IT financial planning for 2022 is analogous to navigating uncharted waters, but IT initiatives remain critical to business success even as staff shortages affect IT strategy. With business as usual still out of reach, and financial planning more…

Budget planning and approval can get tense when goals and strategies are misaligned — which is business as usual between IT and finance executives. CIOs are wary of CFO pushback, and CFOs are skeptical about the value of IT initiatives. When finance…

In the past, the CFO has acted as stop gap for IT projects deemed outside the scope — and budget — of the enterprise. But the recent rapid acceleration of digital transformation has brought IT and finance together to create a better budget process…

If you’re an IT professional, the chaos and disruption of the past two years may have you approaching next year’s budget planning with something akin to dread. Digital technology has more than proven its worth in the scramble to make remote work…

Who says you can’t teach an old CFO new accounting models? Last year, budgeting was an exercise in winging it. But reopening demands a return to more concrete budgeting practices. That doesn’t mean a return to pre-COVID budgetary processes. What do…

Despite the tremendous disruptions COVID-19 had on our economy and American businesses of all sizes, it has had less of a dampening effect on enterprise innovation initiatives than you might have imagined. Business leaders have remained firm on the…

It’s astonishing how a tiny virus has reshaped our workforce, economy, and social norms. COVID-19 has shifted entire paradigms from accepted best practices — and the pandemic isn’t done with us. While we don’t know yet if our shifts in IT tactics…

2020 will be written as the year of firsts for most companies. Unprecedented changes challenged chief financial officers (CFOs) as a global pandemic put a dampening effect on the bottom line of American businesses, big and small. With 2021 just…