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Category: Financial leadership

How to Hire a CFO – A Guide For Every Organization

Vikash Dass

Let’s face it: hiring a CFO in 2019 is not straightforward. Now more than ever, the hypergrowth and venture capital principals that have infiltrated mainstream corporate culture have a weighted focus on cash flow and overall financial vision with the nature of these roles including more touch-points and interactions than…

February 4, 2019
Procurement Survey 2017

What You Need to Know Before Becoming a CPO

Dani Hao

In the height of the early 2000s telecommunications boom, Reza Hagel joined Sony & Ericsson during their joint-venture and started as BU Data analyst and Market Intelligence. From there, he became the Mobile Phone Product planner, where he led conceptualization and development to introduce the global market to Sony Ericsson…

July 31, 2018

Here’s Why You Might Not Be Ready for Your Next Investment Round

Dani Hao

April 26, 2018

A New Leader’s Guide to Efficient Budget Management

Dani Hao

Effective and efficient budget management is the cornerstone of a successful business operation. It is close to personal financial management but more complicated due to the size, structure, and short and long-term objectives. It requires planning, commitment, and discipline to plan. It consists of planning and implementation that provides the…

February 27, 2018

The Guide to Becoming a CFO Before Turning 30 — from the Three Guys who did

Nitant Narang

Here is a list of three financial professionals who took matters in their own hands, made a direct impact on their companies’ bottom lines, before, ultimately, becoming CFOs.

July 4, 2017

Calling All CPOs: Here’s How You Can Stand Up To Your CFO

Tony Morris

Recently, while speaking at Oxford University, I attended a talk on the Future of Procurement. I had always felt that Procurement, as an essential function, had been unfairly squeezed under the weight of Finance. Why was it that Procurement seemed to sit under the cover of Finance? Indeed, why do…

January 25, 2017
Before he became Apple's CEO, Tim Cook cut his teeth managing procurement and inventory at Compaq

Procurement & Supply Chain Pros Can Become CEOs, According to These 5 CPOs

Rudy Yuly

If you had started out in any company’s procurement department, the highest position you could aspire to was the chief procurement officer (CPO). And then the Great Recession of 2008 changed everything.

August 29, 2016

10 Tools Highly Effective Managers Use

Brittany Whitmore

Despite their abilities to lead, communicate, and delegate, even the most successful managers in the world can benefit from incorporating new tools and technologies in their companies. While all of these tools stress different objectives—from automating processes to organizing your team—each contains features that can help streamline your processes and…

December 3, 2015
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