Drawing lessons from these unsettled months, the CFO must now permanently build speed and flexibility into functions that encompass forecasting, planning and resource allocation processes and incorporate new tools and rapid decision-making protocols into the finance team’s day-to-day work. Experience has shown that whether the challenge is rooted in growing revenue or allocating resources, technology is the shortest path to better, more confident action. But to bring technology to life, we must invest in our people. Taking on the notion of 'tech intensity' – which is an organisation’s rate of technology adoption along with its ability to build its own digital capabilities, as we enter recovery and reestablishment, we encourage CFOs to take risks, learn, educate and as a result, feel comfortable enough to embrace change beyond Covid-19.