Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Take, for instance, the automotive industry. Simultaneously, the traditional automotive business model—built around individual car ownership—may soon be replaced by fleets of autonomous vehicles owned by service providers rather than individual people. As one anonymous Fortune 500 CEO shared: My CFO started well.

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Execution Team Automotive CEO 324

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

To many, a modern meat plant might seem somewhat “shocking”, but to us this “automotive assembly plant operating in reverse” is common place and, in fact, we are not easily “shocked” by much of anything (for evidence of this you are welcome to view the video on our website).

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

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

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Facebook’s first HR hire, she has led global people programs, been an HR Business Partner, and CFO. Former CEO of KKR Capstone for Asia Pacific. Advisor and Speaker at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

Water, no ice, please,” said Noelle Freeman, the CFO of Franklin Climate Systems. As CFO, Noelle was, of course, concerned about the numbers. FB Holdings had made it through the financial crisis of 2008 without losing money—but the climate control systems divisions, a Tier 1 automotive supplier, had not fared as well.

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Case Study CFO Bottom-up Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Avoid specializing by customer type (SaaS vs. Ecommerce vs. Automotive) or specific types of problems–your go-to-market is still changing, continue optimizing for flexibility. 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 not to do.

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 14