Issue No consensus on priorities: everything, everywhere, all at once

Summary

Deloitte treats the lack of agreement among finance leaders about priorities as a defining condition of the moment. Borrowing a film title, it describes the situation as everything, everywhere, all at once. The survey shows the top five priorities separated by only four percentage points, with external challenges and technology adoption tied at the top. Perceived risks are similarly bunched, from economic uncertainty down to geopolitics and supply chains. The implication is that many finance leaders are juggling several leading priorities at the same time rather than ranking them cleanly. This makes the question of where to focus attention, and how to keep that focus, central to how the function handles uncertainty.