Four Faces of the CFO - Catalyst | Consulting | Strategy & Operations

The Catalyst is an agent for change, focused on establishing a value attitude throughout the organization. The Catalyst gains business alignment to identify, evaluate and execute strategies, and serves as a business partner to other decision makers including business unit leaders, the chief information officer, and sales and marketing leaders. The Catalyst establishes a structure of enterprise accountability for results, drives enterprise execution and gains acceptance from business management as the organization's catalyst.

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Definition
Stimulate behaviors across the organization to achieve strategic and financial objectives

Resources:

Finance Transformation in the Global Corporation
Real-life examples of how finance transformation can provide opportunities to improve strategies, operations, and drive business performance.

Different Paths to One Truth: Finance Brings Value Discipline to Strategy Execution
How can your finance function increase its contribution to strategy execution?

Simplifying Your Business
Reinvigorating profitable growth through business simplification.

It's 2008: Do You Know Where Your Talent Is?
Why acquisition and retention strategies don't work.

Breathing Lessons (How CFOs Can Thrive Under Pressure)
Our seventh book in the Straight Talk Series is dedicated to the CFO, who, more than ever, faces mounting pressures for performance and accountability – and whose turnover rate has never been higher.

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Federal Financial Management Solutions Center
The Deloitte Federal Financial Management Solutions Center provides innovative, practical solutions for the Federal Chief Financial Officers' (CFO) most pressing financial management and financial transformation challenges.