BPM Revealed: The Naked Truth About Implementation
For budgeting, planning, financial reporting, and performance analysis, spreadsheets are clearly inefficient...
Being Prepared: How BPM Software Improves Response Times
Until someone figures out how to perfect time travel or the crystal ball, finance managers will have to cope with uncertainty in their budgeting and planning...
The Last Word: You Don't Have To Be A Weatherman
In ancient times, decision-makers turned to the famed Oracle of Delphi to predict the future, although it fell out of favor after suggesting that Windows...
Measuring Customer Value: How BPM Supports Better Marketing Decisions
Marketing spending is critical. It directly affects both corporate revenues and earnings...
Case in Point: The Pros of a Modern Budgeting Process
When Dale Hosack joined Western Container Corp. as CFO two years ago, he inherited a budgeting process that hadn't changed substantially in 20 years...
Slowing Momentum: Why BPM Isn't Keeping Pace With Its Potential
In late 2001 and early 2002, analysts and vendors started publicly describing the concept of business performance management (BPM) as a silver bullet...
Case in Point: The Data Is the Data
Casella Waste Systems, which employs 2,500 people in 90 facilities across the eastern United States, implemented business performance management (BPM) software four years ago to make budgeting more manageable...
First Steps Toward BPM: The Who, Why, and How of Initiating a Project
The Participants Jonathan Becher, CEO, Pilot Software Inc. John Colbert, VP, BPM Partners Inc. Carie Gaytn, BPS Global Process Leader, FP&A, Johns Manville...
Case in Point: Attention to Details
Countrywide Financial Corp. is an enormous company that runs an array of business performance management (BPM) applications...
High-Octane MDM: How Enterprise Dimension Management Boosts BPM's Performance
When enterprises first started to use mainframe computers, it was fairly easy for an organization running one centralized computer system to maintain...
The Last Word: Death-Time Value
I first became aware of the practice of getting rid of customers when I was a child. My dad owned a bike shop and dealt with impossible-to-please patrons...
The Five Keys To Building A High-Performance Organization
Some organizations do well at nearly every task. Almost all of their initiatives succeed, and even when something fails, it has only a temporary impact...
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