Operational resilience is becoming a core CFO capability—not just a risk function.
Mars, Incorporated CFO Claus Aagaard shares his views on reading market signals together, diversifying sourcing, pressure-testing decisions, and investing in digital, data, and cyber capabilities that strengthen the operating backbone. He believes the goal is not to predict every disruption, but to build options, avoid one-way decisions, and help the business adapt with speed and discipline.
“Managing organizational resilience still starts with reading classic market signals such as consumers, retailers and category development,” says Aagaard. “On top of that, CFOs have to interpret a broader set of signals shaped by a dynamic global environment. We need to understand what a more multipolar world actually means for our respective businesses. At the highest level this starts with looking at strategy and the enterprise risk management process together.”
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