From Historian to Soothsayer: How CFOs Can Future-Ready Their Organisations in the Age of Complexity

In recent years, the role of financial leaders has evolved from historian to soothsayer, and yet CFOs don’t have a crystal ball to predict the future. Whether it’s optimising operations and upping productivity or accelerating growth and addressing sustainability, today’s CFOs are being asked to drive business reinvention and navigate an overwhelming number of complex decisions. It’s “to the point where 68% of CFOs are driving three or more enterprise-wide transformation initiatives in parallel,” says Aneel Delawalla, who leads Accenture’s CFO and enterprise value strategy practice.

With the increasing weight of large-scale organisational decisions resting on their shoulders, how can CFOs rethink the ways they approach business challenges and productively and proactively guide their business through transformation? How should they reassess and reimagine their decision-making to activate change more effectively? And how can they maximise the effectiveness of their strategic decision-making to better navigate today’s fast-paced and complex business environment, and better ready their organisations for the challenges ahead?

In this episode of the SAP Concur Conversations podcast, Aneel Delawalla, Managing Director of Accenture Strategy, CFO & Enterprise Value, and Paul Carr, Accenture’s HXM Ecosystem Lead for Solutions, explore how CFOs can make better, faster, and more strategic decisions that will future-ready their organisations and set the stage for success.