Digital CFO is the new normal: Oracle’s Kimberly Ellison-Taylor

Digital CFOs are technology savvy chief financial officers, who think about new growth models. “They think about where the organisation will be in the future in order to maximise shareholder value. I don’t think in today’s environment I can foresee any organisation that can afford to have a CFO that only works on the numbers,” Kimberly Ellison-Taylor, global strategy leader, Cloud Business Group, Oracle, tells Sudhir Chowdhary in a recent interview. Excerpts:

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