$35m
What the typical Fortune 1000 company could save each year by moving to an integrated planning system.
– Source: The Hackett Group
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Previous issues:
Why private equity needs performance management
—March 24, 2008
Strategic flexibility: your defense against the downturn
—March 24, 2008
The Fast Close and performance management: More than distant cousins
—March 24, 2008
Analytics: For when you absolutely, positively, need to know now
—February 8, 2008
The last mile of the Fast Close (Part 3 of 5)
—February 8, 2008
Share price going down: The real cost of poor forecasting
—February 8, 2008
Pragmatic steps to higher-quality data (Part 2 of 5)
—December 6, 2007
A beginner's guide to financial performance management (FPM)
—December 6, 2007
Planning and financial performance management: Happy together
—December 6, 2007
Fast Close and the reporting supply chain: The need for a joined-up approach
—October 24, 2007
Public roads, private investment, performance management
—October 24, 2007
Six rules for effective forecasting (according to HBR)
—October 24, 2007
Why green is good for your market cap and more
—August 29, 2007
Managing the business risks of climate change
—August 29, 2007
Bringing risk and probability together, with help from IBM
—August 29, 2007
Customer perspective: The cost of the wild at the U.S. FWS
—August 29, 2007
Four obsessions of the extraordinary executive
—July 18, 2007
When spending goes wrong, frontline managers should step in
—July 18, 2007
Pharma: A blueprint to manage clinical trial enrollment forecasting
—July 18, 2007
Customer perspective: Faster planning at all three levels
—July 18, 2007
Why faster compliance means higher performance
—June 5, 2007
Public sector planning and the path to performance
—June 5, 2007
Getting past "Eureka!" in pharma (Or, a blueprint to manage clinical trials forecasting)
—June 5, 2007
Customer perspective: Why higher forecast accuracy means better customer service
—June 5, 2007
How to make your case for performance management
—April 18, 2007
Patrick Lencioni, and the cure for "death by meeting"
—April 18, 2007
Insurance: A blueprint for managing product profitability
—April 18, 2007
Customer perspective: A blueprint is born
—April 18, 2007
Risk management: It's not just for Finance anymore
—March 7, 2007
Extreme leadership: An exclusive interview with Steve Farber
—March 7, 2007
Planning & forecasting on SAP: 5 ways to boost productivity
—March 7, 2007
Customer perspective: Flexible budgeting at the touch of a button
—March 7, 2007
The agile CFO: Enabling the innovation path to growth
—January 24, 2007
Trusted advisor or compliance enforcer?
—January 24, 2007
For retail, a blueprint for strategic merchandise planning
—January 24, 2007
Customer perspective: Innovative planning, with a side of fries
—January 24, 2007
12 principles of performance management (and 8 myths)
—November 29, 2006
The hidden best step in selecting planning software
—November 29, 2006
Investment priorities for the CFO: What the analysts say
—November 29, 2006
Customer perspective: Performance management at Manpower
—November 29, 2006
Four keys to better consolidation
—October 18, 2006
A blueprint for better management and financial reporting
—October 18, 2006
Customer perspective: Streamlined budgeting, from days to hours
—October 18, 2006
Excerpt: Transforming Performance Management
—August 30, 2006
Enterprise Planning on SAP: Five Success Factors
—August 30, 2006
Customer Perspective: Fast, Flexible Planning on SAP
—August 30, 2006
Close, Consolidate, Report: A New Performance Blueprint from Cognos and Deloitte
—August 30, 2006
Making Strategy Execution a Competitive Advantage
—July 12, 2006
Buying Time: The Risk-Based Early Warning System
—July 12, 2006
Retail: Ending the Guesswork in Store Development Planning
—July 12, 2006
Information in Perspective: An Exclusive Interview with Ted Koppel
—May 31, 2006
Are Your Best Practices Really the Best?
—May 31, 2006
HBR Excerpt: The Office of Strategy Management
—May 31, 2006
Customer Perspective: Better Budgets in a Fraction of the Time
—May 31, 2006
U.S. Banks: Spreadsheet Warriors or Scorecard Wizards?
—April 19, 2006
Surprise and the CFO: An Uneasy Mix
—April 19, 2006
Free Online Self-Assessment: Ready to Close the Gap?
—April 19, 2006
Customer Perspectives: Visibility, Control,
and the Cognos Innovation Center
—April 19, 2006
Retail Performance: A Blueprint for Better Sales
—March 1, 2006
Is Finance Wasting its Time?
—March 1, 2006
Finance and Business Intelligence: A Smart Acquisition
—February 1, 2006
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