Corporate Performance Management Blog

Blog posts on Corporate Performance Management developments and best-practices.

Written by Rutger van den Berg   
Thursday, 25 February 2010 22:02
Competing on Analytics: 10 Steps Recommended by TDWI

Being an analytic company can be considered a key capability in gaining and maintaining a competitive advantage. Organizations need to move beyond reporting and improve their operations and decision-making by deploying a more analytic way of thinking and working. The problem is that few companies know where to begin.

Wayne Eckerson, a director at The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI), published a ten-step guide for launching and sustaining...

Read more: Competing on Analytics: 10 Steps Recommended by TDWI
 
Discuss...
 
Written by Eugene Steijger   
Monday, 23 November 2009 12:51
Import choices in developing dashboards

In a dashboard (performance management) solution the available space per screen is limited in relation to the information you want to display. How do you make the available information facilitate the analysis process of users? 

In my opinion there are a couple of area's that play a crucial role:Selection and combination of informationLayers built into the solutionLayout of the screens and structure of the solutionUse of objectsScreen formatting...

Read more: The Use of Objects in Dashboard Development
 
Discuss...
   
Written by Bart van Onzen   
Tuesday, 01 September 2009 06:27
The effective and efficient control of real estate and asset management can be improved with a well functioning reporting, planning and budgeting system. Not as holy grail, but as a support to people, who can make decisions on a more reliable and accurate basis. 

Introduction

In general a lot of organizations have information management based on different source systems delivering their own set of information, which are combined and reconciled in an Excel environment. Mostly these types of...

Read more: Corporate Performance Management for Property Finance
 
Discuss...
   
Written by Rutger van den Berg   
Wednesday, 25 March 2009 00:00
How Leading Companies are Dealing with the Need for Cost Management and Value Enhancement

In light of the worldwide economic downturn companies are faced with the challenge to improve or maintain their bottomline margins. Topline growth today is difficult, so the focus is on operational cost management and cost efficiency. At last week's CFO Conference, several CFO's from leading companies presented their approach to cost management, cost efficiency and value enhancement.

This blog...

Read more: Cost Management and Value Enhancement in Times of Crisis
 
Discuss...
   
Written by Rutger van den Berg   
Thursday, 19 February 2009 00:00
How to use the power of cost management to stay competitive in today's environment

Over the years CPMview consultants have been involved in numerous projects to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of cost management. Around the change of the century we have seen many projects for implementation of Activity Based Costing. More often than not these failed due to the bureaucracy involved in keeping the ABC system up and running. The last few years has seen an increased interest in strategic...

Read more: Do's and Don'ts of Cost Management, Cost Reduction and Cost Analysis
 
Discuss...

   

Page 1 of 6

<< Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next > End >>