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Barriers to Change

Top obstacles to achieving finance's current agenda


Shown as percentage of respondents identifying each item
as one of their top three barriers to change
Outmoded or missing business intelligence and
forward-planning capability
39%
Inadequate resources, unsophisticated processes for resource/capital prioritization 32%
Multiple, fragmented technology architectures preventing seamless
enterprise integration
31%
Inability to change decades-old corporate culture 30%
Resource constraints 28%
Uneven depth of leadership and consultative smarts within finance organization 27%
Highly customized or unreliable financial processes supported by underdeveloped analytical tools 25%
Finance bogged down in transaction processing and crises 22%
Strongly autonomous business units and an arm's length managing
corporate center
22%
Stature and influence of finance leadership 13%

Source:

The Activist CFO--Alignment with Strategy, not just with the Business
CFO Research Services April 2005