Strategy Driven
JULY 27, 2011
In order for any change to occur – whether it’s a decision to purchase a product, or an implementation to add new technology – whatever touches the ultimate solution must buy-in to the change. In 1983, in London, I started up a body shop/recruitment company to support the ‘new’ language and ’4GL’ support technology called Focus.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 5, 2016
Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. And he’d seen and heard about similar cases of misuse elsewhere. He clearly had a strong opinion on this, as any good CFO would. But not here , he thought.
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Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 27, 2016
Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. ” Ken turned to his CFO, expecting a reaction, and got one: “Respectfully, Mari-san, I would be extremely uncomfortable putting a request of that size to management.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 11, 2013
Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Densmor, Terranola’s CFO, saw those words on Twitter about one minute after Hughes had uttered them. As CFO, A.J. I know the investors will come around.”
Harvard Business Review
MAY 8, 2015
Editors’ Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The plan was to go public next year, and Jake and his CFO had been trying to cut costs, but they had mostly spared the IT group. Some of that was true.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 28, 2016
Virtually every 21 st century business scandal is reducible to a morality tale of a technology that allows us to do things we couldn’t before, coupled with major institutional failures that were enabled by failures of omission and commission of corporate leaders. Consider the Columbia and Challenger space shuttle disasters.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 17, 2014
Consider how USAA – the nation’s 6 th largest consumer P&C insurer – has reinvented how marketing, finance and data analytics work together, starting with a first-ever partnership between the CMO, CFO and Chief Data Analytics officer. In some cases, finance even leads a vendor selection process once dominated by marketing.
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