We sit down with Dane Arbuckle from Richardson International to explore how a 160-year-old agribusiness company successfully transformed their finance operations through strategic OneStream implementation. This compelling conversation reveals the critical lessons learned from scaling digital transformation across complex business models.
Key Discussion Points:
- Building dedicated digital transformation teams: Why Richardson's Digital Ambition Group became the key to OneStream success
- From Excel chaos to one-click consolidation: How finance teams eliminated the "smoosh" of manual spreadsheet linking
- The power of future-proofing: Learning from phase one mistakes to build scalable, long-term solutions
- Accordion Rolling Forecast implementation: Real-time collaborative planning across diverse business units (grain, processing, retail)
- User adoption strategies: How teams evolved from Excel dependency to leveraging OneStream's cube views and dashboards
- Advanced functionality roadmap: Narrative reporting, Genesis no-code solutions, and machine learning applications
- Cultural transformation: Teaching 160-year-old processes to embrace automated consolidation and real-time reporting
Dane shares candid insights about Richardson's journey from fragmented Excel-based reporting to unified OneStream consolidation, planning, and forecasting. This episode offers valuable lessons for finance leaders managing complex, multi-entity organizations seeking to scale their digital transformation efforts.
