Tag: People

Change Management, Innovation, Leadership

Is your forecasting mindset killing CFO innovation – almost certainly!

In an office somewhere in the world…

Data Scientist: Yo accountant dude! Why do you never forecast your miscellaneous revenue line?

Accountant: It’s miscellaneous, you can’t forecast that line.

DS: But dude, it’s 1% of your total revenue, that’s gotta impact the business and your forecast sensitivity, right?

AC: That line has no owner, you can’t forecast that line.

DS: I got exciting news dude, I can predict this line for you and be 75% accurate. That’s gotta be better than putting in a big fat zero? <holds up hand for a high five> Continue reading “Is your forecasting mindset killing CFO innovation – almost certainly!” →

Change Management, Leadership

Learning “digital” should NOT be done digitally

By Christopher Argent, Founder, Generation CFO

Are you time poor, but burning to learn something new?  Have you bought a new educational book, only to find it on the shelf a year later, a chapter read?  Have you signed up to a “must learn” eLearning module, that remains dormant in your inbox?

Finding the time is one of the main reasons why eLearning has been a massive hit with time-poor professionals, as digital flexibility is helping people to find the time and the eLearning market that delivers the content is certainly having its day, as it is estimated to be worth $200bn by 2024* Continue reading “Learning “digital” should NOT be done digitally” →

Change Management, Digital Operations, Value Creation

BQs – What’s your automation risk plan?

By Christopher Argent, Founder, GenerationCFO

Robotic process automation and the development of intelligent automation (overlaying machine learning and artificial intelligence) projects are becoming commonplace in companies big and small. Continue reading “BQs – What’s your automation risk plan?” →