Essential insights from the report The role of finance professionals in driving productivity are based on in-depth interviews with senior finance leaders in the UK. The report explores how finance professionals enhance productivity, implement forward-thinking strategies to address professional challenges, and improve business partnering, agile transformations, collaboration, and hybrid work. Expert perspectives on the skills needed for productivity are also available in the download. Valuable perspectives and practical insights from CIMA members support you in enhancing your productivity and efficiency.
Following on from our research in Tackling the UK Productivity Puzzle, this report explores the role of finance professionals in driving productivity. It is based on interviews with CIMA members — namely, senior finance leaders engaged in several industries in the UK.
Our discussions focussed on initiatives introduced during the pandemic and the calibrations needed to cope with the professional challenges in 2022. Thus, our members analysed productivity lessons learned in their own context and discussed with us how finance professionals define, control, and improve productivity and how those efforts link with business partnering, agile transformations, collaboration, and hybrid work practices.
The report finishes by outlining the skills of productivity, seen through the eyes of members and their diverse professional experiences.