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Webinar: Finance transformation: Why It Should Pay for Itself in Months—and Usually Doesn’t 

03-22-2026 03:04 PM

Finance transformation should drive material improvements to costs, profits, cash flows, and ESG outcomes—both in the short term and long term. Most don’t. Instead, they deliver new tools, more complexity, and marginal gains.
The reason is simple: transformation focuses on finance in isolation. Without truly integrated planning, finance cannot control the economics of the business—and the transformation never pays for itself.

In this webinar, CFOs will learn:

  • What truly integrated planning looks like—and why most approaches fail
  • The maturity model that defines integrated planning, which explicitly includes ESG
  • How organizations can dynamically optimize costs, profits, and cash—not just budgets
  • The process and technology shifts that make transformation self-funding
  • A pragmatic roadmap to finance transformation that delivers results in months, not years

 

Field of Study: Finance Transformation

Speaker:

Dean Sorensen

Founder, IBP Collaborative

Dean Sorensen is the founder of the IBP Collaborative, a consultancy that helps manufacturing and supply chain driven organizations to transform and integrate their planning and performance management (P&PM) processes to achieve dynamic cost, profit and value optimization. Mr. Sorensen has previously worked at A.T. Kearney, Accenture and KPMG. He holds a BBA from York University [in Toronto], is a Chartered Accountant [in Canada] and is also certified in production and inventory management [CPIM] by APICS.

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