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Forbes: The New Essential CFO Skillset
June 14, 2021
“Over the last fifteen months, the role of the CFO has become significantly more complex. In fact, according to Deloitte’s recent North American “CFO Signals”survey of CFOs in Q1 2021, more than half of respondent CFOs (54%) reported “having higher demands from their executive/leadership teams since the beginning of the pandemic.””
Forbes: The Power Of Storytelling In The Finance Function
June 8, 2021
“We are in the era of big data and in every organization and in every finance team you will have the opportunity to work with data. You will have to inform, guide and lead your business. I have no doubt that in the role of business partner many CFOs will be responsible for a majority of the data transformations.”
SF Magazine: CFO to CFO: How Finance Leads Change Management
June 7, 2021
“Technology is at the heart of what’s needed to deliver the change. Step back and ask the question, “What is it that is critically important in any business for enabling transformational change from a data and analytics perspective?” The answer would be access to accurate and granular data, along with timely and insightful reporting. Technology today has solutions and tools that allow for the efficient management and processing of the vast data pools that exist across disparate systems.”
CFO Dive: How CFOs' Digital Conservatism Hinders Progress
June 1, 2021
“More than 4 in 5 (84%) of Gartner clients said finance should be ‘digital by default’…Yet when it comes to implementing digital technology, nearly three quarters of CFOs said their teams are too cautious.”
