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3 Major Challenges Financial Institutions Face When Implementing Business Insight Technology

Strategy Driven

But you must also remember that any new technology you onboard will bring change to your bank’s operations—some of which isn’t welcome just yet. It’s usually the job of a bank’s chief financial officer (CFO), chief risk officer (CRO), or chief technology officer (CTO) to oversee tech implementation.

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Deadly Disease of Management: Emphasis on Short-term Profits

Deming Institute

Many large investments at our railroad and utility operations are also made with an eye to payoffs well down the road. …. At Berkshire, managers can focus on running their businesses: They are not subjected to meetings at headquarters nor financing worries nor Wall Street harassment.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

In our recent HBR article , we argued that financial statements fail to capture the value created by modern digital companies. Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

Sue Decker, Yahoo’s former president, describes how the deal came about and what Yahoo learned from doing business in China. content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere.

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Can Your C-Suite Handle Big Data?

Harvard Business Review

The chief financial officer (CFO) role rose to prominence in the mid -1980’s as pressures for value management and more transparent investor relations gained traction. That leaves important decisions about where the new roles will be located and how to draw new lines of authority.