When the numbers are always changing and pressure on costs is growing, businesses look to their CFOs for leadership. Finance chiefs tell Emma Carroll how they are using value creation as an anchor.

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Anoop Aggarwal, Global CFO, Mars Pet Nutrition, Mars: If there isn't clarity about the value creation model in a business […] then data can become a barrier rather than an enabler.

Richard August, Global Managing Partner, Enterprise Agility, TCS: Agile organisations have a very clear understanding of, and organise around, how value is created for all the relevant stakeholders.

Matthew Blagg, CEO, Criticaleye: Boards are seeing business models shifting, but they are finding it hard to influence the executive team to respond because the data isn’t there.

Janet Mui, Head of Market Analysis, Brewin Dolphin: We came from a strong growth environment with extremely accommodative liquidity and monetary and fiscal policy, then this year, everything went into reverse.

Mike Schmidt, CFO, DFS: A value creation framework [...] can take away the emotion from some of the debate by providing an anchor to the conversation.