corporate reporting?

• Why a paradigm shift in reporting is necessary
• Integrated Reporting at a glance
• Implementation of integrated reporting in practice
• Benefits of Integrated Reporting 

Whitepaper to key figure control: Signal for corporate management with a course towards strategic and operational goals

• Challenges of key figure control
• Potential of key figure control: on the way to the key figure system
• solution approach 

Human Capital Reporting - Overview

Risk management: Ensuring long-term economic health of your company by actively managing opportunities and risks

• Challenges in managing risks
• 4C model for integrated management of operational risks
• Benefits and results: Advantages of integrated risk management

Whitepaper for Reporting Factory - Reporting and digitization

• Reporting 4.0 - digital and efficient
• Challenges of the implementation
• Best Practice - Reporting Factory in its purest form

4C GROUP AG | E-Booklet Open insurance: How insurance companies use digital ecosystems

• Insurance and digital ecosystems
• How your service offering becomes fit for digital ecosystems
• What you should keep in mind during implementation
• How the 4C GROUP supports you in the implementation

4C GROUP AG | E-Booklet Corporate Liability in Germany

• Initial situation & objective
• Review & basis
• Impact on companies
• Sanction mitigating measures
• 4C benefits

4C GROUP AG | E-Booklet Diversity, a real lever for top performance in a volatile world!

• Sustainability, CSR, Diversity - What is it all about?
• Can diversity have a business case?
• How can diversity be classified? - A basic classification in HR work
• A framework for leveraging the opportunities of diversity
• The roadmap

4C GROUP AG | E-Booklet Compliance Efficiency

• Introduction and Overview
• „Compliance Efficiency"
• Regulatory Technology

4C GROUP AG | E-Booklet agile transformation

• Why agile? - benefits
• Innovation culture
• Cross-functional structure
• Project setup
• Use cases

4C GROUP AG | E-Booklet remote team collaboration

• Enabling the team to collaborate remotely
• Creating a sustainable virtual work environment
• Usage of tools for different use cases

4C GROUP AG | E-Booklet Pandemic checkup for IT organizations

• Introduction
• Challenges
• Approach for more resilient IT organizations

• Proposed project planning

4C GROUP AG | E-Booklet Covid-19: Securing promotional loans successfully

• Development stages of crisis management 
• 4 core components of emergency aid
• Application for promotional loans/emergency aid
• Value creating application scenarios
• Continuation scenarios

4C GROUP AG | E-Booklet Liquidity management and securing liquidity

• Course of the crisis
• Leverage to initiate liquidity-securing measures
• Focus: Liquidity management

4C GROUP AG | E-Booklet Covid-19: Applying for state financial aid and loans

• Course of the crisis
• 4 core components of emergency financial aid
• Emergency financial aid in federal states
• KfW Entrepreneur Loan
• Liquidity Management

4C GROUP AG | E-Booklet Covid-19: Revitalization of the business model

• The Post-Covid-19 business model
• 4C Offer: Business model simulation/development

4C GROUP AG | E-Booklet Covid-19 Crisis management, securing liquidity and revitalisation of the business model

• Course of the crisis
• Leverage to initiate liquidity-securing measures
• Continuation scenarios
• Focus: Liquidity management
• Post-Covid-19 business model

4C GROUP AG | E-booklet Workforce Management & Analytics

• Introduction to Workforce Management & Analytics
• Workforce Management activities
• Trends and benefits of Workforce Management & Analytics
• Organizational positioning
• Specific project examples

4C GROUP AG | E-booklet ISO 30414: Our certification services

• Opportunities of Human Capital Reporting ISO 30414 at a glance
• Contents of Human Capital Reporting ISO 30414 
• Requirements and successful implementation of Human Capital Reporting ISO 30414
• The most important steps: Your benefits and our certification services 

4C GROUP AG | E-Booklet International guideline for human capital reporting ISO 30414

• Importance of Human Capital for Organizations
• Core content and application of the guideline
• Benefits and implications

Excerpt from "The Krankenhaus MVZ" - Future of outpatient Care

• Framework conditions
• Structure and Organization
• Interfaces
• Operational management 

4C GROUP AG | A Guide to ESEF / European Single Electronic Format

• FAQs - who is affected, what is to be done, when must one react?
• Effects of ESEF regulation on processes and systems
• Overview of the system providers on the market
• Recommendations and solutions of the 4C GROUP
• Demonstration tagging and XBRL generation using an exemplary solution

4C GROUP AG | Our understanding of change management - using proven approaches - managing change

• Change Management at 4C
• Transporting the right messages
• Keeping employee enthusiasm high in the long term

4C GROUP AG | Schönhofer Sales & Engineering (SSE) GmbH – RegTech

• Presentation of cooperation between 4C GROUP AG and Schönhofer Sales & Engineering
• Core Technologies for the Next Generation of Regulatory Management: Data Fusion, Real Time Analytics, Forensics/ Visualization, Automation
• Selected examples in the anti-financial crime environment for application and implementation

IT control in insurance companies: Control wins

The realignment of the IT organization in insurance companies for a tailor-made, modern and sustainable IT.

4C GROUP AG | PSD2 - Digital Transformation

• Opportunities of the PSD2 at a glance
• Requirements of the PSD2
• The regulatory challenge: What non-banks need to consider
• Approval package of the 4C GROUP

4C GROUP AG | E-Booklet Enabling Digital Transformation

• Why is Digital Transformation important?
• How can Digital Transformation be initiated?
• How can 4C help you with Digital Transformation?

4C GROUP AG | E-booklet Robotic Process Automation

• Understanding Robotic Process Automation
• Application areas and functions
• Roadmap
• Market overview RPA solutions

4C GROUP AG | E-Booklet IT controlling in insurance companies - with SAP S/4 HANA

• The IT service pyramid as a central control object
• Planning and control aspects in IT controlling
• [...] and what about SAP Hana?
• Summary

4C GROUP AG | Digital Strategy

• Definition of customized digitization strategies
• Customer needs at the center of the digitization strategy
• Market and organization view
• Starting points for successful implementation

4C GROUP AG | E-Booklet Efficiency increase in regulatory reporting processes

• Reduce effort, increase efficiency, promote good decisions
• 3-step process: stocktaking, analysis of reports, optimization of processes
• Benefits for employees in the creation process and benefits for Chief Risk Officer / Boards

4C GROUP AG | SAP S/4HANA Transition Management - The way to SAP S/4HANA: only through excellent transition management you reach your goals!

• Expectations of the "new" tool
• The view of SAP customers and their needs
• The Business Transformation
• S4/HANA Roadmap
• procedure model

4C GROUP AG | Conflict of interest management at investment services companies

• Advanced stages of conflict of interest management
• regulatory framework
• Conflict of Interest Policy
• Types of conflicts of interest
• Measures / tools to manage conflicts of interest

4C GROUP AG | E-Booklet Implementation or change of business applications

• Initial situation and benefits for the customer
• transformation drivers
• 4 steps to successful transformation
• transformation strategy

4C Study 2021/22: "Attracting and retaining IT talent"

The following key questions are answered in the study:

• What criteria are important for attracting IT talent?
• Why do IT talents choose non-IT companies? Why not?
• What do IT talents expect from the recruitment and interview process?
• Where and how are IT talents best approached?

4C Study 2022: "Measuring and communicating IT business value" (preview)

The following key questions are answered in the study:

• What is IT Business Value?
• How can IT Business Value be measured?
• What does IT business value show?
• How high is the share of IT in the company's success?

4C Study 2022: "Implementation of cybersecurity strategies in the energy sector"

Experts from Germany's largest power grid operators were surveyed on the following key topics:

• Number and intensity of cyber attacks
• Responsibilities
• Control mechanisms
• Information procurement
• Awareness of top management
• Supply chain risks
• Future technologies and concepts

4C Study 2022/2023: "Leadership styles of successful CIOs" - Preview

4C Study 2023: "Effective Governance of IT/OT Convergence" - Preview

4C Study 2023: "Contribution and Success Factors of Sustainable IT" - Preview

Pay-per-use Leasing

• The increasing relevance of flexible options for service billing
• Individual and customizable concepts of a pay-per-use solution
• The targeted and individual implementation of the pay-per-use solution

MDK Management / Management of the Medical Service of Health Insurance Companies: From primary revenue assurance to quality improvement through smart procedures and optimized reports for the right view of the core factors.

• Challenge and approach
• The most important value contributions of structured MDK management
• Multidimensional reporting
• MDK Risk and fields of action 
• Measure Control

Hospital Management - From the past to the future: with the right compass, the hospital can be optimally controlled

• Challenges for hospitals
• Focus on integration and efficiency improvement

What you can’t MEASURE, you can’t manage - The performance management method 4C MEASURE

• Topics of the 4C MEASURE method
• Essential features of the software solution
• Realization plan - implementation in five steps
• Advantages for your controlling

9 Theses for digitiziation after Covid-19

• Covid-19 as an enforcement accelerator - 9 theses for digitization according to Corona
• Opinions of digitization experts about the time after Corona

10 Theses for IT after Covid-19

• Covid-19 as driver for recognition and innovation - 10 theses for IT after Corona
• Opinions of IT experts about the time after Corona

Process Mining in Hospital Management - Proof of Value provides process transparency and potentials

• Reasons for the backlog of changes in clinics
• Process Mining: uncovering process potentials and creating objectivity
• Celonis Process Mining as a field-tested solution
• 4C GROUP consulting approach: Proof of value for a comprehensible basis for decision-making

Initiative to reduce the workload of hospital staff through specially tailored process automation

In light of the current, unprecedented challenges caused by Covid-19, the 4C GROUP has teamed up with UI Path, the world's leading provider of process automation software, to quickly and unbureaucratically launch a healthcare relief initiative. The goal of this initiative is to quickly and noticeably relieve the burden on hospital staff through specially tailored process automation.

10 Theses for HR after Covid-19

• Covid-19 as evolutionary accelerator - 10 theses for HR according to Corona
• Opinions of HR experts about the time after Corona

10 Theses for Finance after Covid-19

• Covid-19 as an evolutionary accelerator -10 Theses for Finance according to Corona
• Opinions of finance experts about the time after Corona

Finance and liquiditiy planning: Excel template

Finance and liquidity planning: Description of the Excel template

• Fundamentals of financial and liquidity planning
• Requirements in accounting
• Structure of the file and instructions for filling

Find clarity when you need it most – 4C ready to use HR reports

• Interactive visualizations based on Microsoft Power BI or tableau bring your HR data to life
• Get answers to about 90 percent of all HR-relevant questions
• Valuable insights from your data within minutes through intuitive reports
• Rapid provision on the basis of 4C ready to use HR reports within approx. 2 weeks
• No software implementation or elaborate conception for HR reporting necessary

Competitive advantages and transparency through effective IT controlling - A repositioning of IT controlling beyond budget control is overdue

• Increasing IT requirements
• IT controlling and IT management: value creation phases
• Solution und Consulting approach of the 4C GROUP 
• Benefits of performance-oriented IT controlling

CSR Reporting - legal duty and marketing dumb or meaningful control?

Since 2014, certain companies have been obliged to publish non-financial information on corporate social responsibility. We provide an overview of CSR reporting:

1. Challenges in CSR Reporting 
2. Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
3. Benefit of CSR Reporting

Innovation Management - Laying the foundation for tomorrow's business: Not the generation of ideas, but their structured implementation to market maturity differentiates the champions from the competition

• Innovation as one of the essential success factors of a company
• Effective control and efficient organization
• 4C Consulting approach and benefits and results

Top management reporting: Focusing corporate management on real key performance indicators - Powerful control concepts are the prerequisite for effective management cockpits

• Need for effective and transparent control information as a starting point for the introduction of a Management Cockpit
• 4C approach to developing an effective management cockpit
• Advantages and Benefits of a Management Cockpit

Cost and activity accounting indispensable in the age of digitisation? Increase the benefit!

• Challenges: are the old ones - only in higher cycles and greater complexity
• Cost and activity accounting is more than a BAB or a disregarded cost center evaluation.
• 4C Healthcheck for a sound analysis of the KLR in your company

Cost management - more than just cost reduction: Advantages of continuous potential control

• Cost management - a central topic of corporate management
• Solution: Control model aligned with the entire value chain
• 4C consulting approach: holistic consideration of all relevant components of cost management
• Results and benefits

Creating the foundation for effective performance management: The path from controlling to corporate management

• Initial situation and basis for successful performance management
• 4C approach: creation of an instrument matrix 
• Benefits and results: Support for the overarching management of the company and its individual divisions

Effective planning concepts are consistent with the business model

• Efficient and coherent planning processes
• Solution: the 4C Planning Map
• 4C consulting approach: 4C planning assessment method
• Benefits/ Results and Tools

Successfully manage service providers: Success Factors for effective Vendor Management

• Challenges: Managing external service providers or shared service centers
• Factors for result-oriented and successful vendor management 
• Solution: Targeted design and consistent performance of the central tasks of vendor management

Liquidity management in the hospital - a best practice approach

Your liquidity status. Which resources can you access?

Group controlling

Knowing what's going on, enables you to control better

SAP S/4HANA Discovery Workshops

Evaluate the potential of SAP S/4HANA finance for your company - individual, compact and fast!

Restructuring in Healthcare

How do you find out what is really relevant for your house and how do you shape change?

Anti money laundering (AML) - Implementing the money laundering act successfully

• 4C fields of support
• Specialist focus in the area of anti-financial crime
• Methodical expertise

Take your planning to a new level! Discover the possibilities of our integrated, individually adaptable planning models

• Planning as an elementary component for a successful company
• Comprehensive and tailor-made planning solutions from the 4C GROUP
• Mapping of the cause-and-effect relationships in the planning model with drivers

10 Theses for owner-managed companies after Covid-19

• Covid-19 as evolutionary accelerator - 10 theses for owner-managed companies after Covid-19
• Expert opinions about the time after the Coronavirus

Thesis paper IT sourcing analysis

• The balancing act between new IT requirements and limited resources
• Use cases of an IT sourcing analysis
• Determining the right sourcing mix

Ensure IT competitiveness with a customized IT personnel strategy!

• Innovation as a new core requirement
• IT personnel strategy as a motor for cultural change
• IT personnel strategy based on the strategic service portfolio
• Recommendation for action

Successful implementation of corporate goals through active management of the project portfolio: Focusing scarce resources on business-critical projects

• Challenges in project portfolio management
• Solution: Intelligent project portfolio management
• Methodical approach and 4C consulting approach
• Benefits and results of a consistent application of project portfolio management

Competitive advantages through effective IT control - The 4C maturity model for evaluating the performance of IT control

• Challenges for the control of a modern IT area
• Determining the Maturity Level of IT Control: Establishing the Maturity Level Assessment for the IT Control Modules
• Solution and 4C consulting approach
• Benefits and results of the maturity model/ maturity assessment
• Recommendations for action and roadmap to the maturity level model 

Effective IT risk management creates real value in information technology: IT risk management is much more than just compliance

• Risks in IT and the associated risks in the business processes of companies
• Goals of IT risk management
• Basis for effective IT risk management
• 4C Consulting approach + benefits and results: Enabling effective and efficient risk management 

Effective group controlling ensures efficiency gains in group controlling: Success factors for the implementation of a successful group controlling

• Why do we need effective group controlling?
• Solutions and 4C Method for effective group controlling
• Benefits and results

Reporting requires a structured closing process: Period ending - the inconspicuous process that depends a lot

• Significance of the closing process for corporate management
• best practice
• Approach 4C GROUP

Checklist - framework parameters for the perfect consolidation tool

Get a summary of typical criteria for selecting a consolidation system in our checklist.

Self-Check to HCM Readiness - Checklist

Download the HCM Readiness Self-Check now!

Checklist for the successful implementation of remote workshops

Get an overview of the basic rules for remote workshops in our checklist.

Case study on agile product development at a financial services provider - with structured creativity to innovative services

The Lean Service Creation approach to developing digital product ideas for a Pure Digital Player in the financial services industry.

Case Study on Lean Planning at a leading global provider of special medical products - lean planning is only useful under certain conditions

Successful implementation of a worldwide lean planning

Case study of a pharmaceutical company - improve planning without overstraining the workforce

Implementation of a concept for planning and control processes to increase planning quality and safety

Case study on planning in a technology company - Planning must be? Then please helpful and fast

Development of a planning process and standardized project procedure in the area of application systems at a technology company

Case study for the development of a uniform control concept for a spectacle manufacturer - Creating flexibility and an increase in the quality of planning and control

Development of a uniform, group-wide and information-based control concept

Case study on sales planning in an IT service and consulting company group - we get your numbers rolling

Analysis, implementation and support in setting up rolling sales planning

Case study on the liquidity bottleneck of an hospital - financial management in times of crisis

Restructuring and interim management - Finance in hospitals

Case Study - on the way to digital transformation with innovative services for the digital further development of the existing business model

Insight into the digitalization in a German retail bank: Development & implementation of a personal finance management application as well as business model definition & anchoring