HR Digest

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The HR is supposed to be a true partner to the CEO, just like the CFO. These could be by moving employee positions, recognizing hidden talents or bringing external individuals to develop capability in a new technology. Such analysis should be provided by CHROs and not consultants. That’s absolutely wrong.

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CEO CFO McKinsey Human Resources 63

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 23, 2015

Usually the CEO and the CFO have the biggest impact on organization-wide changes, but it is not always so; in some cases the hierarchy doesn’t reflect the amount of influence, so it’s advisable to check everything carefully. Stakeholder Analysis. Where should you start? First of all, you need to discover who your true stakeholders are.

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Project Succession Stakeholder Analysis Influence 150

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 1, 2016

If we build leadership in others, we develop a stronger line and an overall stronger organization.” John Sims, CFO at Snowden Lane Partners who climbed the Grand Teton with a guide-led team, says, “Without trust in your teammates, you will only do as much as faith in your own limited abilities will take you.” Guides are trust-builders.

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Leadership Styles CFO Learning-by-Doing Self-aware 120

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

What receives far less attention is that, more and more in our increasingly complex, volatile, and fully-globalized business world, the effectiveness of such action depends on a powerful partnership between the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the General Counsel (GC). Compliance.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2020

The early stages present numerous opportunities for disagreement, whether it’s around funding or product development, and when stress and tiredness are added to the mix, it can be incredibly combustible. Who would be CFO or COO? Selecting the team. Assigning roles. Who would be CEO? Idea or team.

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Team Entrepreneur COO CFO 85

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

You can either ramble on about all the data you’re gathering and the analysis you’re doing or you can give them a brief yet powerful explanation of the idea you’re pursuing and why it’s exciting. The CFO will care about profits. The CFO might be interested but would wonder how profitable those sales will be.

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Metrics CFO Chief Financial Officer Marketing 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In terms of the bigger picture, the lack of reliable data pertaining to attacks on private companies leads to lopsided analysis regarding the multifaceted aims and motives driving these attacks, resulting in a sort of half-finished portrait of the threat landscape. Make no mistake: this problem is only getting worse.

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Chief Technology Officer Short-term How To Long-term 77

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

A new study by The Bridgespan Group, based on a survey of more than 400 nonprofit C-suite executives and dozens of interviews, surfaced this surprising finding and discussed how to address this leadership development deficit. Another example of successful talent development and mentoring is Good Shepherd Services in New York.

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Development Mentor COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Since then, as the composition of top executive teams has changed, responsibility for leading strategy development has been shared by more members of the C-suite. The 1990s saw the rise of the strategic CFO, and more recently many companies have created a chief strategy officer (CSO) position. There are two reasons for this.

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Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

Strategy has become more about formulation than implementation, and more about getting the analysis right at the outset than living with a strategy over time," Montgomery says. Developing Nations to Outstrip the Rich in Oil Consumption (Slate). That’s because demand is weakening in rich countries while it booms in the developing world.

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CFO Discount Price Cost 20

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Half are C-Suite level executives, meaning that they serve as CEO, CFO, COO or the board of directors at a company. Betsey Stevenson’s analysis of national data shows that the median state has a 17 percentage point difference between the ratio of male athletes to male students and that ratio for girls. We still have a ways to go.

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Sports COO CFO Participative 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

.” Pandas look innocent, but their powerful jaws deliver a bite stronger than a jaguars’ Pandas can be painfully costly to individuals whose careers stall for reasons unbeknownst to them and to organizations and managers unable to develop talented leaders to their full potential. 28% related to communication style.

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Career CFO Sample Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

Strategy has become more about formulation than implementation, and more about getting the analysis right at the outset than living with a strategy over time," Montgomery says. Developing Nations to Outstrip the Rich in Oil Consumption (Slate). That’s because demand is weakening in rich countries while it booms in the developing world.

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CFO Discount Price Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans. Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. That’s because so many of the issues we deal with have to do with human behavior.

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Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

In our work with clients across dozens of sectors over more than five years, we have found that the strongest CMO/CFO partnerships develop when both parties undertake five actions: 1. CMOs need to start building this relationship by having a clear understanding of what CFOs expect.

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CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Focusing on additive contribution, a term we developed in a collaboration with Alix Hughes , diversity program leader at Amazon, is a powerful way to avoid sameness in a team and to foster inclusion and innovation. Run a gap analysis. Ask, “What skills and experiences am I missing on my team that this person has?”

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Power Management Diversity CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Analytics requirements can span business units, database and analysis systems, and reporting hierarchies. Who will champion enterprise-level analysis as opposed to business unit–level analysis? As predictive analytics becomes more commonplace, companies are grappling with how to better organize and grow their analytics teams.

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Company COO Information Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US. Thanks to the analysis, Nikon could identify and then interview past investors to understand the reasons they had purchased and then sold their Nikon shares.

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Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

Marketing ROI analysis can help answer those questions. “In principle, managers should try to estimate the full cost of the marketing activity, including creative development, media spend, and customer-facing staff time.” As a result, CFOs and CMOs are often at odds. trillion in 2019, up from $1.6 trillion in 2014.

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ROI Marketing Marketing Mix Short-term 8

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 6, 2010

A CEO asked me to coach his potential successor, the CFO. It didn't take long before I just felt that the CEO just didn't like the CFO. I brought it to his attention: "I just don't think you like the CFO." or to work on developing him as your successor, if you really don't want him to have the job?" the CEO told me. "If

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CEO CFO Skills Open-book 118

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Analytics requirements can span business units, database and analysis systems, and reporting hierarchies. Who will champion enterprise-level analysis as opposed to business unit–level analysis? It is also impossible to maintain consistency and efficiency when independent groups all pursue analytics in their own way.

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Company COO CFO Analysis 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Sharon Drew explores what happens when he stumbles in the dark trying to bring his fellow managers, the internal tech team (which is responsible for the current site), and the CFO (to whom the tech team reports) on board. She then presents the same situation using Buying Facilitation ®. The result?

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Servant Leader Newsletter Resources CFO 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

In today's economy, where the fast growth of emerging markets outpaces America and the developed world, if you haven't gone global yet, it's time to get moving. [For more, visit the Communication Insight Center.]. But going global is easier said than done — especially for smaller companies.

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P&L Globalization CFO Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

In particular, top managers and even some board members were unable or afraid to voice their concerns about the severity of the threats and to develop a stronger response. feeling fear], a solution in their mind, that they need to sell to the board, that would be a complete disaster.”

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Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

A good boss provides encouragement, development, mentoring, and support, while also being fair, constructively critical, and helpful in integrating employees into high-performing teams. Eventually, her team built a portfolio that caught the interest of the CFO and the CEO, and soon she was meeting regularly with them.

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Supply Chain CFO Performance Review Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

We have reviewed hundreds of corporate announcements and websites, interviewed numerous leadership experts, and conducted an analysis of CEO changes and successions over the past five years at S&P 500 and Global 100 companies. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend. Succession planning'

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CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

A new Conference Board study, as CFO magazine reported , reveals some startling growth in greener products at a dozen big companies like Kimberly-Clark, Dow, GE, Siemens, Toshiba, and more. Anytime the giants of an industry really start competing and collaborating on sustainability, it’s a very good development.

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Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

The analysis and design phase of a "bet your company" process change needs to be done thoroughly. The company in our story got so excited by its process blueprints that it forgot to develop a clear financial case. Process champions must have them ready for the day when the CEO or CFO effectively says, "Show me the money.".

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Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The patterns that you develop at this key stage will grow with you and will spell the difference between running or stumbling as you hit the growth stage. Scaling up comes with CFO and board pressure to gain efficiency, and the natural tendency of a business will be to squeeze customer teams. What to do. Don’t delay.

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Gene Morphis, former CFO of CVS and David's Bridal suggests: "There is an interesting intersection between risk management and innovation that emerges in the CMO-CIO interface." Below are four suggestions for building this power partnership in your company. Find Common Ground. Apply Tools that Everyone Can Use.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 8

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

This post isn’t intended to argue the merits of Obama’s politics, nor of the Times’ and other analysis. We work really hard on developing smart solutions, only to see them fail because we don’t have enough juice in the organization. and public opinion.” And I say “we” because I’ve been as guilty of this as anybody.

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Influence Blog Politics Learning-by-Doing 275

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here. A well-known early adopter of the Net Promoter system began linking NPS improvement to executive compensation before it had developed adequate disciplines and processes for understanding its scores. "We A clear link to financial and strategic outcomes.

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Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

This oft-heard defense of buybacks is clearly hollow: Once a CEO or CFO makes this claim, the company cannot sell the stock at a higher price for the benefit of the corporate treasury without signaling to traders that the stock is now over valued, something that no top executive would want to do. ’ ” The losers.

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Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

He says that too many internal candidates treat these meetings as development conversations, not as interviews. Ask someone you can trust to be candid — a mentor, an external coach, or someone in a learning-and-development or HR role. John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Just the Job!:

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How To Reputation Case Study Career 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2011

His business development team had gotten some good market data about the border cities — Matamoros, Ciudad Juárez — and some leads on potential partners. Back at the office, Stan stopped by to see his CFO, Carl Amirault. Your own team's analysis showed how many people don't have access to credit there.". Stan smiled.

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Case Study Marketing Real Estate Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

I find these particularly relevant to personal development, as individuals often must resolve the tensions between competing values and traits and must carefully monitor their own strengths so those strengths don’t lapse into weaknesses. My favorites are those that highlight two factors that seem, at first glance, in conflict.

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Agility Balanced Scorecard COO CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

ran, a Florida-based shopping-center-development group, and she was devoted to both him and his firm. In Sarah’s opinion, the problem was obvious: Sid Yerby, the CFO. The young and inexperienced CEO confessed that he often felt uncomfortable asking tough questions of the CFO, an industry veteran who was 10 years his senior.

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