March 1, 2004
Articles
The First Word
For business performance management (BPM) to truly deliver on its promise, it needs to move beyond the finance function. Many world-class companies have...
The Impact of Business Intelligence Vendor Consolidation on BPM Decisions
In these volatile times, businesses' need to monitor and improve efficiency and to meet customer expectations is paramount...
The Other BPM: Operational Performance Management
While in the past the primary motivation for companies to implement business performance management (BPM) has been the bottom line (with priority given to budgeting and planning applications and scorecards), business, finance, and IT decision-makers now are focusing on creating value by more effectively managing their operations and business processes...
Case Study: United States Sugar Corporation
As a commodity business, United States Sugar Corporation is used to operating at the whim of Mother Nature...
Business Performance Management: First Movers Speak Out
At the first annual Business Performance Management Summit, held last fall, practitioners, consultants, academics, and vendors met to discuss issues and trends that are critical to the implementation of business performance management (BPM) software and processes...
Cascading Corporate Goals: The Missing Link in Creating Performance-Driven Organizations
At its essence, becoming "performance-driven" is about motivating the entire work force -- including all employees, partners, suppliers, agents, and others inside and outside the enterprise -- to work collectively to execute the strategy of the organization...
Profit-Margin Math: Leveraging ABM Data for Exceptional BPM Results
Do you know what we think of our cost accounting system? It is a bunch of fictitious lies -- but we all agree to it...