Performance Blueprints

Web Seminar Descriptions:

#1 IBM Cognos Linking Strategy to Execution with Performance Performance Blueprints (Introduction to the Series)

Effective implementation of best practices in planning, budgeting, and forecasting can be daunting. Simple, integrated, accurate, and dynamic plans that link strategy to execution shouldn’t seem a lot to ask—yet most organizations are mired in overly complex and time-consuming planning processes that are of little value.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. David Axson, author of the book Best Practices in Planning and Management Reporting, and Tony Levy, Cognos product marketing director, show how best-practice thinking and technology enablement can streamline and revamp planning processes in an increasingly uncertain business environment:

Learn how to:

• Align corporate objectives with individual operating plans across the enterprise.
• Link plans to both market events and operational drivers.
• Shorten the planning cycle, increase the likelihood of success, and accelerate the time-to-value.

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

This Web seminar will introduce you to IBM 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.

Series topics include:

• Strategic Financial Planning and Forecasting
• Sales Planning and Forecasting
• Headcount and Compensation Planning
• Expense Planning and Control
• Capital Expenditure Planning

The Blueprints are developed by the Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management in collaboration with many of our leading customers.

#3 IBM Cognos Headcount and Compensation Performance Blueprint

Part of the Blueprint series, this Web seminar examines how Cognos Planning can help manage employee headcount, compensation, and benefits costs.

Learn how to:

• Align departmental workforce decisions with corporate financial objectives.
• Support cost center managers’ headcount and compensation decisions for new and existing employees.
• Link salary and headcount projections as drivers for other expense plan items.

The Blueprints are developed by the Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management in collaboration with many of our leading customers.

#4 IBM Cognos Expense Planning and Control Performance Blueprint

Part of the Blueprint series, this Web seminar examines how Cognos Planning can help align management decisions and actions with future overhead expenditures to ensure accuracy, reliability, and control using a driver-based methodology.

Learn how to:

• Capture, aggregate, and evaluate monthly expense forecasts from across the enterprise.
• Integrate the expense planning process into the corporate integrated financials.
• Rapidly align expenses with strategic objectives.

The Blueprints are developed by the Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management in collaboration with many of our leading customers.

#5 IBM Cognos Capital Expenditure Planning Performance Blueprint

Part of the 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.

Learn how to:

• Help cost-center managers assess capital asset needs, forecast capital spending, and comply with corporate procurement policies.
• Help project owners manage capital project justification, spending projections, and the approval process.
• Integrate the capital expenditure planning process into the corporate integrated financials.

The Blueprints are developed by the Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management in collaboration with many of our leading customers.

#6 IBM Cognos Sales Planning and Forecasting Performance Blueprint

Part of the Blueprint series, this seminar examines how Cognos Planning can help establish an effective, intuitive, and integrated sales forecasting process.

Attendees will learn how the Cognos Sales Planning and Forecasting Blueprint can:

• Help manage revenues by customer account and by product.
• Produce immediate profitability information by customer and by product.
• Integrate the sales planning process into supply chain forecasts, headcount projections, sales compensation planning, and integrated financials.

The Blueprints are developed by the Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management in collaboration with many of our leading customers.