How can CFO’s improve data health for future agility and competitiveness?

Data driven decision-making is widely acknowledged as central to organisational agility and the CFO’s strategic remit. Yet, even as the finance function’s analytical capabilities grow, FSN’s research finds that data health has not kept pace. Data health and data analytics are two sides of the same coin, but as data volumes, variety and complexity grow, nagging doubts about data dependability, jeopardises the future of the modern finance agenda as ambitious CFOs seek to leverage more advanced and data-hungry applications such as, advanced forecasting, predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and real-time reporting. So the key question is what organisational and other steps can finance leaders take to embed a more robust and dependable data driven culture, which sets the scene for future agility, decision-making and competitiveness? In this 30-minute webinar Gary Simon, Chief Executive, FSN, will interview David Woodworth, CFO of insightsoftware, an acquisitive global software house and leader in financial and operational reporting, planning and BI tools. David is an accomplished CFO and was previously CFO of Trilliant and M*Modal as well as an investment and operating advisor at Tidewater Equity Partners. David will be sharing his experiences of driving growth using data-driven decision making as a foundation. Gary Simon is Group Publisher of FSN Publishing, he is a graduate of London University, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a Fellow of the British Computer Society with more than 30 years’ experience of implementing management and financial reporting systems. He is the author of four books and a popular independent speaker on market developments.  He was formerly a partner in Deloitte for more than 16 years.