Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

In recent years, many industries have been disrupted by technological change. Stakeholders and shareholders alike expect businesses to make a positive impact on the big challenges our planet faces, such as climate change, redistribution of wealth, and more equitable ways of operating and performing.

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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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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. Step 4: Operations alignment. originally an American direct broadcast satellite service provider from California.

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CTO Shaw Short-term Agility 397

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

The new CEO at Chipotle formerly held the position of the Chief Operating Officer before being asked to act as the interim leader. 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. Now, the position has been made permanent.

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Positioning COO Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer 52

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. Coding, budgeting, and marketing operations are examples. Hire a Chief Future Officer (CFO).

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Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Leaders of small and medium size businesses (SMBs) often think their size lets them operate under the radar, as less attractive targets to bad guys. 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 How would your CFO or CIO handle this?

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 22, 2018

But more CEOs rarely understand the true position of their CHROs, let alone giving them the necessary backup to operate in the required capacity. The HR is supposed to be a true partner to the CEO, just like the CFO. This breeds dissatisfaction of CHRO roles and HR functions in general. That’s absolutely wrong.

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CEO CFO McKinsey Human Resources 63

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

They write: “Just because the business world has always operated one way doesn’t mean it should keep operating that way. ” 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. shared Work is Broken.

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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). Compliance.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

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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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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

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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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CFO Loyalty Technology Definition 8

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. By the end of 2010, we have a prototype adaptation of our Whizard trimmer for tissue processing operating with the original customer, but we know that the tool is unsatisfactory in many ways.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

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. CFOs of these companies themselves admit that they cannot justify their market capitalizations based on traditional metrics.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365. Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors. Getting the CFO on board is key. CFO Tim Olson of ThedaCare , a healthcare system in Wisconsin, went through a similar conversion. Then I became an advocate. Now I know that.".

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Finance CFO Budgeting Operations 13

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

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

APRIL 13, 2012

Many people assume it's all about moving to a "pay-as-you-go" (PAYG) model and while this is certainly a big piece of it, it also involves operating versus capital expenses, subscriptions to services, and customers paying for outcomes (not technology). Why should a toy or cosmetics company own and operate multiple data centers?

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CFO Operations Budgeting Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

If I were the CFO of a manufacturing company and was asked by the board for my manufacturing capacity utilization and I said I didn’t know or that it was only 40%, I’d probably get released to ‘pursue other opportunities.’ Digital technology should be freeing us up to be more innovative and productive.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

They’re essentially asking the company to take the cash it has generated through its business operations and spend it on something with an uncertain future return. Everyone always wants new equipment — new computers or other hot technologies. The two founding partners were both engineers who loved technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2011

How do they adopt an intelligent-store strategy that incorporates associates, shoppers, changing technology, new consumer behaviors, and the store itself? Our shopper in aisle three would need the store's Wi-Fi network and IT ecosystem to support the technology on his or her mobile device. But many retailers seem a bit overwhelmed.

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Retail Attrition CIO CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

In the case of Rohm and Haas this process began in earnest in 1985 with the appointment of a Greek national, Dr. Basil Vassilou, to head our operations in Europe; followed by a Cuban, Henri Martinez, heading our Latin American operations starting in 1988; an Indian American (myself) heading up Asia Pacific operations in 1993.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Even what appears to be a small investment risk can turn into a big one, especially when information technology comes into play. However, cash flow from operations had shifted from positive to negative, the company’s cash pile was dwindling, and the new product would demand R&D investment. Forecasting acumen.

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CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

They''re using these tool and technologies to add value to existing processes or, indeed, to create new "just-in-time" processes (and programs) that the C-suite and other senior managers had never envisioned. observed that technology had fundamentally changed how America''s special operations command managed its special forces warriors.

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Media Power CIO Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

At Hartwell Pacific, the global metal recycling company I founded in 1993 and exited in 2008, I was operating factories in six different cities in four countries, so developing an effective global management system was critical. After lunch we would take a tour of that country's operations. We tried to be as inclusive as possible.

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P&L Globalization CFO Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

First, directors face a real challenge in making sure that protection and alignment of key governance and risk management issues doesn’t crowd out equally important dialogue around strategy and operations. I’m not against benchmarking and norming.

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Benchmarking Company Short-term Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

To enhance financial flexibility, companies have been retaining unprecedented amounts of cash on their balance sheets, calling it "strategic" cash to distinguish it from the "operating" cash that is needed to run the business. high technology or pharmaceutical) that are investing in projects with uncertain long-range payoffs.

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Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. ” Immelt elevated marketing and digital media when he promoted Beth Comstock to vice chair, while other positions, including that of the CFO, are at the senior vice president level.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

Coordinating the infrastructure, technology, and messaging in a way that appears seamless and fluid to the customer is, to be blunt, a logistical nightmare. If it’s all about the operations then you lose sight of the customer. Based on this data, operations recommended marketing cease actively trying to acquire these customers.

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COO Planning Metrics Call Center 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

The phenomenon of fast-track CEO succession appears to be most prominent in the retail, technology, media, and telecommunications sectors—all of which are particularly affected by disruptive business models and new competitors. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend.

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CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

I met the team at Albert (formerly known as Adgorithms) while I was doing research into artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven marketing technologies for my book, Marketing, Interrupted. As a result, the conversion rate from Facebook campaigns managed by Albert increased by 750% in Albert’s first year of operation.

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