N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat. The UC Berkley budget gap has grown to $150 million, & still the Chancellor is spending money that isn't there on $3,000,000 consultants.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors. Getting the CFO on board is key. CFO Tim Olson of ThedaCare , a healthcare system in Wisconsin, went through a similar conversion. Then I became an advocate. Now I know that.".

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

Everyone always wants new equipment — new computers or other hot technologies. The two founding partners were both engineers who loved technology. Several years ago, when I was serving as the company’s CFO, one of founders came to me and said, “Joe, I would like to buy a new three-dimensional printer.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

But massive disruptions in business models, technology, and the work force have been throwing up massive new challenges for CIOs and other technology leaders. Consequently, CIOs and business leaders with a technology focus face more cacophony and challenge than ever before. Organizational DNA. Corporate boards should take note.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

I met the team at Albert (formerly known as Adgorithms) while I was doing research into artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven marketing technologies for my book, Marketing, Interrupted. In fact, she’s challenging the notion of a “budget” altogether.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Even what appears to be a small investment risk can turn into a big one, especially when information technology comes into play. The project budget paid for the software and not a lot more. BlueArc’s CFO, Rick Martig, and other executives gathered market data to support the investment in the mid-tier data storage product.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2012

Many people assume it's all about moving to a "pay-as-you-go" (PAYG) model and while this is certainly a big piece of it, it also involves operating versus capital expenses, subscriptions to services, and customers paying for outcomes (not technology). The good news is that these models are already familiar to most businesses.

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CFO Operations Budgeting Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

After a morning innovation workshop at the bucolic R&D campus of a top-tier but tradition-rich technology giant, the lunchtime conversation with the Lab’s leadership turned strategic. “We’re really not budgeted for that,” the leadership team explained.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

Chief "Innovation" Officer: Looking for disruptive technologies to drive innovation. Whetstone argues that companies need to do a better job of empowering the entire organization to access and manipulate data, while at the same time integrating the CIO''s role more seamlessly into business units (and business unit budgets).

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

She and her team researched several options, decided on an activity, and realized they needed $2,000 beyond the budget. She made a presentation to the VP of Public Relations, the CFO, and the president of the company to get the extra support.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

Invest significant time in training and mentoring a junior colleague so they can run the budget meetings without you. The same kind of technologies that enable you to compete at work — the calendars, the shared work tools — should be used at home. Work differently.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Some localities had bought lights but failed to fully utilize the accompanying technology, which meant they couldn’t service them properly or achieve the hoped-for energy savings. It would position Lumiscape’s technology platform for growth as the smart-cities movement showed signs of taking off. But not here , he thought.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

When the CEO assigns ownership of analytics, that executive will command bigger budgets and more time on the board agenda and will oversee a powerful new pool of resources. This is about more than technology. The CEO has to work on four things: Actively manage C-suite dynamics. Every C-suite maintains a delicate balance of power.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

the CEO’s or CFO’s), but rather serve the needs of our internal project sponsors (usually at the CXO, EVP, and SVP level). ” Prior to starting any engagement, clients should approve a statement of work and commit to paying the “fees” for the internal consulting team out of their budgets.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

Coordinating the infrastructure, technology, and messaging in a way that appears seamless and fluid to the customer is, to be blunt, a logistical nightmare. Operations and marketing meet, discuss, and iterate what the final budget will be and what the ultimate goal will be. But getting it right pays off.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

” “What sort of budget increase are you suggesting we ask for?” ” Ken turned to his CFO, expecting a reaction, and got one: “Respectfully, Mari-san, I would be extremely uncomfortable putting a request of that size to management. That’s the only way we’ll get to quicker turn times.”

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