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Episode 57: How to be a Transformative CFO Guest: Brian Frohn Large influential consultancies like McKinsey, Gartner and others have been talking for several years now about how the responsibilities of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) are expanding to include their companies’ digital activities. This makes sense, since the Office of Finance is the most central of all functions in any business, and embracing digital technology is the only way for Finance to stay connected in an age when data volumes and velocities are exploding. But just because it makes sense doesn’t mean that it is easy to do. Those who work in Finance have demanding day-jobs with hard deadlines, and little room for error. Surveys of finance professionals regularly show that more time is spent on low-value tasks like data manipulation and validation, leaving very little time for high-value analysis and interpretation. While most people understand that the use of technology is necessary to correct this imbalance, finding a way to break the c