Fusion 2012 is all about innovation. A quick walk through the exhibit hall at the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville proves that over and over. There are vendors that can help organizations improve their processes in accounts payable, accounts receivable, procure-to-pay, information management, and data capture. But in the end, it’s up to the organizations themselves to come up with the...
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Posted by Karen Kroll On Tuesday morning, Fusion offered several great Thought Leader sessions to get things going. Charlie Kaplan with Brainware Inc. and Brian Rosenberg with RPI Consultants LLC provided highlights from a soon-to-be-released study report on the impact of automation, and especially intelligent data capture, on AP operations. The study was conducted by The Institute and...
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Monday was a day of hellos and at least one goodbye. As attendees gathered at the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville for Fusion 2012, greeting colleagues they hadn’t seen since last year’s conference in Orlando, The Institute of Financial Operations bid farewell to one very important person. Tom Bohn, the dynamic president and CEO who led the association for the past five years through mergers...
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Posted by Karen Kroll Fusion 2012’s Innovation Awards luncheon keynote speaker, Debra Searle, gave a humorous and inspiring account Monday of her journey rowing across the Atlantic from Tenerife, England, to Barbados in an international rowing race. Although Searle and her husband had started the journey together, he left after several weeks. As Searle noted, the two had done all...
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Posted by Karen Kroll It’s Monday morning in Nashville, and journalist Laura Ling provided a meaningful, inspiring kickoff to Fusion 2012 as the breakfast keynote speaker with a message about finding the good in every situation and reaching out to those who are different from you — important traits for people in today’s financial operations professions.  Ling, who spent several...
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