Accelerating Digital Finance Transformation

KONE (Australia & New Zealand)

As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE's mission is to improve the flow of urban life. Significant changes in the finance and construction industry over the last few years led to the development of the team's skill competencies while accelerating digital transformation.

As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE's mission is to improve the flow of urban life. Significant changes in the finance and construction industry in the last few years guided KONE in developing the finance team's skill competencies while accelerating digital transformation.

Mission-critical priority

Ensuring the finance function and the business work together to call out risks and opportunities and enable the business to move forward at a much faster pace. 

How Gartner helped

  • Gartner resources provided KONE with benchmarks of the finance industry and helped them gain perspective on what other organizations are doing.
  • Gartner experts joined team meetings to bring the team up to speed on the finance transformation journey and provide outside information in.
  • Governance vs. Guidance. Gartner helped the director understand how to flex in different situations between these terms. 

Business impact

With Gartner’s support, the Finance Director was able to: 

  • Raise awareness of the financial transformation journey and bring the next generation of their workforce into senior leadership positions.
  • Save a tremendous amount of time back to the teams, by enabling the team let go of certain transactional work and focus on the value-added pieces of work.

Industry:
Engineering

Revenue:
$450 million (AUD)

Employees:
1500

Contact:
Claudia Tong,
Finance Director 

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Gartner is such an invaluable resource in providing outside information in for our finance team to move forward.

Claudia Tong

Finance Director, KONE - Australia & New Zealand

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