Performance Management in the Innovation Age: An Introduction 
In this article, Jeremy Hope argues that the key to real performance management is innovation. Success in highly competitive, rapidly changing markets demands new ways of thinking, shared responsibility, easy access to information, and rapid response to threats and opportunities. The ponderous top-down, command-and-control management style is outdated, stifles innovation, and practically guarantees suboptimal financial and operational results. This is the first in a new series of papers written for the Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management by Jeremy Hope, Research Director of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table. Jeremy is an advisor to the Innovation Center. He is also a tireless champion for innovation in performance management theory and practice, believing that business-as-usual is NOT a route to success.
IBM Cognos Workforce Resource Management Performance Blueprint
Employee-related costs often account for the greatest share of corporate operating expenses. The Blueprint enables managers to align staffing and scheduling with activity requirements using a best-practice, driver-based process. The process is short-term in scope, but highly detailed. Links to Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Production ensure the accuracy of driver volumes.
Industry Analyst Firm Finds Performance Blueprints Increase ROI
Industry analysts at Nucleus Research discovered that although most software needs to be customized, “Cognos has found a way to relieve its customers of much of this development and customization.” Nucleus found that Cognos Performance Blueprints “eliminate developer costs, accelerate time-to-benefit, and increase ROI.”
IBM Cognos 8 Planning Implementation Roadmap
NOTE: requires Cognos Support site login/valid customer number
Part of the Cognos Solutions Implementation Methodology, this new roadmap provides a step-by-step guide to help ensure successful IBM Cognos 8 Planning implementations. Used by customers, partners and Cognos consultants around the globe, this repeatable, scalable implementation methodology features proven tools, guidelines, templates, techniques, role definitions and more for the activities, tasks and deliverables in each phase and a comprehensive project management function. Customers and partners can download their free copy today.
Clinical Trial Planning
For pharmaceutical companies, the importance of managing the clinical trial process cannot be overstated. This Application Brief demonstrates a Web-based planning application that pharmaceutical R&D teams can use to optimize the expense forecasting and tracking process.
Innovation in Action Series:
The Risk-Based Early Warning System
What does the future hold for your business—stagnation and gradual decline, or constant, aggressive growth? In the second of a provocative series of articles, David Axson and Gregory Hackett explain how the finance organization can help businesses assess and address risk.
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