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Episode 12: IT Grows Up

Can IT Grow Up?
Ade McCormack, author of The IT Value Stack, looks at the crisis of confidence within IT and outlines what teams need to learn to earn their seat at the executive table. View transcript. [Time: 9m 15s]

Standardized Reporting and Driver-Based Budgeting at Quizno's
In which Financial Reporting Manager Davis Shepherd explains the benefits of a single set of assumptions, streamlined the planning process, and improving performance in select key performance indicators. View transcript. [Time: 8m 15s]

The Billion-Dollar Dashboard at the U.S. Department of Defense
In truth it's $400 billion, with another $3.6 trillion in assets. And it's up to Tina Jonas to manage as CFO of the U.S. DoD. Some say her job is "the toughest in the world," but with help from her team and Cognos solutions, she says it's "terrific." Here's why. View transcript. [Time: 9m 42s]

Episode 11: The Analytics Episode

Analytical Competitor or Analytically Impaired?
Accenture's Jeanne Harris outlines the starting points for competing on analytics, the companies that do it right, and the crucial importance of buisness intelligence in making it all happen. View transcript. [Time: 9m 20s]

Performance Management and the Analytical Culture
Tom Davenport, The President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, explores the parallels between analytical competition and performance management, the "analytical personas" companies need to cultivate, and four ways to manage your analytics strategy. View transcript. [Time: 9m 15s]

Analytics in action in Financial Services
Laurence Trigwell, Cognos AVP Industry Marketing for Financial Serivces, explores how banks use analytics to manage compliance and drive performance, and the metrics they use to manage risk and align product, customers, and channel. View transcript. [Time: 9m 26s]

Episode 10: Focus on Forum

What's Up With Your Handshake? Mark Jeffries on Mastering Your Soft Skills
In which the communications consultant, soft skills coach, and three-time Forum host discusses his new book, how to build your personal brand, and the importance of increasing your "nods per minute." View transcript. [Time: 9m 15s]

Technology Soup: Cognos Forum Survival Tips
With more than 130 sessions and 60 exhibits, Cognos Forum gives you lots of ground to cover. Our Forum veterans share their secrets for making the most of your time, and having fun while you’re at it. View transcript. [Time: 9m 50s]

Don Tapscott: The Wiki Workplace
Forget the phone, says this year's keynote speaker. It's feeds, tags, and teleprint that drive new improvments in performance. Here, he elaborates on the trends shaping the workplace and the role for IT in driving better collaboration. View transcript. [Time: 9m 47s]

Episode 9: Performance management goes green

Riding the Green Wave: Interview with Andrew Winston
The best-selling author and management consultant translates climate change into costs and risk, identifies the green metrics that every manager should have, and outlines four ways to create value in choosing a greener path. View transcript. [Time: 09m 21s]

Green IT: Fact or Fad?
Our Technology Soup panel returns to the studio to explore the impact of energy use in the server room, the ways IT can address the issue, and the role of sustainability in your performance management goals. View transcript. [Time: 08m 58s]

Green electronics: Why reporting and recycling go hand in hand
"You put it into the marketplace, you take it out." It's the new message from consumers to IT companies. We learn which IT companies are ahead of the curve, and why they're forging a link between reporting and recycling. View transcript. [Time: 08m 48s]

Episode 8: Another Look at Performance Management

Through the eyes of the CFO: Interview with Janet Kersnar, Editor-in-Chief, CFO Europe
Finance: it's not just a numbers game anymore. Here, Janet Kersnar explains why Finance is moving beyond its bean-counting past and reaching out to provide guidance to IT, Operations, and yes, even marketing. View transcript. [Time: 10m 02s]

When reporting becomes performance management: Interview with Dave Stodder, VP and Research Director, Ventana Research
Where are you on the reporting maturity model? Hear one of the industry's foremost researchers define performance management, differentiate it from ERP, and explain why enterprise reporting is an agenda every CIO should pursue. View transcript. [Time: 10m 18s]

Becoming the performance management experts: Interview with Rob Ashe, President and CEO, Cognos
Discover the three questions every executive should ask about their business, and how a performance management system of reports and plans, scorecards, and analysis helps you answer them. Also, learn about the most common entry points to your performance management journey. View transcript. [Time: 8m 16s]

Episode 7: The Marketing Show

What's your "return on customer?" An interview with Martha Rogers, Ph.D
The best-selling author talks accountability to customers, balancing short-term goals with long-term relationships, and what marketers can learn down on the farm. View transcript. [Time: 9m 25s]

How KnowledgeStorm makes its customers smarter
It's one thing to provide your content to thousands of potential buyers. It's a new order of value when you can tell your customers which offers they really want to see. View transcript. [Time: 9m 02s]

The marketer's new mandate: Investment advisor to the business
We talk to Meg Dussault, co-author of The Performance Manager, about the information sweet spots marketers need to succeed in the race for customers' hearts, minds, and wallets. View transcript. [Time: 9m 31s]

Episode 6: Love and other killer apps

"Biz Love" and business success: An interview with Tim Sanders
We talk to the celebrated author of Love is the Killer App about personal growth, raising one's "L-Factor," and the ways performance management puts an end to suffering. View transcript. [Time: 9m 15s]

Passion and performance in the Office of Finance
Can Finance and IT really share a passion for better results? Patrik Schinzel, Chief Controller at Sweden's Folksam Insurance Group and an award-winning Cognos customer, explains why the answer is an unconditional "yes." View transcript. [Time: 9m 50s]

Losing love, and finding it again: Mobile security and the BlackBerry®.
Thousands of BlackBerries® go missing each year. Was yours one of them? Listen to Cognos product managers about the innovative security features of Cognos 8 Go! Mobile. View transcript. [Time: 9m 43s]

Episode 5: Perspectives on Leadership

Patrick Lencioni: The four obessions of the extraordinary executive
Cohesion. Clarity. Communication. Support. We learn why they're the hallmarks of a healthy company, and the primacy of performance management in executive "obsessions." View transcript. [Time: 10m 08s]

Becoming a Performance Manager
Is there a difference between management and leadership? What separates Performance Managers from the rest of the pack? We talk to the authors of The Performance Manager to get the answers. View transcript. [Time: 9m 32s]

Fiskars Brands: Building a market-leading supply chain
First, it's OLAP for sales. Next, supplier scorecards for purchasing and forecasting. Finally, extend the info to A/R and credit. Add IBM and training and watch performance improve at every stage. View transcript. [Time: 9m 09s]

Episode 4: Tales from the Trenches

Baxter & Deloitte: Connecting forecast accuracy to investor opinion
In which we learn why it's important to involve R&D in the forecasting process, and why you need to "neutralize the naysayers" to performance management projects. View transcript. [Time: 9m 20s]

University of Wollongong: Balanced Scorecards and "BI Cadets"
Learn how one of Australia's top schools built its balanced scorecard and its innovative approach to recruiting top BI talent. View transcript. [Time: 9m 05s]

District of Columbia Office of Budgeting & Planning: From painful planning to a round of applause
Listen as John Nitz, former director of Information systems and operations describes an eight-year journey from access databases to executive dashboards. View transcript. [Time: 10m 26s]

Episode 3: Meetings & Mobility

Patrick Lencioni: The cure for the common meeting
Good meetings are like good movies, says author and management consultant Patrick Lencioni. We learn the reasons why, the four types of meetings every company should have, and why having the right information should be on everyone's agenda.
View transcript. [Time: 10m 01s]

Technology Soup: The "Buzz" on mobility
Is there anywhere you can't work? Is there anywhere you wouldn't work? Mobile devices pack in more features than ever, making us more productive wherever we are. Our panel is back for an adventure in mobility. View transcript. [Time: 9m 28s]

Jim Balsillie: Mobile performance management
As a wireless email device, the BlackBerry® changed the way people communicate. As a BI device, it could change the way people manage their business as well. We speak with Jim Balsillie, Chairman and Co-CEO of Research in Motion, about the value of business intelligence to the BlackBerry® user. View transcript. [Time: 9m 14s]

Episode 2: Performance Management: In theory, in practice, and in place of business as usual.

David Axson: Building a more flexible Office of Finance
Renowned author and Innovation Center advisor David Axson explains why traditional forecasting practices are obsolete, how to liberate analysts from their spreadsheets, and the value of benchmarking in performance management. View transcript.
[Time: 9m 47s]

BestBuy: Performance management in practice
We all know Best Buy as the best place to find the best gadgets. But few people know about its use of best practices in performance management. Senior Financial Analyst Jean Nitchals gives us some insight into the values of speed and simplicity. View transcript.
[Time: 9m 107s]

A Primer on Performance Blueprints
With more than 20 now available for both industry and function, Cognos Performance Blueprints give Finance a jump-start in planning and a direct link to performance management. We look at the ideas that gave rise to them, and the reasons they're so popular. View transcript.
[Time: 9m 32s]

Episode 1: Innovation & Transformation

How to become an "Extreme Leader"
Author and Cognos Forum keynote speaker Steve Farber speaks with us about his book, "The Radical Edge." View transcript.
[Time: 9m 35s]

Technology Soup panel
Our panelists discuss the influence of consumer technologies on corporate IT and how they're changing the way we work. View transcript.
[Time: 9m 14s]

Innovation: The New Mandate
From whipped dessert yogurt to ready-mix concrete, innovation is a top priority in 2007. We look at why companies must innovate, different ways they can do it, and the breakthrough results they can achieve when they do it right. View transcript.
[Time: 8 m 55s]

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