Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. The Change: Was It Innovation, Serendipity or Providence? Million; not big, but interesting. Undeterred, we issue our Letter of Intent to the State; one of hundreds.

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

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. However, in the best run companies, the relationship between CMOs and CFOs has changed radically and for the better.

CFO 8

CFO Advertising Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The 1990s saw the rise of the strategic CFO, and more recently many companies have created a chief strategy officer (CSO) position. Such friction is destructive — and a huge missed opportunity, because the CFO and the strategy head are far more effective when they collaborate. Tapping the most promising growth spots.

Strategy 8

Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Acutely aware of the competitive edges timely data offers sophisticated investors, the company's ever-entrepreneurial cofounder once proposed that Google launch a hedge fund. The same investment logic holds for Apple's innovation ecosystem; the flow and fortune of its third-party apps development alone would yield valuable insight.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

A large division of this company had recognized the need to dramatically change its business model to survive and succeed in a changing market. As my consultant friend Chunka Mui proposed in a recent post at Forbes.com, the best way to make a big change is to "think big, start small, fail quickly, and scale fast."

Process 15

Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships. The board had unanimously approved the proposal from Cameron and his COO, Stacy Hamiko, to shift to that strategy. He clearly had a strong opinion on this, as any good CFO would.

Case Study 8

Case Study Business Model CFO Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

But the ones who really understand the issue see gender balance as not just a numbers game but part of a broader, more strategic cultural shift that includes developing leadership teams representing geographically diffuse markets. Some of those searches, like the one, three years ago, for our CFO, took twice as long as normal.

Diversity 8

Diversity CFO Globalization Video 8