From Duke University/CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook Survey(with links to how we help CFOs visualize and address the issue)1. Ability to forecast results2. Working-capital management3. Maintaining morale/productivity…
Properly done BI or dashboard requirements interviews should leave person wanting to keep going, not looking at their watch. @markmadsen Exactly! that's why we created the Periodic…
Today’s WSJ had an entire pull-out section dedicated to the Future of Financehttps://futurefinance.wsj.com/ . These are the findings from last week’s Future of Finance Initiative meetings in…
We concur with the findings of the recent IT priorities poll conducted by InformationWeek Analytics and Intelligent Enterprise.com - it mirrors what’s true with our clients as…
Today’s WSJ has it’s ever-popular MIT Sloan Management School Business Insights section. There’s an article by Dr. Martin Roth (prof. of int’l business & chief innovation &…
My friend Toby Hatch of Oracle (formerly of Hyperion and Sapling) has been doing scorecards for a LONG time. She came up with this a few years…
Frank Buytendijk of Oracle has unveiled the True Value Index (TVI) in the latest issue of the Journal of Management Excellence at:http://www.oracle.com/solutions/business_intelligence/docs/journal-of-management-excellence-2009-feb.pdfThe formula is straight forward:TVI =…
Berkshire Hathaway released Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders on Friday (Feb 27), you can find it here:It's a fascinating business read about fear, responsibility, and opportunity.…
We were asked about what we’ve seen are some of the barriers to effective strategy execution and shared the following:1. No vetting of the strategy to see…
Oracle’s EPM Strategy group has recently introduced the domain of ‘management excellence.’ This is taking the ideas of operational excellence (process, efficiency, etc.) into management.There are several…
