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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Technology Chief Financial Officer Banking Chief Technology Officer 69

Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

In recent years, many industries have been disrupted by technological change. Barra found an organization that not only had fallen behind the competition but was also largely unresponsive to the market. As one anonymous Fortune 500 CEO shared: My CFO started well. 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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CTO Shaw Short-term Agility 397

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.” Workers who adapt and grow with the organization in a time of accelerated change will be able to launch products and services that meet market needs. Marti Konstant .

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Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Innovation involves trying out new things, making improvements, and seeing what works in the market. However, when they looked at just the difference in how long the CEO and the CFO (the person in charge of the money) plan for the future, it didn’t seem to matter much. This takes time and patience. But there’s a problem.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2018

As Craig’s CFO and CAO, I always appreciated this leadership style. Build great teams In the early dark days as CFO of Footlocker, we had a struggling company that was deeply in debt. Be an engaged listener As a young executive and newly appointed CFO, I was fortunate to work for Jim Hageman.

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CFO Leadership Ethics Long-term 169

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

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. Hartung has spent 23 years as the CFO but his plans to retire from the role and the company have been put on hold as a result of the change in role.

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Positioning COO Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer 52

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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CFO Chief Financial Officer Team Finance 100

CEO Insider

JULY 30, 2023

“You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology, not the other way around.” – Steve Jobs How very true and seemingly evident Steve Job’s observation is.

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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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Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 91

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Mention your thoughts to the VPs of Sales and Marketing as you’d all need to share budget. have a formal meeting with VPs of Sales and Marketing and the head of Technology (the 4 of you make up the foundation of the Buying Decision Team (BDT)) to discuss ideas to move forward and upgrade your site, including bringing in a web design vendor.

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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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Case Study Technology Resistance Project 50

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Recently, in a conversation with the CFO of a blue chip company, I observed an example of the impact of this increased compensation. The CFO replied, "You are getting paid as much a partner in one of the top professional services firms. New Technology There was a time when people thought new technology would lead to more leisure time.

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Health Care CFO Competitive Advantage Outsourcing 132

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. Previous roles include attorney and marketing executive for Union Pacific Railroad, associate and then partner at Jenner & Block in Chicago, and chairman and CEO of an internet company.

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Open-book CFO Learning-by-Doing Audience 93

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).

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8% are held by women (down from 6.9% in the prior year). One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g.,

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Press Release Discount PR Directory 113

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Middle-market businesses often assume they’ll be overlooked by attackers, whether due to a large number of similar companies, or a lack of enticing assets. Andrew Douthwaite has over 17 years of technology experience joining VirtualArmour in 2007 as a senior engineer. Make no mistake: this problem is only getting worse.

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Chief Technology Officer Short-term How To Long-term 74

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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Press Release CEO Discount PR 124

Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

For example, ‘To decide on a marketing plan and determine the next steps for everyone in the group. 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. You first have to determine the purpose of the meeting.

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Press Release Discount PR Magazine 140

The Idolbuster

JANUARY 15, 2013

I heard a cautionary tale from “George” the former VP of marketing at a mid-sized biotechnology company about how a bogus forecast helped propagate a disaster. Product development is always needed to make a new technology robust enough to work consistently in customer hands. I cringed when I heard the story.

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Biotechnology Groupthink CFO Stress 41

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

While marketers strategize heavily around how to help consumers decide what to buy, how much time do they spend thinking about how they will pay? This area of innovation is where mobile payment companies want to play, especially in markets where such technology is less than ubiquitous. Help us understand the two sides of Square.

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CFO Loyalty Technology Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

When Raja Rajamannar became CMO of MasterCard Worldwide in 2013, he moved quickly to transform how the credit card giant measures marketing. But the real power and full potential of data was not being fully realized by marketing. As an ingredient brand, Intel often struggled to link marketing to P&L impact. Inside Intel.

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Finance Marketing P&L ROI 14

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

It’s no wonder, then, that more than 90% of B2B sellers have turned to content marketing to help regain access to buyers in the early stages of the purchase process. The research, involving over 5,000 B2B purchase participants across 12 industries, uncovered three mistakes that undermine firms’ content marketing.

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B2B Content Marketing Consensus 8

CEO Insider

JUNE 5, 2022

Most of the labour market movement we have seen in […]. Everyone who knows me, knows I reject ‘The Great Resignation’ – it’s a million-dollar catch-phrase, but it’s quite dangerously misleading. This is not a great resignation – which suggests that people have made a sudden decision to do something dramatic that we didn’t see coming.

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Magazine Marketing Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 52

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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Technology Metrics Budgeting CIO 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat. If your CMO is making all of your brand decisions there will be h*ll to pay down the road.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Your personal brand is the mark you leave on the world.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The development process continues and we introduce the “Amalgatome” in the middle of 2011 to a narrow market of fifteen primary processors with an annual sales potential of $2.76 Million; not big, but interesting. More valuable than this success is the realization that diamonds are sparkling within our reach.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2014

Imagine combining the brilliant technological advances of today with timeless people skills, and consider the potential of future generations. After working for twenty years in the sales and marketing industries, she founded her consulting business, Protocol Consultants International , in 1992. About the Author.

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Consultative Skills CFO Competitive Advantage 56

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.

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Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

About 30 minutes prior to her weekly one-on-one with the CEO, the chief marketing officer at a multibillion global financial services firm received a cryptic email from him with the subject line “The Trouble with CMOs.” Finally, the CMO began insisting that marketing deliver greater financial accountability.

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CFO CEO Agility Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

With a $25,000 personal investment and a small office in her home, she began aggregating sales leads and aggressively acquiring customers through very traditional marketing means — like yellow page advertisements. Data-Driven Marketing. It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage. The situation was untenable.

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Retail Audience Budgeting Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

But today, acquiring and interpreting customer data inherently must involve both the marketing and IT departments. In fact, recent research [PDF] conducted by the CMO Council, suggests that this process should start with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and the Chief Information Officer (CIO). Find Common Ground.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 9