August 1, 2006
Articles
Understanding the Consolidating BPM Landscape
The market for business performance management (BPM) continues to grow as companies seek to add value and cut costs through management and governance initiatives...
Enterprise Information Management: Aligning Business Strategy and IT
As vendors peddle the slickest new dashboards, scorecards, and planning applications to get your attention, they probably are glossing over the behind-the-scenes work that makes these tools perform reliably....
Overcoming Data Quality Challenges in Complex Organizations
Finance organizations often face this dilemma: No matter how extensive they make their global chart of accounts, how much dimensional detail they add...
IT Shared Services: Managing and Aligning Costs for Better Performance
When CEOs sought cost savings in the past, typically they looked to the direct costs in the business...
Case in Point: No More Secrets
Power Paragon, a division of defense-industry giant L-3 Communications, achieves a competitive advantage by combining an extremely detailed forecasting process with the rapid, widespread dissemination of information about how actuals compare with the forecasts...
Case in Point: Leveraging Operational Metrics
Rumpke Consolidated Companies Inc. ranks among the nation's largest privately owned waste and recycling services companies. In addition to providing extensive residential...
The Last Word: Who's Your Daddy?
They say the only constant is change, and even though you want to hurt them when they say that because you've heard it so often, there's truth in what...