Imagine you have 3 minutes to explain to a six year old what FP&A is and what place it takes in a business ecosystem. Tough, isn’t it? What are things that a six year old would understand? For example, animals, right?
Irina Steenbeek
Irina Steenbeek is a data management practitioner and coach with more than 11 years of experience. She assists executive data management (DM) professionals in assessing data management's maturity and performance, implementing or optimizing data management frameworks, and developing a data lineage business case. For that, I offer a ready-for-use step-by-step methodology.
Author of " Data Lineage from Business Perspective," "The Orange Model of Data Management," "The Data Management Toolkit," and "The Data Management Cookbook," various white papers and a series of blogs on the topics of data management.
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Author's Articles
In the article, I would like to give you a short overview of the main opinions on this subject proposed by 43 leaders of Finance of global companies that have been discussed during the latest Amsterdam FP&A Board meeting.
Even if last six years I have been specialized in Data management, I still follow (thanks to FP&A club) developments in FP&A area. While reading some publications on FP&A trends I realized the strong connection between FP&A and Data management topics.
Nowadays a lot of concerns in business environment are focused around data. There are several drivers for that, such as regulations (e.g. GDPR), the growing amount of data, new technologies in data processing and analysis etc.