Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

They seek to change the system to change the behavior. It is not surprising to see the Aspen institute take a systems view to addressing the problem. The Aspen Institute provides some sensible considerations for addressing the larger system. Transparency: strengthen investor disclosures.

Short-term 28

Short-term Long-term Deming Management 28

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Chief Financial Officer: “We should enter the Italian and German markets because we can generate $XMM in incremental profits.”. Chief Marketing Officer: “We should enter the Italian and German markets because we can increase our European market share by X%.”. The second component of the Core Idea is the button.

Metrics 50

Metrics CFO Chief Financial Officer Marketing 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

He went on to become the president and CEO of Children’s National Health System in Washington, DC and recently published a memoir, Healing Children: A Surgeon’s Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine. How can the health care system adapt to bring that kind of specialized experience to more families?

CEO 8

CEO System Innovation Chief Financial Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

What receives far less attention is that, more and more in our increasingly complex, volatile, and fully-globalized business world, the effectiveness of such action depends on a powerful partnership between the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the General Counsel (GC).

CFO 8

CFO Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

To be sure, organizations need financial targets, and when they are under severe pressure, slashing "overhead" is far faster and easier. Consider ThedaCare , a healthcare system in Wisconsin, which eliminated its budgeting process in 2010. A performance management system needs to include both financial and process improvement targets.

Budgeting 11

Budgeting Chief Financial Officer Cost CFO 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

So we’ve arrived at an unorthodox system that serves our needs perfectly. We pay a standard rate of $25 per hour, regardless of whether you’re applying to be an engineer or the chief financial officer. So it’s a system we plan to keep utilizing. It’s all about your output.

Chief Financial Officer 11

Chief Financial Officer Decentralization Engineering Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The chief information security officer (CISO) or chief information officer (CIO) reports the technical vulnerabilities that his or her team has successfully remediated. The chief risk officer (CRO) looks at the problem in terms of risk transfer and cyber insurance purchased.

Metrics 8

Metrics CIO Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

For example, in setting strategy at a large multinational, the CEO has to navigate among different politico-economic systems that range from state capitalism to government-centric industrial policy nations to market-centric mixed economies. In most major U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The challenge is to understand the competition and adapt how you run your business — your mindset, your approach to strategy, your resource allocation, and your organization's social system. As Keith Sherin, GE's chief financial officer, explained, "This is where the growth is.

Globalization 15

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

Andrew Fastow, the former chief financial officer of Enron, recently completed a six-year prison sentence for his part in the scandalous deception that hid Enron's financial troubles from investors. He told himself his actions were systemic, it is the way the game is played. All who cared to know knew.

Chief Financial Officer 11

Chief Financial Officer Finance Banking Class 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

There would be no certainty that the hardware, software, and services of these two worlds would be interoperable, and, once a market is locked into one or other of the systems, it would be difficult for users to switch. Yuji Sakai/Getty Images. One scenario is that the current U.S. technology on U.S.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer NGO Technology Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

At the annual conference of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners late last month, former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, who served six years in prison for his part in Enron''s deceptions, offered an explanation. Enron owned the largest natural gas pipeline system in the U.S.,

Price 8

Price Credit Rating Finance Chief Financial Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The challenge is to understand the competition and adapt how you run your business — your mindset, your approach to strategy, your resource allocation, and your organization's social system. As Keith Sherin, GE's chief financial officer, explained, "This is where the growth is.

Globalization 8

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Some sort of glitch in the payments system meant that the initial invoice wasn’t paid on schedule, at which point the problem disappeared into a big black hole. At no point in this 20-month period was there any dispute about whether my small business (my wife and I) was owed the money. And yet somehow they couldn’t pay us.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Chief Financial Officer Delegation Globalization 8