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CFO to CEO
This is an excellent article from the Wall Street Journal (27th June). Particularly within the Financial Services sector there has been an increased trend of CFOs moving into the CEO role. Graham Beale – CEO of Nationwide, David Nish of Standard Life and Andrew Moss, CEO of Aviva – would be UK examples of this. […]
How to create an outstanding CFO
This article draws out the strategic nature of the CFO role. In the financial services sector, and life insurance in particular, which is a very complex to explain financially, the ability of the CFO to relate the strategy of the business to analysts and market stakeholders through the numbers is critical to competitive success and […]
Corporate governance divides opinion
An article in the Financial Times reports on executive attitudes to EU-wide guidelines on corporate governance conducted by law firm Allen & Overy. Well done Mark Wippell at Allen & Overy and the 64% of UK executives that took part in this survey – I totally agree! Since Higgs – the UK has made real […]
The boardroom verdict
In this article in Marketing Week, Lucy Handley highlights the challenges facing different organisations in the way they run their marketing functions. It suggests that the current generation of marketers are left wanting in the combination of different skill sets required to be a Board level marketer today. The rigour around the customer agenda is […]
Women on boards
The conclusion not to introduce quotas alongside the targets set for female representation on Boards is interesting. FTSE 100 companies have until 2015 to get to 25% female Board representation. This is very likely to be fulfilled through an increase in female NED appointments. Because the report highlights the crux of the issue in a […]