 In today's world, financial rigor and strategic insight need to be tightly linked. Senior financial executives play a key role in strategy development and implementation, working closely with the CEO to creatively design growth opportunities for the future. As CFO, you are called upon to identify and assess profitable business ventures, lead mergers & acquisitions, establish alliances and shape internal growth strategies. You need to gain a deeper understanding of strategy, build leadership skills and better communicate your financial knowledge to other leaders.
The CFO: Becoming a Strategic Partner, offers frameworks and processes to help you contribute more to strategy development and value creation in your organization. You will learn and apply a scenario-based strategic planning process that examines possible futures to develop strategies for profiting from uncertainty. You'll learn approaches for managing risk, creating flexible strategies through options thinking and developing alternative growth strategies.
Program Focus
- Using financial data to drive value-creating growth
- Strategic planning under uncertainty
- Integrating finance and strategy
- Portfolio analysis
- Managing risk
- Alternative growth strategies
- Applying real options thinking to strategy formulation
- Influence and leadership
- Relationship management
Program Outcomes
- Develop more effective and resilient strategies for building value in an uncertain environment
- Improve analysis and communication across functions about the financial implications of strategies
- Learn and apply best practices and frameworks to drive profitable growth
- Heighten competitiveness of the organization by combining financial discipline with strategic insight
- Better manage risks and increase strategic flexibility in meeting challenges in an uncertain environment
- Strengthen leadership skills and network with financial leaders in other industries
Participant Profile
This program is designed for senior financial executives who are responsible for developing and implementing strategy as part of senior leadership. CFOs, vice presidents, controllers, corporate treasurers and other senior financial executives with strategic and financial responsibilities have participated in the program.
Date:
May 01-06, 2005 (Participants encouraged to arrive by April 27)
December 04-09, 2005 (Participants encouraged to arrive by November 30)
Location - Philadelphia, PA (Residential)
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