At what rate is industry appointing new CFOs? The answer is key to understanding and evaluating the CFO movement risk at your organization. Alternately, if you are looking to bring on board a CFO, this is useful in designing the specs. We are pleased to launch what we believe to be the country’s first CFO Movement Index, which maps the CFO movement rate in the quarter, within the ET500 companies.

Key Questions to have answers to, before you hire a CDO
A Chief Digital Officer (CDO) can be the difference between grasping emerging opportunities and coming out stronger, and, struggling to survive. The role of the CDO itself is new and companies’ ability to maximize leverage from CDO is mixed. So, what are the 4 questions for which you must have answer before you set out to hire a CDO?

Economies and businesses across the world, across sectors, are facing huge distress due to Covid-
19 and from all appearances, this impact will likely last at least a few quarters. It is clear that firms
are in for tough times, a survival threat for many and a chance to re-arrange the industry league
tables for others – how can the CFO play a super-charged role in the period to come?

For firms to survive the next 12-24 months, and emerge stronger, they will have to be agile and
nimble to capture emerging opportunities, as well as ‘meanly lean’ to ride out the financial stress.
Digital technologies can enable both agility and reduced cost base. These technologies are already
‘out there’ but require a dedicated, full-time CDO to stitch a cohesive approach. And, NOW is the
time to on-board a CDO.

CFO Transitions is one of our core specializations. In 2017, we analysed trends in CFO Transitions by analysing 200 such transitions, focusing on the individuals who made the transition. For this 2020 edition, we have changed the focus to firms and expanded our search to include all private companies in BS1000, totalling to 850+ companies in this study. It is our pleasure to share the insights on the changing trends.

Nearly 44% of the 200 large companies that we analysed from BS1000 have a separate strategy function. Larger the firm, the more likely that there is a strategy function.

Having a separate strategy function can be impactful, but when is it useful and productive to invest in a separate strategy function?

In this first part of a two-part series, we explore how you should approach this issue.

So, you are excited to have landed the dream job and are waiting to get on board your new employer soon. Great.

Have you given thought to how you will achieve a wow performance with your dream employer? You should, as our research suggests.

that less than 30 to 40% of the new hires manage a ‘wow’ – remaining are living on borrowed time.

Our research shows that success in hiring leaders from the external market has been a mixed bag for corporates. Yet new leaders from outside the organization infuse fresh perspectives and are crucial – so, what can organizations do to get the external hiring right? In this paper, we present our findings and best practices that can help to improve hiring outcomes.

Digital is the new kid on the horizon that promises a new wave of transformation. Firms are excited yet wary – what exactly is digital? Can it truly impact business? What does it entail to launch the firm on the path of digitalization? In this first part of a 3-part series, we explore what digital is, and, why you should consider digital seriously.