Over the past couple of weeks we polled senior financial officers to determine their current top three priorities. The top two results highlight the struggle CFOs are facing today. Juggling the need to build solid footings for our platforms with the need to be leading edge in anlytics to deliver more insight to our stakeholders. This struggle is being played out in CFO suites globally.
“The truth is that organizations are run by people, and people run on emotions. Our feelings supply the energy to fuel our pursuit of profit and purpose. They are formidable and universal. They can’t be ignored, yet, to our great detriment, we have long pretended that emotions have no place in the office.”
Enjoy this series of shorts on Metrics from Jim.
As Leslie and I watched a sunset in Maui, the sky produced endless patterns and hues. Everywhere I looked there was a riot of color, swirling and changing so fast that I struggle to describe it, let alone remember it.
Hiten Keshave, CFO at PRP Solution in Johannesburg, talks with CFO.University about the challenges he faced and triumphs he realized in an amazing finance transformation journey he undertook at PRP over the last two years. His practical insight and proven outcomes will help you develop the map for your finance transformation. Click on Read More… below to view the video. Learn more about Hiten here.
This is our fourth and last article of the four-part series. So far, we have discussed the birth of Next Generation Finance, the Roadmap to implement an analytics culture, and the Mindset aspirations to decision making. In this article, we conclude bytaking the temperature on where Finance is on its journey towards becoming world class Strategic Partners.
