In this issue of CFO Insights, we offer an approach for measuring trust across different operating domains—one that can help leaders identify their organization’s potential sources of a trust breakdown or areas where building trust proactively can help create a competitive advantage.
A quarterly publication that offers insights from Deloitte economists on trends and events shaping Canadian and international economies such as economic growth, consumer spending, business investment, trade, market activity, interest rates, and commodity prices.
Many CFOs are wrestling with inflation. Industries continue to converge and consolidate, with M&A activity at an all-time high. Globally, there are calls for new forms of regulation, particularly to address how changing technology is impacting businesses and society. Moreover, the increasing instability of the earth’s climate and the political landscape have put a premium on the ability to pivot and transform. Throughout these developments, CFOs have served as catalysts across the enterprise, creating positive change and adding value. Increasingly, they also are operating as the heart of the enterprise, not just functional leaders. The CFO Agenda aims to help CFOs avoid missing a beat.
Can Canada meet its reconciliation and climate action commitments? We talked to Jason Rasevych, partner and national leader of Indigenous Services practice to find out.
In the next evolutionary step of digital technology, interactions are expected to get more virtual. The metaverse is a hot topic of discussion in technology circles, and a growing number of consumers and consumer brands are getting on board. Some major companies are placing big bets on the metaverse, or unlimited reality, to fundamentally change the way people interact. As a result, the metaverse is escalating quickly to a topic for boards to address as they consider their companies’ growth and talent strategies, opportunities, and risk profiles.
In this issue of CFO Insights, we’ll explore the underlying conditions that foster resilience, the core evidence-based practices for building this trait, and the vast leadership implications of stretching personal potential.
Widespread supply chain disruptions throughout 2021 have delayed and reduced sales, increased manufacturing costs, created unexpected excess production capacity, and resulted in customer disappointments1—all of which have driven volatility in financial results and reduced the reliability of forecasts and projections. Finance leaders consider supply chain sourcing with an eye to the future.
On the surface, an agile approach can appear as if entrenched company structures have been discarded, in favor of team-based improvisation. But agile, it turns out, is built atop its own system—of ideas. In this issue of CFO Insights, we consider how CFOs can better enable agile approaches to transformation, as well as maximize such benefits as adapting fast, iterating as needed, and nurturing collaborative teams.
Central banks are increasingly pondering whether to issue their own digital currencies to the general public, so-called retail central bank digital currency (CBDC). The majority of IMF member countries are actively evaluating CBDCs, with only a few having issued CBDCs or undertaken extensive pilots or tests. This paper shines the spotlight on the handful of countries at the frontier in the hope of identifying and sharing insights, lessons, and open questions for the benefit of the many countries following in their footsteps.
The Global Risks Report 2022 presents the results of the latest Global Risks Perception Survey (GRPS), followed by an analysis of key risks emanating from current economic, societal, environmental and technological tensions. The report concludes with reflections on enhancing resilience, drawing from the lessons of the last two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Consumer exposure to digital incidents is significantly increasing, driving a disconnect between consumer and organization confidence in digital use. Is digital transformation happening too fast for consumers, or are the priorities and processes organisations put in place to protect consumers against digital risks going unseen? Our Global Digital Risk Survey 2022 'See the Unseen' explores everything from autonomous vehicles and banking apps, to customer services and fake content, to identify what business leaders should prioritise, and the vitality of an organisation-wide approach to build confidence in digital technologies.
Consumer exposure to digital incidents has increased significantly over the last two years. The Global Digital Risk Survey 2022 report, ‘See the Unseen’, explores everything from autonomous vehicles and banking apps, to customer services and fake content, to identify what business leaders should prioritize, and how they should approach building organization-wide confidence in digital technologies.
