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CFO Journal: Take Five: Steps to Building a Strategically Adaptive Enterprise
February 24, 2022
“Companies characterized by nimbleness, scalability, optionality, and stability can respond opportunistically to environmental shifts and navigate periods of disruption and crisis better than their competitors. Enterprises with a high capacity for change more consistently achieve superior financial performance and valuations compared with others in their industry. Superior capabilities for change enable exponential enterprises to adapt advantageously despite challenging operating conditions, sustaining their ability to win and to deliver value to stakeholders.”
CFO Dive: Supply Chains Top CFO Business Risk Concerns
February 22, 2022
“To keep costs down and meet those high customer expectations, CFOs call accurate demand and inventory management their most important supply chain priority. The goal is to leverage technology to replace the just-in-time inventory approach that has been causing bottlenecks this past year with something similarly cost-effective but more resilient.”
CFO Journal: Got Data? Now Create the Right Operating Model
February 18, 2022
“Companies embracing an ED&A operating model have the opportunity to unite the enterprise around data and make everyone aware of and accountable for its strategic value. By eliminating data silos and introducing data governance, they give the enterprise transparency and access to high-quality and expanded datasets that enable use cases previously considered out of reach. Data and analytics become available as a service through modular platforms grounded in a common data architecture. Instead of just hindsight, data starts delivering foresight.”
CFO Dive: 4 CFO Scenarios – and Fixes – for Inflation
February 17, 2022
““Part of taking the scenario-based view is making sure that leaders — CFOs and other leaders — are prepared no matter what future comes to pass,” according to Andrew Blau, a managing director at Deloitte. “We stress the importance of being prepared for all the scenarios.””
