Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Old and Obsolete Infrastructure: Azeotrope, an aerospace firm in the Southeast, realized they were compromised when a number of clients complained of receiving invoices from Azeotrope that contained confidential information about their client’s orders and projects. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? An excerpt is below.

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Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 97

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The Unaware CEO : These CEO’s will take any report or piece of information at face value. They fail to seek clarification, validation, or proof supporting the information they have been fed. moravecglobal Here's another example of disconnected leadership and the consequences for, in this case, students, faculty and taxpayers.

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Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 417

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 10

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

CMOs and CFOs don't always see eye-to-eye. An article published in CFO.com indicates that in one study, more CMOs report sharing marketing information with their CFOs than CFOs reported receiving. We found that we shared a passion for finance, the stock market, innovation, and marketing (and, candidly, politics).

CFO 8

CFO Advertising Finance Marketing 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The CIO has to know what's going on in finance and marketing, for instance, and P&L experience is important even for support functions like human resources. So, for instance, if you want a top finance job it's not enough to be the best CFO in the U.S.; you have to be the best CFO in the world.

Execution 15

Execution P&L CFO Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

We genuinely believe we are gathering relevant information that will help us decide objectively whether the person is a good fit for the job. ” In finance, for example, that might mean believing — based on no evidence — that only MBA graduates from an elite university are likely to succeed at their jobs.

Power 10

Power Management Diversity CFO 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

When I do get a name, it often differs depending on who I asked—a marketing executive points to one person, while finance identifies someone else. It is time to connect these groups, elevate analytics to a strategic corporate practice, and assign executive leadership to oversee it. Information & technology Leadership'

Company 8

Company COO Information Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

At one point, the CEO indicated that he would know that the right shift had occurred when the CFO, chief strategy officer, and other C-level leaders were seeking the CMO’s advice on strategic business problems. “I needed to earn the right to be invited into key, firm-level strategic decisions.”

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CFO CEO Agility Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

How much time do you spend enhancing your organizational culture, leadership pipeline, and employer brand? If you’re typical, then your culture, leadership, and employment brand are described vaguely or not at all. How well are those efforts reported to your investors? Why the interest?

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

If you want driving directions from Google Maps, your app asks you for two pieces of information: your current location and your desired location. Leadership & Developing People Book. If you want to be a chief financial officer (CFO), identify five CFOs who you admire or who are well regarded in your industry.

Career 8

Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

After all, what company on earth enjoyed greater access to more insights more quickly from more people searching for more information? Google, of course, is hardly the only digital juggernaut supersaturated in an embarrassment of informational riches. That's the essence of the Big Data business case.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The chief financial officer (CFO) role rose to prominence in the mid -1980’s as pressures for value management and more transparent investor relations gained traction. In some cases, the way forward will be to enhance the mandate of (and provide new forms of support for) the chief information, marketing, strategy, or risk officer.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 8

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. Insight Center.

Industry 11

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here. On the macro level, you can estimate the value of achieving customer loyalty leadership in terms of market share gains or revenue growth. You can also use these processes to inform policy, pricing, staffing, process and product improvements.

Incentives 10

Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite. Make sure the program has a senior sponsor and is integrated across the company, ideally in the corporate university or leadership development departments.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

” This chitchat can often provide crucial information about the other side’s interests that might help you later. You may already know that the other side is under pressure because of supply-chain issues, or new leadership. . “Don’t rush to the substance,” says Weiss. Try to see the issue from their eyes.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain How To Price Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

There are many moving parts in people's career decisions — family, the economy, finances — and you may simply not know what the next five years holds. Butler says that hiring managers rely on it to get at several different pieces of information at once. If you don't know, admit it. This may be true in some situations.

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P&L Committee Career Learning-by-Doing 17