How CFOs Are Leading Transformation and Driving Enterprise Reinvention
SAP Concur's blog cites Accenture data stating 68% of CFOs are driving three or more enterprise-wide transformation initiatives in parallel. The article discusses how CFOs can break down silos by running initiatives in parallel, improve employee experience, and offers three ways to future-proof organizations: scenario-planning capability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. It also recommends starting with areas like expense management that engage employees early.
Impact and considerations
For finance and travel expense managers, the article offers a practical view of CFO-led enterprise transformation, highlighting expense management as a starting point and emphasizing the importance of parallel initiatives and cross-functional collaboration.
Key points
- Aneel Delawalla of Accenture says 68% of CFOs are driving three or more enterprise-wide transformation initiatives in parallel.
- Successful initiatives are not happening serially or in silos but are interconnected and running in parallel.
- Running initiatives in parallel helps compress the timeline for enterprise reinvention.
- Organizations are increasingly focused on differentiating employee experience, and CFOs are part of this effort, including by automating expense processing.
- A new generation of employees expects digital interaction via apps and wants to focus on value creation rather than administrative tasks.
- Paul Carr of Accenture recommends starting with areas like expense management that engage employees early, using pilot projects to gather feedback.
- Three ways to future-proof organizations: scenario-planning capability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Sources and time
- Primary source
- SAP Concur
- Other sources
- 0
- First source publication
- 6 Feb 2023, 17:50
- Page published
- 14 Aug 2026, 08:26
- Last updated
- 6 Feb 2023, 17:50
- Original links
- SAP Concur Blog:How CFOs Are Leading Transformation and Driving Enterprise Reinvention (opens in a new tab)Primary source · en · Published 6 Feb 2023, 17:50