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CFO Journal: CFOs Weigh Investing in Supply Chain Resilience

“Many technological tools can help boost resilience, but companies should find those that best suit their needs. Some CFOs may decide they would benefit from real-time visibility into inventory levels. Others may start using blockchain to track products or begin leveraging predictive analytics to model different scenarios.”

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CFO Magazine: CFO Leadership: Navigating Volatility While Aiming for Growth

“Data from CFO’s recent survey found few finance chiefs judge leadership skills or industry knowledge as one of the top two attributes most important in candidates. Many CFOs focus on delegating a large portion of their accounting and financial tasks to those with skills in accounting and data analysis.”

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SF Magazine: CFO to CFO: Staying the Strategic Course in Crisis

“Data analytics is critical to understanding the business at any point in time and very helpful in terms of being able to develop your pandemic response, stay ahead of trends, understand what your short-term forecast should be, and develop the longer-term forecasts.”

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CFO Journal: Automated Financial Forecasting: Upgrading Talent Models

“Functional finance expertise alone is not enough. To architect a finance function to achieve continuous forecasting, it is critical for the CFO to instill a bias for data-based decision making, continuous improvement of data and predictive models, and a passion for technology enablement.”

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