How is IT reshaping the role that finance plays within organizations? Join us as three finance leaders share their views on information technology and how new tools and applications are opening new doors to strategy-minded finance professionals. ¤
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Talking Points
“The first thing that you want to do is to find out where you are touching paper and where you’re evaluating transactions manually and eliminate those areas using technology.” —Eric Loughmiller, CFO, KAR Auction Services
“We have to make strategic decisions about how we hedge our costs, and our costs change very dynamically. … We work very closely with our wholesale team using data analytics related to weather patterns, but even the best weather predictors are not infallible, so it’s always a challenge.” —Renée Hornbaker, CFO, Stream Energy
“We look at the adoption of RFID across different sectors. … We look at the volume of chips that go into RFID tags, and we look at the volume of chips that we ship on a quarterly basis … to see if RFID is being adopted more widely.” —Evan Fein, CFO, Impinj