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The start of 2020 has me thinking more about what’s to come. As ever, it’s difficult to picture where we may be in six months, let alone one year. But I thought it might be interesting to quickly explore what we’ll see in the short, medium and long-term future.
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The changing nature of success – A conversation with Doug MacColl
After my last article on the future of finance roles, Doug MacColl got in touch to tell me about some of the trends he’s noticed in IT and Finance.
He spoke about how they’re impacting the way he hires and also the way his teams operate. I was interested to understand more about how these new tools and technologies have changed his definition of success on a personal and business level.
A conversation with Schalk van der Westhuizen
Finance roles have seen some of the greatest amount of change over the last few decades thanks to technology. It started with fairly simple software that altered the way people performed their roles and is now expanding to actually change the way the roles are defined.
I want to share this conversation with Schalk van der Westhuizen, not only because he has seen this with his background as an accountant, but also because he’s currently working through it in more recent roles as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of global companies.
Here’s what he had to say about the impact of technology in his world and also his outlook for the future.
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