CFO’s Ultimate Recession Playbook

2-Minute Summary

• While most businesses are cutting costs and freezing hiring, these steps are not enough to navigate the recession.
• Gartner shares insights on how CFOs can optimize spending, hiring, and digital acceleration to improve their enterprises’ ability to withstand a recession.
• Bain & Co. recommends 3 pre-recession strategies that CFOs can deploy on top of 3 robust deflation strategies that can help their enterprises stay recession-ready.
• The Hackett Group assesses the risks that recession and inflation pose and recommends finance leaders a 7-step action plan to turn adversity into opportunity.