Posts Tagged “CFO”

Is the CFO part of the problem?

by jed simms on July 8, 2009

I recently gave a draft business case to a CFO. He immediately thumbed through to see what the cost of the project was. “Aren’t you interested in the value?” I asked. “No, I don’t believe benefits claims!” he replied. In (…)

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True value

by jed simms on April 15, 2008

A CFO recently disputed that he was not getting the value expected from his projects. He pointed to a zero failure rate (ie all projects formally approved had been completed) and benefits locked into future budgets. So we dug a (…)

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