Season 1 Episode 5

BCX CFO Cheryl-Jane Kujenga on allocating capital to innovation

04 November 2024 · 26:04 min

In this fifth episode of EY-Parthenon’s Real-World Strategy Dialogues – a podcast series by EY-Parthenon – BCX CFO Cheryl-Jane Kujenga discusses the imperatives businesses must embrace to ensure they are innovative. Kujenga has over 24 years of experience in financial management, strategy… development, and merger and acquisition operational management. Kujenga has also held multiple senior executive management positions at established multinational organisations during this time, including Ascendis Health, Adcorp, and Ernst & Young. In this interview, Kujenga discusses how to plan for business success when faced with uncertainty. She highlights the importance of strategic capital investment and the value of allocating capital to innovation. Kujenga then reveals the five key areas that innovative organisations focus on, as well as the key imperatives for BCX. She discusses how BCX embraces a learning mentality where its teams are always looking to improve their skills, knowledge, and practices – and expands on the importance of partnerships. Kujenga then highlights how BCX fosters relationships with everyone from leading global OEMs to small, agile, and innovative startups. She concludes the interview by discussing how she balances her C-level role at BCX with her personal life as a mother. Show more