CFO, Finance, Industry and Technology

Technology Literacy Will Determine a CFO’s Success

HR Digest

JULY 8, 2022

The one thing that will majorly influence the fate of CFO aspirants is their tech skills. According to a Gartner survey of 173 CFOs in November 2020, digital investments topped CFO agendas. Technology literacy is key to making informed decisions about digital investments.

Technology

Technology CFO Succession Finance

Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Both are high-volume capital intense process industries. . Direct Industry Experience: Running in a close second place to past portfolio company experience, which I addressed in part two, is the importance of direct industry sector knowledge and expertise. A search partner with industry knowledge is critical.

Execution

Execution Company Charisma Constraint

Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Claire Diaz-Ortiz – Technology innovator and speaker. Alex Osterwalder – Co-founder Strategyzer. Entrepreneurs.

Executive Coaching

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking

The Financial Industry Needs to Start Planning for the Next 50 Years, Not the Next Five

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.

Industry

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term

Why Can't a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. At the same time, technology budgets are static or contracting, and non-IT execs want more attention to cost-cutting. Because no one is managing the store. How did we get here?

CIO

CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer

How CFOs Can Take the Long-Term View in a Short-Term Economy

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

This, in turn, is triggering a shift in the perceived role of the CFO — from bean counters to planters of seed corn. Redefining the CFO role. After all, it’s the CFO who typically sets expectations about growth to investors and then allocates resources to ensure their organizations deliver.

Short-term

Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman

Should Companies Retain "Strategic" Cash?

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

This raises the question of whether retaining strategic cash makes economic sense and should be viewed as a legitimate corporate finance tool in today's environment. Often citing the maxim that "cash is king", CFOs know that strategic cash can enhance shareholder value in various ways. Arguments for Strategic Cash. It can: Save Taxes.

Company

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term

What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

CFO

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources

Social Media Compliance Isn't Fun, But It's Necessary

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. Just ask Gene Morphis, ex-CFO of clothing retailer Francesca's. Go to LinkedIn and do a search for people currently employed by your enterprise," says social compliance strategist and financial industry veteran Mike Langford.

Compliance

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IT Doesn't Matter (to CEOs)

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. IT isn''t somebody else''s job, it''s ultimately theirs.

CEO

CEO CIO Technology CFO

Overcome Your Biases and Build a Great Team

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Nance Dicciani, to head our European operations in 1999 (first in the senior ranks in our industry to hold such a senior position); a Venezuelan (Rueben Salazar) and Korean (YiHyon Paik) to head our operations in Japan; an African-American (Charles Hill) as CFO of our subsidiary in Japan; and the list goes on and on.

Team

Team Diversity CFO TSR

How Digital Leaders Get the Right Work Done - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM WORKFRONT

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In fact, only eight percent of companies’ CEOs believe that their business model will remain economically viable if their industry continues to digitize at its current course and speed. People are welcoming technology investments, and people want to do great work that has a purpose. And this is the digital work crisis.

Content

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing

What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Every CEO, CMO, CFO, and business unit leader should ask themselves these questions: If I decided to launch a hedge fund based solely on the data our business generates, what kind of financial opportunities immediately suggest themselves? Does our data suggest exciting investment options in adjacent or complementary industries?

Hedge

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI

Case Study: A Short-Seller Crashes the Party

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Densmor, Terranola’s CFO, saw those words on Twitter about one minute after Hughes had uttered them. As CFO, A.J. But when his marketing chief got a tip that a global snack industry website was about to publish an interview with Hughes about Terranola, A.J. ExSolv claimed to have a technology for extracting oil from sand.

Case Study

Case Study CFO Hedge PR

The Conversation We Should Be Having About Corporate Taxes

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

company takes on the legal identity of foreign subsidiary, usually in order to reduce its taxes — has become about as controversial as corporate finance topics get. go to the system that almost all other industrial nations have of just taxing people where they earn the money. The corporate inversion — when a U.S. It’s driven many U.S.

Globalization

Globalization CEO System Offshoring

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Technology Literacy Will Determine a CFO’s Success

Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

The Financial Industry Needs to Start Planning for the Next 50 Years, Not the Next Five

Why Can't a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

How CFOs Can Take the Long-Term View in a Short-Term Economy

Should Companies Retain "Strategic" Cash?

What It Will Take to Fix HR

Social Media Compliance Isn't Fun, But It's Necessary

IT Doesn't Matter (to CEOs)

Overcome Your Biases and Build a Great Team

How Digital Leaders Get the Right Work Done - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM WORKFRONT

What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Case Study: A Short-Seller Crashes the Party

The Conversation We Should Be Having About Corporate Taxes

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