CFO Management ROI Technology 
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 23, 2015
Most finance managers in both large and small businesses encounter numerous proposals for capital investments and many of the people proposing these investments don’t have a clear picture of what the return will be. Everyone always wants new equipment — new computers or other hot technologies. Finance & Accounting Tool.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Almost any enterprise you can think of, no matter the industry or sector, is trying (or being pressured by competitors) to use new technology to harness the vast new oceans of data being generated by smartphones, sensors, digital cameras, GPS devices, and myriad other sources of information originating from customers and markets.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 19, 2011
Sebell (mark@creativerealities.com), who are managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc. a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. In interviews with a dozen senior managers from a large company, two particular failures came up over and over again. Create a knowledge management system.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 26, 2011
It's difficult to get senior executives who have been successful managing a particular way to realize that they need to change their approach. 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.
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.”
Harvard Business Review
JULY 21, 2016
And we have figured out why: analytics forces changes on the C-suite that the CEO has to anticipate and manage, but many don’t. The findings show that fewer than half of analytics programs met initial return-on-investment (ROI) goals. But poor ROI is only part of the story. This is about more than technology.
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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