go fast, scale up, or go home: the new cfo growth agenda

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Go fast, scale up… or go home:The new CFO growth agenda

Yet growth looks very different

in a digitally disrupted world.

After eight years of focusing on cost reduction, CFOs are bullish on growth.


M&A is replacing R&D as a means to create value

rapidly. The reality is that CFOs

must act faster than ever before.

But do they have the tools they need to evaluate growth opportunities in a whole new

light?



CFOs have not been focused on growth for years.

For the first time since 2008, more than half of CFOs cite growth rather than cost reduction as

their strategic priority for 2016. This figure more than doubled in just one year.

M&A has topped R&Das the primary growth

engine.

Amid massive industry disruption and investor pressures to create value quickly, the M&A of new products, technologies and talent is increasingly becoming the only way for CFOs to keep pace with growth expectations. While organic growth

through R&D and market expansion remains a priority, M&A provides a faster route to innovation.


CFOs are flying blind in the new growth

agenda.

As the pressure to act fast builds, the risk of failure

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CFOs lack full transparencyinto financial models and data to

evaluate growth opportunities properly:

Inorganic strategies must be addressed in terms of the disruption opportunities

they create, the risk of cannibalization of the existing business and the value of

the intangible assets acquired.

Organic growth strategies need to address the risk of competitive

disruption and the ability to execute at speed.



CFOs who want to achieve sustainable profitable growth

need to:Stop making yesterday’s assumptions. Develop the mindset, tools and analytics required to effectively evaluate alternative organic and inorganic

growth strategies.

Rally around a specific, data-backed plan.

Define the criteria and associated metrics to measure against growth strategy execution and evaluate overall

profitability.

Transform the operating model fearlessly.

Establish the optimal operating model to support growth strategies.

LEARN MOREabout how CFOs can prepare to act as

quickly as the market demands with our full report.

Go fast, scale up… or go home:The new CFO growth agenda


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go fast, scale up, or go home: the new cfo growth agenda

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