May 1, 2007
Articles
Risk in the Strategic Planning Process
The uncertainties of planning are well-documented in prose and poetry. "The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry," wrote Robert Burns (in translation)...
About Face: Why BPM Front Ends Are Failing
A survey of 150 finance executives conducted by the Buttonwood Group and CFO Magazine recently revealed that most companies are failing to fully engage nonfinance users in their performance management processes...
Common Cause: How Six Sigma Can Drive Better Management Reports
It's not uncommon for a company to track its performance solely in terms of conformance -- and nonconformance -- to plan...
Prepare Today for the Reporting Language of the Future
Many businesspeople have never heard of extensible business reporting language (XBRL). Even among those that have seen the acronym or, perhaps, read an...
Managed Services: First-Rate Benefits of Third-Party Hosting
Successfully deploying any enterprise software is challenging, and business performance management (BPM) is no exception...
Case in Point: Road Map to Transparency
Pearson PLC is the parent company to a family of large publishing and media businesses, including Pearson Education, the Penguin Group, and the Financial Times Publishing Group...
Case in Point: Evolution of an Enterprise
Since medical technology manufacturer VIASYS spun off from Thermo Electron Corp. five years ago, its organizational structure has been in a state of constant change...
Case in Point: Winds of Change
Because it's in such a competitive industry, The Weather Channel needs to be able to shift its financial priorities on a dime...
The Last Word: Flirting With Disaster
Whenever I say "This could be a disaster," it means I am going to cook a new, complicated recipe; I have decided to attempt self-tattooing; or I am watching...