Today's finance officers must strategically plan in three key areas for future endeavors
“In the next five years, game-changing technologies will transform every business process, including how we sell, market, communicate, collaborate, educate, train and innovate.” This statement by Daniel Burrus, futurist, business strategist and author ofmay startle some, but I think his assessment of the future for accounting and finance is accurate.
I was reminded of all this during the IMA Annual Conference and Expo this year, which featured a session by renowned futurist and NYU Professor Amy Webb, founder of the. Webb’s expertise is in helping organizations think differently about future trends and what they need to do to address them.
Any of these issues could fundamentally disrupt a company’s supply chain, workforce or consumer base within an extremely short period of time, rendering any projections based on current profits and consumer growth expectations utterly moot. Webb challenged finance and accounting professionals to consider what macro trends could impact their performance, and to more actively engage in anticipatory thinking, factoring in the unexpected to their short- and long-term planning.
The unexpected as a category is rather broad, so rather than discuss all the possible singularities, I want to focus on three key areas where CFOs will have to concentrate their powers of prediction: technology, risk management and sustainability.
The impacts of technologies like these are manifold and finance teams will have to quickly weigh what the cost of implementation may be .
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