Few tools were more important to CFOs during the pandemic than scenario planning. With the massive amount data and analytics at hand, CFOs can produce more robust scenarios today than ever before, and leaders like Verizon CFO leveraged this to vet the assumptions his team used in its pandemic modeling.

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• How scenario planning helped School of Rock go virtual in 12 days
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