December 1, 2008
Articles
Securing BPM's Longevity
I recently attended the sixth annual BPM Summit. The conference featured a number of fascinating presentations related to performance management, but...
Method or Madness? Initiating a Transition To Make BPM Last
If you're reading this, you're probably already a believer in business performance management (BPM). You probably think that BPM represents a major change...
Linking Strategy to Operations: Six Stages to Execution
In order to survive, thrive, and create real value in increasingly competitive global markets, organizations are adopting increasingly complex strategies....
Change Report: What's Your XBRL Readiness?
Late this year, the SEC will likely finalize a rule that will require U.S. public companies to file their financial statements in extensible business...
Failure Points: Where BPM Projects Tend To Falter
A business performance management (BPM) solution is a sophisticated analytical application that supports well-defined management processes. BPM software...
Behind the Revenue: Better Managing Sales Team Motivation
Few sales organizations perform optimally. That's the bad news that is shaping bottom lines in companies of all sizes, in every industry, nationwide....
Sweetening Up The Planning Process
In December 2007, cookie maker Otis Spunkmeyer turned to a hosted software package to improve its budgeting and sales forecasting processes. Today, the finance team wishes only that they had decided much sooner to stop relying on Excel for business performance management (BPM)....
The Last Word: Our Personal Best
Since this is the time of year when people commit to resolutions, I’ve decided that in FY ’09 I’ll apply the principles of business performance management not just to my business life, but to my home life as well. ...