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Today’s CFO has to be more strategic than ever before. Finance leadership roles require a more proactive, holistic, and collaborative approach to find business solutions and keep pace with the competition.

In 9 Emerging Trends for the Futurist CFO, finance leaders provide critical insight into key mandates affecting their roles. Discover the latest trends and implement strategies to help position your organization ahead of the curve.

In this report, some of the trends you’ll learn include:

• The CFO’s responsibility for reporting on and managing complex risks.
• How embedding finance managers throughout an organization makes the best use of data to drive decisions.
• How CFOs are working cross-functionally to ensure their organizations are positioned for growth.

Across any supply chain, hundreds of critical functions keep things moving. But maintenance alone has the power to bring your supply chain to a halt in minutes.

Learn about the smart maintenance model and find out how it can help you build a more resilient supply chain by adding remote condition-based monitoring, predictive maintenance, and cognitive maintenance to traditional reactive and preventive approaches. In this e-book, you’ll discover how smart maintenance delivers:

• More longevity for buildings, plants, machines, and vehicles.
• Improved throughput, quality, and uptime.
• Fewer costly machine failures and unplanned shutdowns.
• Better working conditions, especially regarding safety.

The right IT devices and tools are a valuable—and essential—investment in hybrid work. However, many PCs aren’t optimized for this hybrid-work setup.

Employers need to take inventory of where investments need to be made to ensure that employees are properly connected with the right hardware and software. With the right tools, you can help your hybrid team effectively and efficiently thrive in the modern workplace.

Forrester conducted an online survey with 1,733 business decision makers in IT, HR, and line-of-business roles. In the study, Understanding the Role of Modernized PCs in Hybrid Work Environment Optimization—a Forrester Consulting thought leadership paper commissioned on behalf of Microsoft, you’ll:

• Learn more about the post-pandemic workforce, in which business leaders expect over 50 percent of their workforce to remain remote or hybrid.
• Understand the top challenges that remote employees face with their PCs.
• Read how employers are investing in employee-equipment budgets, including an increase in PC/laptop spending.
• Learn about improvements needed in PC quality—across hardware, software, peripherals, security, and support processes—to foster successful hybrid work.
• Gather key recommendations to drive employee experience, improve business outcomes, and more.

This year has been challenging for businesses of all kinds. The global pandemic and other recent events have sent waves through organizations everywhere—unveiling vulnerabilities and the need for agile processes—making now the best time to future-proof your business and build resilience into your supply chains.

In this white paper, you’ll learn seven principles of effective supply chain management, and how they’ll help your business:

• Gain agility and stay mobile during uncertain times.
• Enhance visibility to quickly resolve imbalances and adapt accordingly.
• Optimize and reduce cost for the changing needs of your pipeline.