Pressure of CEO and CFO

I got this from “How Microsoft Runs Its Business” presentation

Pressure on CEO:

• Find new customers and increase value of existing customers.
• Find strong new partners and identify new growth markets early.
• Decide faster and execute faster.
• Take out costs and increase productivity.
• Attract and retain top talent
• Be transparent, provide more information, more quickly.

Pressure of CFO:

• Business needs change:
• Reduce overhead by:
• Streamline finance.
• Organization & reduce costs.
• Protect Reputation
• Ensure rock solid compliance and transparency.
• Unlock information
• Provide real time, anywhere access, across the organization to data and analysis.
• Technology enables and demands change:
• Reduce overhear:
• Digitize processes and automate transactions.
• Protect Reputation:
• Improved real time visibility.
• Enhanced audit trials.
• Controlling access.
• Unlock information:
• Provides business users with self services access, and analytical tools.