How to think like a Digital CFO
How the digital world requires us to think differently
 
 
As we navigate the changes brought about by the digital revolution, we see the role of the enterprise CFO changing. In fact, the digital world requires us to think very differently about what a CFO does.
In this ebook, AWS Enterprise Strategist Mark Schwartz compares the “old” and the “new” ways of defining what a CFO does in order to identify the traits of today's digital CFO. Though different CFOs and their enterprises have treated the role differently, it’s clear that the CFO has become central to driving the digital performance of the enterprise.
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