Increasing Revenue, Managing Costs, and Mitigating Financial Risk

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Resources for CFOs

CFOs are looking to increase the digital dexterity of their teams as a means to reduce risk, optimize costs, and extract value from data. Here, senior finance leaders share their thoughts on finance modernization, running lean, and the changing role of the CFO.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Mergers can be a messy business. Learn how to simplify the process with advice from our M&A experts on everything from IT integration, to data sovereignty, to workforce alignment and more.

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Finance on Conversations with Leaders

Conversations with Leaders is a podcast featuring executive-level discussions on leadership, culture, innovation, and maximizing ROI of technology investments. Listen to episodes of the show that focus on personal insights from finance leaders across industries and countries.

How Leaders Create a Multiplier Effect with Leila Fourie, Group CEO of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange

with Leila Fourie, Group CEO of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, and Tanuja Randery, Managing Director, AWS EMEA

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Transforming SMBs with Cloud-Based Financial Solutions

with Nathan Gill, Chief Product Officer of EposNow, and Chris Hennesey, AWS Enterprise Strategist

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Maximizing the ROI of a Cloud Transformation

with Chhavi Arora, McKinsey Partner, Jonathan Allen, AWS Enterprise Strategist, and Tom Adams, General Manager for Business Consulting and Advisory Partners, AWS

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Cost management

Blog | 5 min read

Cutting Costs by Cutting Waste

Sometimes cutting costs through the budget mechanism is effective, quick…and necessary. But we should look more broadly at ways to manage costs that don’t interfere with value delivery and competitive advantage—ways of using frugality to support and drive growth.

Blog | 5 min read

Managing in Economic Uncertainty: Cost Reductions

Managing in times of economic uncertainty means facing difficult choices. Reducing costs is a choice that leaders often face but mostly dread. Many of us on the Enterprise Strategy team have faced multiple macroeconomic headwinds or other industry- and company-specific challenges in our previous roles as CXOs.

Blog | 7 min read

Who Pays? Decomplexifying Technology Charges

As a CIO or CFO, have you ever questioned how IT costs are allocated within your business? Ever been overwhelmed with the complexity and lack of transparency?

I think working to achieve leanness by searching for waste in value delivery processes is an often-neglected method that is more consistent with the ideas of the digital age. It may have short-term costs (e.g., automating to reduce repetitive manual steps) but quickly generates permanent and—importantly—scalable savings."

- Mark Schwartz, AWS Enterprise Strategist

Recommended for enterprise finance leaders

Article | 7 min read

Don't Overlook Cloud: A Strategic Tool for CFOs

The role of the CFO is expanding rapidly. Increasingly, the CFO is charged with seeking new sources of value and leading company-wide transformation. Learn how the AWS Cloud enables CFOs to increase agility, reduce risks, and accelerate digital transformation.

ebook

Business Value on AWS

In this paper, we share how the AWS Cloud is transforming business and provide an analysis of these four aspects of business value based on over 1,500 public AWS case studies and examination of 15 operational and financial KPIs.

eBook

How to Think Like a Digital CFO

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.