The CFO Strategy Brief - CSOsandbox
Welcome to the CSOsandbox Podcast Channel
Your gateway to cutting‑edge insights at the intersection of finance, strategy, and operations. Designed for CFOs, senior corporate leaders, and strategy professionals, this podcast delivers fresh, thought‑provoking perspectives that help you navigate complexity and drive organisational success.
Every episode explores how CFOs can become strategic catalysts, aligning financial leadership with corporate vision and operational execution to unlock sustainable growth.
But the podcast is just the beginning. It’s part of a comprehensive strategy ecosystem that empowers leaders to move from insight to impact:
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Our strategic insights are brought to life by the stratāgaia Power BI App. Our knowledge base is hosted on the Strategic Management Institute (SMI) website: https://www.smiknowledge.com. Core concepts are drawn from the acclaimed books Corporate Strategy (Remastered) I & II (Routledge, 2020), Corporation of the Future (Routledge, 2022).
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Episodes
20 episodes
CFO Strategy Brief 6: Reinvention Champions or One‑Hit Wonders?
CFOs are being asked to do more with less, certify numbers faster, and form a view on AI while defending margins that no longer look defensible. Yet the real opportunity is not another efficiency program; it is to use the finance vantage point ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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25:11
CFO Strategy Brief 5: Architecting AI‑enabled Corporate Collaborative Systems
In this episode of the CFO Strategy Brief Series, we explore a critical shift for finance leaders: moving beyond digitising old processes to architecting AI‑enabled Corporate Collaborative Systems – a foundational design for the corporation of ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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19:42
CFO Strategy Brief 4: Deep Strategic Thinking With Gen AI
In this episode, we explore how Systemic Cognitive Strategy Practice (SCSP) enables leaders to apply multiple forms of thinking—prospection, inspection, retrospection, and more—simultaneously. Rather than working in isolation, these modes...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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22:31
CFO Strategy Brief 3: A New tool for the CFO - ESPM
In this episode we explore how Enterprise Strategic Performance Management (ESPM) is transforming the role of the most trusted adviser to the CEO, the CFO’, from financial overseer to strategic leader. As organisations face increasing complexit...
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Episode 3
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5:57
CFO Strategy Brief 2: Strategy, Scale & Survival in Australian Oligopolies
In Australia’s tightly held markets, competition isn’t about slashing prices, it’s about strategic orchestration. “The Duopoly Diaries” unpacks how dominant players in sectors like groceries, construction, and aviation build enduring ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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10:32
CFO Strategy Brief 1: Energising the strategic role of the CFO
The traditional role of the CFO is undergoing a transformation, as suggested in this thought-provoking podcast. The narrative challenges conventional notions by advocating for a paradigm shift in the CFO's responsibilities. Interestingly, this ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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17:10
Disruption and reinvention in the automotive sector: Is Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) missing the mark?
As depicted in the thumbnail Jaguar is in the process of the developing a new car, coupled with a new production platform oh, and by the way, coupled with a reinvention of the company Jaguar Land Rover. In the promotion of this new car Jaguar h...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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31:17
Reimaging the future at Mattel
Listen to an insightful exploration of the innovative strategies employed by Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz, as we analyze his approach through the lens of the Strategic Management Institute's Third Wave Strategy. Discover how Kreiz not only implemented...
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3:51
Defining the difference between restructuring and transforming – and why it matters
While advances in technology continue to evolve other global forces have entered the equation (geo political unrest, climate, consequences of Covid) more recently. Nearly all have contributed to a loss of equilibrium in global markets and by de...
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3:10
Strategy as a Bites: Organisational Learning as an Eco System
An overview of Organisational Learning as an Eco System - a support commentary to the webinar posted separately. In this podcast specific elements of organisational learning are discussed. the main message however is:1. &nb...
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53:22
Video Bite: Strategy as an Integration of Social and Technical Trajectories
A taste of what is covered in the webinar with the same name uploaded separately.
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2:38
Video Bites: Third Wave Strategy Practice
In this era of great volatility, Third Wave Strategy provides a strategic management platform that enables the integration, alignment and systemisation of all forms of strategy practice. It is characterised by a systemic and integrated approach...
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3:02
Video Bites: Making the Role of the Chief Strategy Officer Your Own
Scant research has been undertaken into the role of the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), that is, the determination of what a CSO does. As specialists in strategy practice, the Strategic Management Institute (SMI), the research arm of Paul Hunter ...
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2:44
Video Bites: Strategy whisperers and nudgers: Evolving the corporation from within
High potential executives (high pots) can be found in every corporation. Their presence, although generally overt is valued. So much so, they are feted with personal development opportunities that may ultimately include a sponsored stint at an ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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2:38
Video Bites: Muddling Through: Strategic decision making for complex, high risk problems
Driven by extreme uncertainty following the onset of Covid - 19, immediate change became an imperative for all CEOs. Their response was impressive, corporate leaders sprang into action. This begs the question though: If decision making is impro...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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3:10
Audio: Future Manufacturing Part 2: Building momentum; a new era of industrialisation
This podcast is the second in a series of two parts. In the first podcast we challenged traditional perceptions of strategic thinking. Firstly by proposing that a re-emergence of localised manufacturing can be brought about, without having to o...
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9:36
Audio: Future Manufacturing Part 1: Finding the balance in a new world of industrialisation
Often resistant to change, corporations and governments too, must accept the fact that in the longer term, new forms of organisational structuring, and methods of manufacturing will evolve. Similarly, it is likely that onshoring, the idea of br...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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12:00
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Making the role of Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) your own
Scant research has been undertaken into the role of the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), that is, the determination of what a CSO does. As specialists in strategy practice, the Strategic Management Institute (SMI), the research arm of Paul Hunter ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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21:02
Strategy whisperers and nudgers: Evolving the corporation from within
High potential executives (high pots) can be found in every corporation. Their presence, although generally overt is valued. So much so, they are feted with personal development opportunities that may ultimately include a sponsored stint at an ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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13:24
Commentary on the Strategy whisperers and nudgers video: Evolving the corporation from within
CSOsandox podcast hosts, Paul Hunter and Stuart Orr explore concepts introduced in the video on the CSOsandbox YouTube channel: "Enter the Strategy Whisperers: Evolving the future corporation from within". The thrust of the conversatio...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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12:00
