Sluggish economic growth, lagging capital spending, and cautious hiring challenge CFOs managing the organization's financial path. Leaders now demand greater insights from data driven decisions. Analytics and big data are as important as treasury concerns and counter-party risk mitigation. Further, a greater number of CFOs now own the IT function and have CIOs reporting to them. This growing and evolving role of the CFO results in a need to understand the impact of disruptive technologies on business models and financial security. Constellation's analysts and research helps CIOs understand the challenges faced by the IT and line of business divide as well as take a pragmatic approach to technology adoption.
The view from the C-suite is increasingly gloomy as executives navigate policy, inflation and the economy that's a reality show with two-week story arcs. It's hard to plan when your conditions change every other day. Yet, technology companies--including a few that barely have revenue--live in a world full of unicorns and rainbows.
Chief financial officers are paring expectations for the economy, revenue, earnings and capital investments for the second quarter as they become more risk averse, according to Deloitte's latest CFO Signals report.
The money being thrown around AI talent and infrastructure is staggering, but the return on investment may be sketchy for longer time frames. What happens if AI demand doesn't deliver triple-digit growth forever?
Clorox said the SAP overhaul is more than just an upgrade and about process and digital transformation. The company is also overhauling its data infrastructure to be more efficient in the future.
