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CFO Day 2012 Explorer: on course in a new world
On 7 June 2012 CFOs and Financial Directors can sign onto the SS Rotterdam for an expedition to the new world. We don’t know exactly what that new world looks like, but we can give a rough idea of a number of developments we are sure to encounter along the way.
The world is not the same as it was ten years ago and will change even more over the years to come. New developments have upset the foundations on which we have relied for so many years; no longer are they the formulas for success. It is time to alter or change course. The CEO who determines the course and the destination of the company has much work on his hands, as does the CFO, who is challenged with achieving the goal with or without minor course corrections.
Developments with respect to social media, alternative working practices, shifting economic and political power, volatile capital markets, new technologies, the need for sustainability and shortages induce captain and navigating officer to plot adeptly in order to steer clear of obstacles and to stay the course towards the new world. Sometimes new routes must be explored if the ship threatens to run aground on a sandbank. Like explorers, we will seek out these new routes in the new world. A number of subtopics will be addressed during the voyage aboard the SS Rotterdam, such as:
Subthemes:
- Growth in times of scarcity?
- Geopolitical upheaval
- Sustainability as a licence to operate
- Quest for a new steam engine
- The new foundations of the capital markets
- The advent of company 2.1
- Navigating in the information tsunami
- The undiscovered world
We hope to welcome you at the 11th CFO Day on De Rotterdam. More information will follow soon, but please save this date in your agenda.
Kind regards,
Michael van Asperen
Community Manager