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Innovation Center On-Demand Web Seminars

Achieving the Modern Fast Close

This series is a step-by-step discovery of the benefits of renewing the close, consolidate, report process. We will engage thought leaders, industry experts, and customers throughout. Whether you are already resolving your financial consolidation issues or just embarking on your journey, this Webinar series will bring you valuable information to help you each step of the way.

Building the Case for Your Performance Management Investment

View the on-demand Web seminar featuring David Axson and Greg Bozigian from Princess Cruises. With a step-by-step process for evaluation, real world comparisons, and best practices, you'll come away ready to make a compelling business case for your Performance Management investment.

You will learn:

Why it’s important to look at both improved efficiency and effectiveness

How to think about improvements in four critical areas: process quality, staff leverage, risk mitigation and decision quality

What quantitative performance improvement opportunities you might expect

Balanced Scorecard - The concepts that created a new way of measuring organization performance by Brett Knowles

When it comes to measuring performance, traditional financial metrics are necessary but not sufficient. In this 18-minute webinar, Brett explains how the Balanced Scorecard provides a broader, more "balanced" view of organizational performance. Brett uses the example of Southwest Airlines to illustrate how management can link strategic objectives to operational activities, and use the Balanced Scorecard to measure progress.

Translating strategy into action - An overview of management's core roles-the development and execution of strategy by Brett Knowles

Most organizations have no trouble articulating a clear strategy. Where many fail, however, is in translating that well-designed strategy into action. In a 34-minute webinar, Brett explains how management can do a more effective job of linking strategy to plans and budgets, and to the projects and processes that occupy the daily life of the organization.

Translating strategy into action - An overview of the Balance Scorecard (BSC) and how it drives performance by translating strategy into action by Brett Knowles

In Balanced Scorecards, as in so many things, it's important to not let "the perfect be the enemy of the good." In this 47-minute webinar, Brett outlines the five phases of building a Balanced Scorecard, and explains the value of launching the Balanced Scorecard process at the earliest opportunity.

Best Practices in Planning and Performance Management – Strategic Financial Planning

Join Cognos for a one-hour web seminar where you’ll learn how to establish a simple, integrated, and dynamic planning process to manage strategic planning, create risk-adjusted short-term and long-term financial targets, link financial targets to operational strategies and tactics, and align bottom-up operational plans with top-down financial targets.

Accelerating Enterprise Planning Beyond Finance with Cognos Performance Blueprints
(For Cognos Planning customers)

This Web seminar will introduce you to Cognos Performance Blueprints, which are designed to facilitate integrated, accurate, and dynamic cross-enterprise planning. Rich Lanahan, VP Cognos Innovation Center, will describe how the Performance Blueprints can jumpstart your next planning implementation.

Capital Expenditure Planning Blueprint

Part of the Cognos Performance Blueprint series, this Web seminar examines how Cognos Planning can help manage capital expenditures, providing visibility into the implications of project delay or acceleration, and project impact on corporate finances.