{"id":11684,"date":"2025-07-14T11:42:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icv-controlling.com\/blog\/reimagine-finance-performance-with-gen-ai-new-study-by-the-hackett-group\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T13:25:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:25:50","slug":"reimagine-finance-performance-with-gen-ai-new-study-by-the-hackett-group","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/icv-controlling.com\/en\/blog\/reimagine-finance-performance-with-gen-ai-new-study-by-the-hackett-group\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Reimagine Finance Performance With Gen AI&#8221; &#8211; new study by The Hackett Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"acf-block-67cc4c5105c60\" class=\"image-module bg-bg-default text-text-default dark:!bg-dark dark:!text-white  \">\n  <div class=\"max-w-screen-2xl spacing-px mx-auto\">\n    <div class=\"content-top max-w-3xl align-left \">\n          <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n      <div class=\"image-module__container mx-auto max-w-screen-fhd spacing-px \">\n      <div class=\"image-module__image\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1850\" height=\"1070\" src=\"https:\/\/icv-controlling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hackett-group.png\" class=\"z-0 mx-auto !object-contain !h-full !w-auto\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icv-controlling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hackett-group.png 1850w, https:\/\/icv-controlling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hackett-group-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/icv-controlling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hackett-group-1024x592.png 1024w, https:\/\/icv-controlling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hackett-group-768x444.png 768w, https:\/\/icv-controlling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hackett-group-1536x888.png 1536w, https:\/\/icv-controlling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hackett-group-1240x717.png 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1850px) 100vw, 1850px\" \/><\/div> \n          <\/div>\n  <\/section><section id=\"acf-block-67cc4c5105ee6\" class=\"text-module bg-bg-light text-text-default  dark:!bg-dark dark:!text-white\">\n  <div class=\"max-w-screen-2xl spacing-px mx-auto spacing-py\">\n          <div class=\"lg:mb-lg mb-md\">\n        <div class=\"content-top max-w-3xl align-left \">\n          <h2 class='headline-element align-left typo-h2 font-bold'>&#8220;Reimagine Finance Performance With Gen AI&#8221; &#8211; new study by The Hackett Group<\/h2>        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n          <div class=\"typo-body text-element max-w-3xl align-left \">\n        <p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The global consulting firm The Hackett Group recently published the study &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/go.poweredbyhackett.com\/25dwcfin2505nr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reimagine Finance Performance With Gen AI<\/a>&#8221; and shows how top finance organizations are using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to improve business performance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hackett <sup>Group\u00ae<\/sup>, defines Digital World <sup>Class\u00ae<\/sup> (DWC) for finance organizations as follows: DWC companies are in the TOP quartile globally for <em>business value<\/em> and <em>operational excellence<\/em>. DWC finance teams work with 45 percent lower process costs, deliver better strategic analyses 74 percent faster and generate 57 percent faster and more valid forecasts than the peer group. At the same time, they invest far less time in data collection and evaluation.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Georg Bach, Hackett Managing Director Central Europe at The Hackett Group, sees &#8220;(Gen)AI as a groundbreaking possibility and opportunity to decisively optimize and realign work processes, which is crucial for increasing the competitiveness of companies in the short to medium term in view of the current dramatic economic and geopolitical upheavals&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The study, which is based on around three hundred company surveys and comprehensive international benchmarks (around a third of which are European and German companies), identifies<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">six steps that are essential for the effective implementation of (Gen)AI strategies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Service design<\/strong>: Core processes must be set up in such a way that largely independent and self-running (agentic) workflows are possible.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Technology<\/strong>: Replacing outdated systems, using cloud tools, using (Gen)AI for better reporting, forecasting and analytics.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Human capital<\/strong>: training and developing employees for AI, creating a corporate climate conducive to innovation.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Analytics and information management<\/strong>: Ensure company-wide data governance and control. Data foundation must be AI-capable. <\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <strong>Service partnering<\/strong>: Outsource transactional tasks as far as possible, focus employee talent on strategy and involve AI experts.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Organization and governance<\/strong>: Reduce hierarchies, <span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">establish AI centers of excellence, implement cross-functional end-to-end service models.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Digital World <sup>Class\u00ae<\/sup> Finance organizations become valuable strategic partners in the company through the use of (Gen)AI,&#8221; explains Georg Bach. &#8220;This takes corporate planning and decision-making to a previously unattainable level.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click here to download the study: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.poweredbyhackett.com\/25dwcfin2505nr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reimagine Finance Performance With Gen AI <\/a> <\/p>\n      <\/div>\n          <div class=\"flex flex-wrap w-full gap-2 lg:gap-4 md:mt-lg mt-md \">\n              <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/section><section id=\"acf-block-68512ee2dece3\" class=\"image-module bg-bg-default text-text-default dark:!bg-dark dark:!text-white  \">\n  <div class=\"max-w-screen-2xl spacing-px mx-auto\">\n    <div class=\"content-top max-w-3xl align-left \">\n          <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n      <div class=\"image-module__container mx-auto max-w-screen-fhd \">\n      <div class=\"image-module__image aspect-square\"> <\/div> \n          <\/div>\n  <\/section>","protected":false},"template":"","blog-category":[],"blog-tags":[],"class_list":["post-11684","blog","type-blog","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icv-controlling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/11684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icv-controlling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icv-controlling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icv-controlling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/11684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icv-controlling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"blog-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icv-controlling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog-category?post=11684"},{"taxonomy":"blog-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icv-controlling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog-tags?post=11684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}