March 1, 2009
Features
Organization As Network: A Modern Approach to Performance Management
Third-generation strategies can't thrive in second-generation organizations with first-generation management...
Upside of IFRS: Chance for a Performance Management Tune-up
For decades, global financial reporting was dominated by the U.S. GAAP...
A Catalyst For Improvement: The IFRS Center of Excellence
The projected move to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for financial reporting in the United States has sparked considerable discussion...
BPM in the Slowdown: Is the Time Right for SaaS?
Much has been made in recent years of the rise of the software as a service (SaaS) model for enterprise IT...
Get Your Goals Right: Using Benchmarking in Setting Performance Targets
Business leaders often feel their control on their business is slipping...
Case Studies
Case In Point: When Trust Is King
In 2004, Art Barter was the vice president of finance for Datron World Communications, a division of Titan Corp. in San Diego that produced military communications...
Case In Point: More Real Time, Less Wasted Time
Vocus Sells Information and software to public relations professionals on a subscription basis. What-if scenarios and variance analyses are crucial to...
Columns
The Time Is Right
Performance Management is a hot topic these days. The more turbulent the global economy is, the more companies need to improve their forecasting and management...
Cost-Cutting Seen As Way To Cut Costs
All the Business News these days seems to be about how beleaguered businesses are trying to cut costs. They are doing this because persons who were apparently...