November 1, 2003
Articles
The First Word
Putting Theory Into Practice No matter how you look at it, today's operating environment is fundamentally different from anything most of us have ever...
The BPM Transformation: Where it is Today, Where it's Going Tomorrow
In the enterprise software market, new products and marketing messages are emerging around business performance management (BPM) driven largely by executives' needs for tighter control of their businesses in the face of a rapidly changing economy, a more dynamic competitive environment, industry-shifting accounting scandals, and new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulations...
A Personal Case Study: A CFO's Perspective on Business Performance Management
The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard wrote, "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."...
Becoming Lean, Adaptive, and Ethical: How to Move Beyond Budgeting
Today's business executive is surrounded by challenges. Pressures on costs and pricing make lean, efficient operations necessary for survival...
Introducing and Managing Organizational Change in Support of BPM
The world of business has never been more dynamic or challenging. Unfortunately, traditional business models are no match for current realities...
The New Spectrum: How the Performance Prism Framework Helps
High-profile corporate collapses have led shareholders to question whether their investments are in safe hands...
The Last Word
Do You Want to No a Secret? Even though it wasn't a court-ordered condition of my parole, I was in a meeting recently about business ethics, during which...