N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

The C-Suite Executives Role in Business Strategy The C-Suite executive team comprises the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Operating Officer (COO), and other high-ranking ‘chief’ executives.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

This series’s final part will balance needs with compromises, float tangential opportunities to expand horizons, and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘unicorn’ management candidate. The CFO candidate might get by with only a broad sector experience in manufacturing, finance, or technology.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In the business world today, nearly two-thirds of Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) say their companies are focused on automating tasks that employees usually handle. This insight comes from The CFO Survey, a collaboration between Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the Federal Reserve Banks of Richmond and Atlanta.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 20, 2021

If you’ve been in the market for new business insight technology, such as a financial services analytics solution, the benefits of these are obvious. Promises made by your technology partner, such as increased analytics capabilities and improved compliance with regulators, are probably at the top of your mind.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

In recent years, many industries have been disrupted by technological change. As one anonymous Fortune 500 CEO shared: My CFO started well. Sign 1: A change in the business environment The most obvious signal that it’s time for a change is a large-scale shift in the business environment. Take, for instance, the automotive industry.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 23, 2023

In an earnings call on Tuesday, UPS CFO Brian Newman reported that the company decreased compensation and benefits by $205 million in the second quarter by eliminating 2,500 managerial positions annually. At a Tuesday earnings call, Donald Bassell, CFO of ARKO, a convenience store operator, reported that personnel costs had increased 6.5%

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Vrio Corp has been committed to following market trends and increasing its value proposition through transformation: investing in technology and content aligned with the consumers’ habits, emphasizing the next generation. Daniel Roldán Chiffoleau is the Chief Transformation Officer at DirecTV Latin America (Vrio Corp.),

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

” It helps prevent problems between the people who own the company (shareholders) and the people who run it (management). “Subordinate managers run the company day to day. One reason might be that CFOs don’t often become CEOs later in their careers, so they might not have big long-term goals.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

If you don’t solve the skills riddle with agility, curiosity, and smart technology capabilities, your organization could fade from existence.” When I was a technology marketing exec in 2009, I heard the words nurture marketing. Digital transformation managers. Hire a Chief Future Officer (CFO). Marti Konstant .

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics. In the days after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), a chief executive cannot hide behind the acts of the CFO. If your CFO is doing something financially shady, SOX says that he is either doing it with you or to you.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In his previous position, Boatwright had reported to the CEO directly about the specifics of managing the 125,000 employees and 3,600 restaurants. According to Chipotle, he greatly contributed to the strategy and growth of the business and also led the shift in integrating new technology into the restaurants.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Guest Post By: Rania Stewart, senior product manager with Peoplefluent.com. Take a quick scan of the managers and company leaders. 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.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

As technology has evolved over time from main frame to client server to the Internet and now the cloud, the impact of a new Tech Debt 2.0 CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The HR is supposed to be a true partner to the CEO, just like the CFO. Predicting outcomes means weighing how balanced the manager is with respect to workload and opportunities, how fast he can scale up into digitization, and how flexible he can handle situations during a bad economy. That’s absolutely wrong.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Bernd shares: “As a manager, you need to know how to give feedback. ” CFO Jon Verbeck gives us a major pointer for increasing our profits, and helps leaders understand these important elements of running a department or business. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted 6 Tips for New Managers.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 26, 2011

In those days I often thought that corporate managers and professionals were lazy. Professionals and managers were working 35 to 40 hours per week. Today I am amazed at how hard corporate managers and professionals work. The CFO replied, "You are getting paid as much a partner in one of the top professional services firms.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2011

In order for any change to occur – whether it’s a decision to purchase a product, or an implementation to add new technology – whatever touches the ultimate solution must buy-in to the change. In 1983, in London, I started up a body shop/recruitment company to support the ‘new’ language and ’4GL’ support technology called Focus.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2015

These terms define a specific set of sequenced actions buyers take to enable internal consensus and change – change management issues, if you will – rather than define steps that address needs or vendor/solution choice which come later and are the focus of sales. meet with CFO (manages the Tech department). meet with BDT.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Commentators and researchers have focused on the crucial role of the CEO in leading effective corporate action to promote high performance, high integrity , and sound risk management. This critical alliance needs and deserves much greater analysis and application.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The ongoing federal investigation of three Equifax C-suite managers for insider trading arose due to alleged stock dumping prior to the revelation of the company’s catastrophic cyber-attack. Andrew Douthwaite has over 17 years of technology experience joining VirtualArmour in 2007 as a senior engineer. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

He was President, CFO, General Counsel, and the second largest shareholder of PDS Tech prior to its purchase by AKKA Technologies. Most of all, be patient and relaxed. Be like water. About the Author. Cash Nickerson is chairman of AKKA North America’s Business Unit.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

I think you’ll find that your view of the world will change dramatically when you rely upon your own observations, as opposed to what you read in a management report, or what you hear third or fourth hand in a meeting. The arrogant CEO doesn’t value the input of line and staff management.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help even out the uneven.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g., which is down 4% from 30% in the prior year.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2023

The ban would would elevate the cybersecurity conversation to the CEO, the CFO, and the board, and potentially end the practice of scapegoating CISOs when a breach happens. The White House is considering a ban on ransomware payments, which could change the chief information and security officer (CISO) job.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Companies love to stretch out their investments in existing technology as long as possible, a policy whose faulty logic I recently rediscovered in my role as CIO. That's because, like many CIOs, I hate buying technology that loses a significant part of its value as soon as it's delivered.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2018

The recruitment, interviewing, hiring, and on-boarding of even one new employee is a time-intensive process every manager takes seriously. Becoming a Manager. 5 Things New Managers Should Focus on First. New Managers Need a Philosophy About How They’ll Lead. New Managers Don’t Have to Have All the Answers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. Because no one is managing the store. At the same time, technology budgets are static or contracting, and non-IT execs want more attention to cost-cutting.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

She’s taking over the seat formerly occupied by Apple’s former CFO, John Anderson, who resigned amidst a stock options backdating scandal. Andrea Jung was an executive vice president at Neiman-Marcus before she joined Avon in 1996. Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007.Â

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Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

If you learn to plan, structure, and participate in meetings effectively, you will be able improve your own time management and productivity as well as that of other participants. It’s not rocket science, but it is surprising how many CFO’s and managers don’t stop to evaluate the effectiveness of their meetings.

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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

JUNE 24, 2013

This area of innovation is where mobile payment companies want to play, especially in markets where such technology is less than ubiquitous. For the uninitiated, Square offers two technologies — a card reader for merchants to use, which is called Register, and the other a mobile interface for customers to pay, which is called Wallet.

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The Idolbuster

JANUARY 15, 2013

Product development is always needed to make a new technology robust enough to work consistently in customer hands. He was a Scorpion , a “visionary” who felt that the technology should sell itself. Bad management? I cringed when I heard the story. But “ready for customers” is exactly what the CEO wanted to hear.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The answer involves radically reframing one of the mainstays of the C-suite — the role of the CFO. It’s no longer adequate or acceptable for CFOs to simply focus on managing the financial risks of a company. Some CFOs are working with their CISOs and CIOs to actually model their cyber exposure gap.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly. Traditional companies therefore rely on two strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

If you are sitting in a job interview and hear the words "dotted line reporting," you have just encountered the world of matrix management. These relationships occur frequently in jobs with internal customers, like human resources generalists, facility managers, or business systems analysts in information technology.

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