Financial Excellence with Game Changers, presented by SAP
Game-changing technologies are transformational, exciting, and can move you in amazing new directions. They get you thinking about new ways to scale, compete and grow profitably – driving efficiency for existing finance operations, but also driving insight and transformational change for the entire business. They shake up your status quo. Take your Coffee Break with Game-Changers for our special series on achieving FINANCIAL EXCELLENCE for your company. Learn how you can operate profitably and adapt continuously, to become the savvy innovator and visionary who takes your company across the finish line as you look ahead to the next breakthrough strategy. Financial Excellence with Game Changers, Presented by SAP, on The Business Channel.
Episodes
February 7, 2023 • 55 mins
Ah, taxes! A bit of “humor” on a definitely serious topic for every enterprise:
* Benjamin Franklin: “In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.”
* Bonnie Raitt: “Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet – nobody taxes the sun yet.”
* Arthur C. Clarke: “The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.”
Ok, time to get serious. The E...
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January 17, 2023 • 56 mins
The Buzz 1: “As specialized tools and technology have emerged, the role of CFO has evolved. CFOs of companies large and small need to embrace flexibility, develop global strategies, and shift their focus to look forward rather than back.” (www.teampay.co/insights/cfo-quotes/)
The Buzz 2: “When you are a successful company, you have to fight really hard to make sure you avoid complacency, arrogance, bureaucracy.” (Marianne Lake,...
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December 27, 2022 • 55 mins
The Buzz 1: Most of the countries negotiating a global overhaul of cross-border taxation of multinationals have backed plans for new rules on where companies are taxed and a tax rate of at least 15%… A global minimum corporate income tax of at least 15% could yield around $150 billion in additional global tax revenues annually. 130 countries, representing more than 90% of global GDP, had backed the agreement at the talks. New rules...
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November 29, 2022 • 55 mins
The Buzz 1: Most of the countries negotiating a global overhaul of cross-border taxation of multinationals have backed plans for new rules on where companies are taxed and a tax rate of at least 15%… A global minimum corporate income tax of at least 15% could yield around $150 billion in additional global tax revenues annually. 130 countries, representing more than 90% of global GDP, had backed the agreement at the talks. New rules...
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November 1, 2022 • 55 mins
The Buzz 1: “Purposeful storytelling isn’t show business, it’s good business.” [Peter Guber, CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, co-owner of NBA’s Golden State Warriors and MLB’s LA Dodgers]
The Buzz 2: “Good stories surprise us. They make us think and feel. They stick in our minds and help us remember ideas and concepts in a way that a PowerPoint crammed with bar graphs never can.” [Joe Lazauskas and Shane Snow, co-authors, The Stor...
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October 4, 2022 • 57 mins
The soccer great Pelé [the all-time leading goal scorer for Brazil with 77 goals in 92 games] famously and wisely observed, “No individual can win a game by himself.”
Pelé’s words stand true beyond the soccer pitch. In the business world, they resonate even louder for the Finance function. To bring the entire organization together in Planning and Analysis as well as strategy, Finance needs to adopt a “business partnership” man...
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September 6, 2022 • 56 mins
The Buzz 1: “Sustainability is no longer a nice-to-have extra. It’s a critical piece of the puzzle for companies looking to stay ahead of the competition and protect their bottom lines.[smart.arqlite.com]
The Buzz 2: “For companies focused on ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) efforts, metrics matter…Each industry and organization will have different metrics that are material to their business.” [gobyinc.com]
The Buzz 3:...
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August 9, 2022 • 55 mins
Ah, taxes! A bit of “humor” on a definitely serious topic for every enterprise:
* Benjamin Franklin: “In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.”
* Bonnie Raitt: “Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet – nobody taxes the sun yet.”
* Arthur C. Clarke: “The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.”
Ok, time to get serious. The E...
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July 12, 2022 • 56 mins
The Buzz 1: “As specialized tools and technology have emerged, the role of CFO has evolved. CFOs of companies large and small need to embrace flexibility, develop global strategies, and shift their focus to look forward rather than back.” (www.teampay.co/insights/cfo-quotes/)
The Buzz 2: “When you are a successful company, you have to fight really hard to make sure you avoid complacency, arrogance, bureaucracy.” (Marianne Lake,...
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July 5, 2022 • 56 mins
The Buzz 1: In his 2007 book “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable”, author and former options trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb focuses on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable outlier events—and the human tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events, retrospectively. He calls this the Black Swan theory.
The Buzz 2: “If you ever do have to heed a forecast, keep in mind that its accuracy degrades rapi...
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June 14, 2022 • 56 mins
The Buzz 1: “Tasked with guiding the growth of companies, building digital organizations, and transforming the finance function, CFOs must first identify their objectives and then decide whether they will lead with people, process, or performance.” (HBR Executive Brief: The CFO Agenda: Transforming the Finance Function)
The Buzz 2: “CFOs say that their time on transformations would be best spent on role-modeling new mindsets an...
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May 17, 2022 • 56 mins
The Buzz 1: In his 2007 book “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable”, author and former options trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb focuses on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable outlier events—and the human tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events, retrospectively. He calls this the Black Swan theory.
The Buzz 2: “If you ever do have to heed a forecast, keep in mind that its accuracy degrades ra...
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April 19, 2022 • 55 mins
The Buzz 1: CFOs often perceive cybersecurity to be the responsibility of IT, but as more finance processes run remotely, CFOs need to develop security measures specifically for the finance function and not rely solely on the organization’s blanket security protocols to safeguard financial data. (www.gartner.com)
The Buzz 2: Finance leaders in the midst of leading or co-leading a broader transformation initiative (42% of CFOs, ...
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April 12, 2022 • 55 mins
The Buzz 1: We’ve all heard these 'old saws' and know they're true: “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” “Plan your work and work your plan.”
The Buzz 2: “We don’t hand aircraft pilots 50 pages of Excel reports after they’ve landed the plane, telling them they went to the wrong airport or they ran out of fuel. They have real-time insight into the external environment and the a...
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April 5, 2022 • 55 mins
The Buzz 1: We’ve all heard these 'old saws' and know they're true: “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” “Plan your work and work your plan.”
The Buzz 2: “We don’t hand aircraft pilots 50 pages of Excel reports after they’ve landed the plane, telling them they went to the wrong airport or they ran out of fuel. They have real-time insight into the external environment and the...
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March 22, 2022 • 56 mins
The Buzz: Michael E. Porter at Harvard Business School introduced the concept of a value chain in his book, Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance [2008]. Competitive advantage cannot be understood by looking at a firm as a whole. It stems from the many discrete activities a firm performs in designing, producing, marketing, delivering, and supporting its product.” He adds that it's important to maximize...
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February 22, 2022 • 55 mins
The Buzz: “Data is now more valuable than oil” a popular business sentiment.
* In 2006, British mathematician and Tesco marketing mastermind Clive Humby shouted from the rooftops, “Data is the new oil.”
* Now “Data Isn't The New Oil — Time Is”. (Michael Kershner, founder of ILC)
* Oil has reigned for centuries as one of society’s most valuable resources…But in today’s 'data economy,' it can be argued that data, due to the in...
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January 25, 2022 • 56 mins
The Buzz: Michael E. Porter at Harvard Business School introduced the concept of a value chain in his book, Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance [2008]. Competitive advantage cannot be understood by looking at a firm as a whole. It stems from the many discrete activities a firm performs in designing, producing, marketing, delivering, and supporting its product.” He adds that it's important to maximize...
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December 14, 2021 • 53 mins
The Buzz: The CFO role has expanded beyond financial duties to encompass strategic responsibilities across the company. After closing the books 12 months ago on the extraordinary year that was 2020, which threw unprecedented challenges across mostly unprepared industries and businesses worldwide, we began 2021 with high hopes for the start of a recovery, with the office of Finance having a central role.
Reality check: This opti...
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November 9, 2021 • 54 mins
The Buzz 1: “Change management is a critical skill in today’s c-suite… Change management is a challenge for every organization.” (Dave Sutton, toprightpartners.com)
The Buzz 2: “Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.” (Philip Crosby, 1926–2001, aka “The Fun Uncle of the Quality Revolution”, author: Quality Without Tears and Quality is Free)
The Buzz 3: “Change before you have to.” (Jack Welch, former GE CEO, named ...
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