Banking

For your Department: Executive Management

Executive Management bears the ultimate responsibility for the success or failure of the bank. Yet this senior team must work largely by indirect means: setting goals and communicating strategy; strengthening the organizational culture; recruiting senior talent and building teams; and determining how to allocate capital, especially for long-term priorities.

• Poor vertical visibility of performance drivers
• Unclear ownership of performance goals and accountability for them at the front line
• Poor horizontal visibility of cross-functional alignment and coordination
• Current executive information capabilities do not support the non-linear and iterative nature of decision-making/management processes.

• Performance:
• Financial management: Are we performing to shareholder expectations?
• Operational revenue management: Are we driving revenue growth effectively?
• Operational expense management: Are we managing operational expenses effectively?
• Long-term assets management: Are we managing long-term assets effectively to increase future revenue and expense management capabilities?
• Risk management: Are we managing the risks of sustaining this performance?
• Compliance management: Are we complying with regulatory requirements?

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The Performance Manager is just one of many great resources Cognos offers to help executives make better decisions. Additional downloads include:

• CPM brochure "Raise the Level of Performance": Find out how integrated BI, planning, and scorecarding creates better performance management.


• Smart Companies: Read how customers are using Cognos to improve performance.


• Customer Successes:


• Read how HSBC Hong Kong used Cognos to unite systems and processes and reduce reporting time from seven weeks to seven seconds.


• Find out how Unicredit integrated 90 data sources to create an award-winning environment for modeling and managing risk.


• Find out how Bank of America uses performance management software from Cognos for forecasts, regulatory and management reports, and to calculate reserve requirements.

Additional Resources:

Enterprise Analystics - Leveraging your Data Warehouse Investment: Risk Cockpit

Online Demo

Demonstration of the IBM-Cognos Banking Risk Management Cockpit Solution.

Planning in the Financial Services Industry

White Paper

Find out the technology and best practices for effective budgeting, forecasting, planning, and reporting.

Cognos and Risk Management: Managing Risk Through Business Intelligence

Online Demo

See how business intelligence can help you analyze and report on risk exposure in your company.

Gartner - Toolkit Case Study: Unicredit Leverages BI to Create a New Business Model

Success Story

Find out how Unicredit integrated 90 data sources to create an award-winning environment for modeling and managing risk.

Rapid Scorecarding for financial services

White Paper

Find out the value of scorecarding and the five key steps to creating an effective one.

Cognos Virtual Finance Forum June 4, 2008

Web Link

Practical advice and proven practices to help you solve financial performance management challenges. Access compelling conference sessions, speakers, partner solutions, customer case studies and a wide range of product and solution exhibits. Plus, get expert advice from Thomas Davenport – the world renowned thought-leader on competing with business analytics, and Bryan Hall, Managing Director and Finance Practice Leader at The Hackett Group.

IBM Cognos 8 BI Reporting

Online Demo

See real-world reporting scenarios for casual business users and professional report authors.

Customer profitability in real-world banking: A large global bank finds simple ways to make customers more profitable

White Paper

Read this paper to understand how large banks are leveraging BI to making their customers more profitable.

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