Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.

Industry 12

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 12

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. It’s a core part of the CFO’s work: Last year Oka personally met with 145 investors and his IR team collectively met with more than 500.

Company 8

Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

A survey that we conducted earlier this year, of 319 executives around the world as well as 12 CEO workshops with leaders of over 100 of the most promising growth companies, indicates that the most troublesome challenges cluster in four areas. A driver survey this year showed that Uber drivers are now less satisfied than Lyft drivers.

CEO 12

CEO IPO Energy COO 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

But given that today's CMO is often the main connection between the consumer and the company, a strong relationship with the CIO can allow her to leverage technology to better understand those customers. Data can spring from a number of places: loyalty cards, purchases, social media behavior, website analytics, surveys, etc.

CIO 8

CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The digital work crisis is this unnerving pace of technological change, complex global networks, and lists product and service variation in almost infinite work streams, a whole tone of digital distractions, and fundamental access to more data than humans can handle. And this is the digital work crisis. Alex Shootman, Workfront.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Recent data shows the majority of companies worldwide (71 percent) don’t have a clearly defined strategy for grooming and developing women as company leaders, according to a 2011 Women’s Leadership Development Survey conducted by Mercer. Internal Candidates Are Regularly Tapped to Fill Open Roles.

Career 247

Career Company Software Handbook 247

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

This is about more than technology. As one financial services CFO told us, “Our mental models were so rigid that even how we thought about data itself needed to be challenged. In the survey we conducted last year, we found that only 17% of companies tied innovation to compensation. But that is not always the case.

CEO 8

CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

As one CFO told me, the phrase "IT Risk" contains two dirty words. But being able to talk about IT risk is essential if you are going to make the right decisions about how you use technology in your business. Surprisingly, many people say it was "how to have the IT risk conversation.". The word risk makes him feel uncomfortable.

Agility 8

Agility How To Incentives CFO 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

This is my plea for the “meeters&# of the world to break from the pack and start becoming “doers.&# Many studies find that 70% or better surveyed said their meetings are very often time-wasters and could be more productive. I spent more time meeting and less time actually doing. Assign tasks and ask if there are questions.

Press Release 140

Press Release Discount PR Magazine 140

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

We’ve been surveying workers for five years, and the response remains consistent: workers are so busy with distractions that they don’t have time to focus on their primary job, much less invent the future. Digital technology should be freeing us up to be more innovative and productive. This isn’t a new issue, either.

Innovation 8

Innovation Content Team Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

If your strategy relies heavily on aggressive M&A, for example, do you really want a CFO who doesn’t command a salary higher than the norm? Forty-six percent of executives and directors surveyed by the think-tank Focusing Capital on the Long Term noted that the board was a major source of demands for short-term results, more than 2.5

Benchmarking 10

Benchmarking Company Short-term Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2017

One survey of IT decision makers found that the average cost of a successful spear-phishing attack is $1.6 A cybercriminal might impersonate a CFO or CEO, and then send an email to accounts payable asking for a wire transfer, or to HR requesting a dump of employee tax information.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain System CFO Operations 8