“ Digitisation is inevitable. It will happen anyways, so it’s better to take it in your own hands rather than let it happen to you. Any market player out there will tell you that digitisation is mission critical” — Kai-Ulrich Deissner Chief Financial Officer Technology
team because while it’s still doing the
financial logic isn’t just driving results in
practical things of providing clear num-
the company’s finance department but
bers and proper accounting, it’s also
has impact on further operations within
about establishing financial logic to
the company.
measure our return on investment and productivity.” Deissner adds that it’s been quite a
“By bundling all our activities, it is also helping us use our resources to tackle some of the more challenging
challenge to lead traditional finance
number work as well. This means we
people to look more into the business
can spend less time producing reports
and acting as collaborative business
and more time on interpreting the
partners focusing on market and cus-
meaning of numbers, which enables us
tomer needs.
to support the business by providing a
As Chief Financial Officer for the
broad end-to-end thinking, combining
Technology & Innovation board area,
financial, commercial and operative
Deissner is aware that this sense of
concerns for our business partners.” w w w. t e l e k o m . c o m