Sep 22, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 14 segments
Most software buying mistakes don't start with the product or the vendor — they start with a vague brief, internal politics and a lack of discipline. In this episode of the CFO Access Podcast, Jeff…
The groups were essentially formed to help CFOs deal with confidential, complex issues that they might be facing in a safe kind of place.
So if someone is listening to this, what would you say to someone who is perhaps out there as a CFO thinking about whether they would potentially benefit from something like that? What was your experience in coming along?
I've always been a big supporter of groups that are basically, you know, Chatham House rules, right? What's said in the room stays in the room.
And also leveraging the knowledge of people who've been there and done that.
And I'm in a couple where you just, you know, you come across an issue or a problem and you put it in the room and then someone says, oh yeah we had that and what did you do right um it's it's hugely valuable um because you're not just reading the latest thing off the internet that purports to be the answer to your problem
actually going through people who've been there done it and either solved it or gone that was hard and we never managed to solve it but this is what we tried yeah And
I think if you're just relying on what you read on the internet or from these days from ChatGPT, you're not necessarily going to get the best answer.
So, I mean, I'm glad that you've said that because, you know, we do try to create that kind of environment.
The groups were essentially formed to help CFOs deal with confidential, complex issues that they might be facing in a safe kind of place.
So if someone is listening to this, what would you say to someone who is perhaps out there as a CFO thinking about whether they would potentially benefit from something like that? What was your experience in coming along?
I've always been a big supporter of groups that are basically, you know, Chatham House rules, right? What's said in the room stays in the room.
And also leveraging the knowledge of people who've been there and done that.
And I'm in a couple where you just, you know, you come across an issue or a problem and you put it in the room and then someone says, oh yeah we had that and what did you do right um it's it's hugely valuable um because you're not just reading the latest thing off the internet that purports to be the answer to your problem
actually going through people who've been there done it and either solved it or gone that was hard and we never managed to solve it but this is what we tried yeah And
I think if you're just relying on what you read on the internet or from these days from ChatGPT, you're not necessarily going to get the best answer.
So, I mean, I'm glad that you've said that because, you know, we do try to create that kind of environment.
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