The Digital CFO

The pandemic has changed where we work, but the demands of the business world remain. Finance, increasingly tasked with being innovative and forward-looking, must stay ahead of the curve. Executing on initiatives, serving as a business partner, and providing information and insights all require effective collaboration and communication, yet most of us are no longer spending hours each week in a conference room with a whiteboard. Water cooler chats and ad hoc conversations by the side of a cubicle feel like a relic of the past. We have been inundated with software programs such as Slack, Guru, and Zoom, that aim to solve for some of these challenges- promising to save time, improve productivity, and even eliminate email. Yet the proliferation of these apps means we are often spending more time looking for information or sharing status updates than performing core job responsibilities, let alone going above and beyond to innovate or grow our companies. Many