Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Christian Hoogerheyde, a project manager at Socrata, a Seattle-based cloud software company, says his Icelandic guide’s social skills “serve as a lesson to me every time I try to establish a new client’s trust.” Guides demonstrate social Intelligence, the ability to build and maintain positive relationships. It’s about showing them.”

Leadership Styles 120

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

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2020

Put it this way: just because an agency placed a technical Project Manager at a software company doesn’t mean they can find the right Chief Financial Officer or Director of Marketing in the same industry. First, the roles (or needs) of those previous searches may have been significantly different from yours.

Execution 213

Execution Chief Financial Officer Industry Strategy 213

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Think about the Boeing Engineer evaluating a GE jet engine for a new airplane…a CIO evaluating a new Enterprise Resource Planning System software provider…or a CFO reviewing audit firms. . Domain knowledge — The B2B buyer has the expertise and experience in the offering being considered.

B2C 95

B2C B2B Marketing CIO 95

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2018

If you don’t have one already, hiring a CFO or accountant is a good idea if you need help managing your money as a business. It is, therefore, key that you adopt positive habits when it comes to money and use the many tools and software available to aid the process. Hire a Professional.

Tips 52

Tips Management Budgeting Discount 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource. CFOs of these companies themselves admit that they cannot justify their market capitalizations based on traditional metrics.

Report 8

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The requirement was to replace the primary software tool of the company, in less than a month’s time. The already overburdened technology team had no bandwidth and the CFO would not accept changing priorities of other efforts. Ultimately, I was called into the CFO’s office and asked for my resignation.

CFO 185

CFO Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Technology 185

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2011

based software company that went public just last year, I know this well. And as a former CFO I also understand the preoccupation with numbers, but during my time as a CEO it has become clearer to me than ever, that numbers don't tell the whole story. As a CEO leading a global U.S.-based is that in the U.S.

CFO 13

CFO Software Engineering CEO 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

They figure out how much the new computer system and software will cost and they compare that with the cash flow generated through efficiencies (assuming they know how to analyze returns based on cash flow). When the CFO analyzed it and said “No way,” the owner got another CFO. Of course not. ” Guess what?

Finance 8

Finance NPV CFO ROI 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. Cut layers.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2011

Every day, business people face critical buying decisions – from new software to revamped website design to employee training programs. Dirty Little Secrets : Why buyers can’t buy and sellers can’t sell and what you can do about it by Sharon Drew Morgen. She then presents the same situation using Buying Facilitation ®.

Case Study 50

Case Study Technology Resistance Project 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Dirty Little Secrets : Why buyers can’t buy and sellers can’t sell and what you can do about it by Sharon Drew Morgen Every day, business people face critical buying decisions – from new software to revamped website design to employee training programs. She then presents the same situation using Buying Facilitation ®.

Servant Leader 50

Servant Leader Newsletter Resources CFO 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

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. Martig was a seasoned CFO with years of forecasting experience in technology firms. Forecasting acumen.

CFO 8

CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Women on Business

AUGUST 15, 2012

Laura has 13 + years experience with Palo Alto Software (Eugene OR) in multiple roles including sales, customer service, customer support, and assistant to CFO. In the first three months alone she generated more than 4,000 tweets, attracted 500 followers, and reached a Klout score of 41, which is about 85th percentile.

Media 181

Media CFO Team Education 181

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

A platform can be a business platform (a multisided market), a software platform (a cloud-based subscription service), or an engagement platform, (a user-generated community). Patents, trademarks, brands, data, and software (IP) are proprietary assets creating differentiation.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Perhaps your manager had your job title a few years or months back, or your new CFO recently transitioned into the role from heading the accounting department. Increasingly, employers are leveraging software to ensure all employees have a path to growth if they want one. Internal Candidates Are Regularly Tapped to Fill Open Roles.

Career 247

Career Company Software Handbook 247

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." In another, I managed significant software changeover/upgrade for more accurate and timely processing of accounting functions, inventory reports, and financial statements." ​ ​1.

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

” Avery points out that several companies now sell marketing mix software, which uses complex algorithms to help managers disentangle the attribution problem. A CFO might just see marketing expenses walking out the door and not a corresponding build-up of cash flows and assets,” Avery explains.

ROI 8

ROI Marketing Marketing Mix Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Instead of selling the streetlights and leaving the cities to manage them, the company would rent them out for a monthly fee, with installation, maintenance, and monitoring software all included. Worse, it apparently hadn’t hired or trained anyone to use the software tools. Cameron sighed. “Of course he is.”

Case Study 8

Case Study Business Model CFO Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Australia’s main CFO forum, the G100 , has shown interest in the topic and even published a paper offering broad support for integrated reporting, arguing that “corporate reporting reform is underway and CFOs should seize the opportunity to drive the reporting agenda.”

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

A recent Washington Post investigation titled “The big problem for Uber now: Attracting talent” detailed the roots of this problem throughout the company and at the top, where 13 of the top 20 management positions remain empty, including the positions of COO and CFO. The lesson is that strategic reversal can happen quickly.

CEO 12

CEO IPO Energy COO 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

On the technology front, the CIO''s once-tight hold on the devices and software employees use has evaporated (except perhaps in the financial world, where regulation keeps legacy systems in place) as markedly better and more adaptable consumer tools have conquered the workplace.

CIO 8

CIO Succession Fast Follower Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. Before you hire a data scientist or implement expensive machine learning software, have a face-to-face conversation with 15 customers.

Metrics 14

Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

How about this, the boardroom version of Sophie''s Choice: "Who would you rather fire, the CFO or the CSO?". billion bid to acquire the Huiyuan Juice Group, the largest such acquisition of a Chinese firm at the time, was derailed when an executive opened a spear-phishing email containing a link to key-logging software.

CEO 8

CEO CFO Offshoring Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Comstock is out.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Noski, former CFO of Bank of America. All have served at or near the pinnacle of company power, and they now bring that experience to judging who has the requisite skill-set to lead the world’s largest software maker in a fast-morphing market. Luczo, chairman and CEO of Seagate, and Charles H.

CEO 8

CEO Committee P&L Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

We’ve spent an awful lot of money on technology, but I still see people working in the old way,” complained the CFO of a large hospitality company. They make their money by selling products and software, rarely by getting them used at scale. Why does this happen? And finally, the bottom line: user adoption programs cost money.

Technology 8

Technology Metrics Budgeting CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2011

When one of Apple's design teams was tasked with developing a DVD-burning software program for high-end Macs, developers spent weeks putting together a plan. According to Fortune Magazine , only one executive at the firm — the CFO — has P&L responsibility. He focuses on the details relevant to the customer's experience.

P&L 14

P&L Supply Chain Retail COO 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

As one CFO told me, the phrase "IT Risk" contains two dirty words. The Escalating Cost of Software Malice. Every time my colleagues and I come to the end of the course, we ask people what they considered the most important thing they learned. Surprisingly, many people say it was "how to have the IT risk conversation.".

Agility 8

Agility How To Incentives CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

Ultimately, Nokia initiated a radical strategic renewal in 2013 by divesting its mobile phone business and focusing on manufacturing network equipment and software, patent licensing, and opportunities in wearable technology and the internet of things.

Strategy 8

Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

I was in China two months ago consulting with CIOs who were not only using software as a service (SaaS), but several were also in the process of implementing hardware as a service, connectivity as a service, collaboration as a service, and security as a service. Why Can''t a CIO Be More Like a CFO? Are We Asking Too Much of Our CIOs?

CIO 8

CIO Innovation Technology Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

So once the finance department, CFO, or treasure department has determined what the rate is, managers know that is the number to beat if they want to win support for their projects or proposals. Let’s look at that first instance. “You’re basically saying that we’re not getting the return you expected.”

Cost of Capital 8

Cost of Capital Cost Finance Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

One year, the CFO noticed that there was a miscalculation that resulted in a shortage of a few million euros. It turned out that the miscalculation was the result of a software flaw that only lasted for a few hours.

How To 8

How To Ethics Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

If you or I were the CFO of a manufacturing company, and we were in a board meeting, and the board asked, “What is your manufacture and capacity utilization?” I’ve been part of three different software companies that created brand new categories. Think about that, Angelia. And I’ve been fortunate.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

He was the CFO of their company, a software start-up with about 75 employees. Nothing happened that first night. Yes, Brad had flirted. Yes, Elizabeth had flirted back. They’d had more than one drink. But she knew better than to take it any further. She was its star salesperson.

Case Study 8

Case Study Conference Hotels COO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

People who have earned these belts drive projects with clear financial targets set at the top organization, with progress monitored by the CFO. BPM missionaries say processes and process knowledge embedded in software, an enterprise architecture, and a central process management organization sustain improvement.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

If I were the CFO of a manufacturing company and was asked by the board for my manufacturing capacity utilization and I said I didn’t know or that it was only 40%, I’d probably get released to ‘pursue other opportunities.’ Why do we let this happen?

Innovation 8

Innovation Content Team Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

The CEO wonders how you spend your time, the CFO wonders how you spend the company’s money, the sales folks think you’re too conceptual, too abstract, and not sufficiently focused on the immediate business, and the production and supply chain guys just think you’re full of hot air.".

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Real Estate ROI CFO 13