8.8%
Percentage increase in tech spending European CFOs expect to see, relative to the previous 12 months.
– Source: First Quarter 2008 Duke University/CFO magazine Global Business Outlook survey
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Best practices
Are Your Best Practices Really the Best?
—May 31, 2006
Customer Perspectives: Visibility, Control,
and the Cognos Innovation Center
—April 19, 2006
Is Finance Wasting its Time?
—March 1, 2006
Planning, budgeting, and forecasting
When spending goes wrong, frontline managers should step in
—July 18, 2007
Customer perspective: Faster planning at all three levels
—July 18, 2007
Public sector planning and the path to performance
—June 5, 2007
Customer perspective: Why higher forecast accuracy means better customer service
—June 5, 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
Customer perspective: Innovative planning, with a side of fries
—January 24, 2007
The hidden best step in selecting planning software
—November 29, 2006
Customer perspective: Streamlined budgeting, from days to hours
—October 18, 2006
Customer Perspective: Fast, Flexible Planning on SAP
—August 30, 2006
Compliance/Consolidation
Customer perspective: Building a transparent audit trail
—April 18, 2007
Why faster compliance means higher performance
—June 5, 2007
SOX Bringing Business Benefits, say CIOs
—August 30, 2006
Close, Consolidate, Report: A New Performance Blueprint from Cognos and Deloitte
—August 30, 2006
IT Gears Up for Compliance
—March 1, 2006
Four keys to better consolidation
—October 18, 2006
Performance Blueprints
Pharma: A blueprint to manage clinical trial enrollment forecasting
—July 18, 2007
Getting past "Eureka!" in pharma (Or, a blueprint to manage clinical trials forecasting)
—June 5, 2007
Insurance: A blueprint for managing product profitability
—April 18, 2007
Customer perspective: A blueprint is born
—April 18, 2007
For retail, a blueprint for strategic merchandise planning
—January 24, 2007
A blueprint for better management and financial reporting
—October 18, 2006
Close, Consolidate, Report: A New Performance Blueprint from Cognos and Deloitte —August 30, 2006
Retail: Ending the Guesswork in Store Development Planning
—July 12, 2006
Retail Performance: A Blueprint for Better Sales
—March 1, 2006
Defense: a blueprint for program objective memorandum planning
—October 18, 2006
For Manufacturing, A Blueprint for Better Sales & Operations Planning
—August 30, 2006
Strategy management
Making Strategy Execution a Competitive Advantage
—July 12, 2006
HBR Excerpt: The Office of Strategy Management
—May 31, 2006
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