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McKinsey & Company: Solving the Paradox of Growth and Profitability in E-Commerce
April 11, 2022
“Retailers that overemphasize e-commerce revenues could actually be damaging their prospects. Indeed, digital growth is not enough; only profitable digital growth will create value.”
CFO Journal: Moving Enterprise Business Planning Into Action
April 8, 2022
“CFOs are uniquely positioned to lead the coordination needed for an EBP program, given their experience partnering with operations, manufacturing, sales and marketing, engineering, the back office, and external allies. A key component of any EBP program is establishing consistent and current data from all sources—another goal that most CFOs share—that can drive advanced scenario modeling and predictive analytics to produce timely and more accurate plans.”
Forbes: Hatching Innovation In Sustainability And Tech: A Q&A With Rembrandt’s CFO
April 8, 2022
“Information technology and finance/accounting are very complementary. One often hears that a finance/accounting department is only as good as the data provided. The same is true for good IT departments. IT provides systems and tools for both data collection and data consumption. Accounting is the number one consumer of IT data. It is very important for the IT team to provide means to collect and maintain data used to inform the business profitability.”
Harvard Business Review: In Uncertain Times, Big Companies Need to Take Care of Their Suppliers
April 7, 2022
“The consequences of past buying practices for supply chain resilience are clear. By driving production offshore, companies have ended up with far-flung supply lines subject to logistics disruptions and huge cost escalations. Transactional behavior toward domestic suppliers has weakened them, and in industries such as autos and aerospace, it has driven consolidation. This ultimately weakens OEMs’ bargaining power, while reducing the diversity of their supply base.”
