Corporate Performance Management Blog

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

Written by Bart van Onzen   
Friday, 30 March 2007 17:35
Reporting financial results faster and more accurately

We’ve helped many companies with their efforts to improve their financial close, consolidation, and reporting processes. Here are some of the key lessons we’ve learned along the way:1. Break down the process.

It is easy to become overwhelmed with the notion of making improvements to such a complex and dependency-oriented business process when you have to deal with the issues associated with activities such as multiple-tiered...

Read more: How to Drive More Value Through Financial Close and Reporting Improvement
 
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Written by Damien Wiegman   
Tuesday, 06 March 2007 15:28

As an opposite to the 'soft side' of performance management, this article emphasizes more the financial/technical side of performance management. The article elaborates on how to close the books in a structured manner. CPMview consultants have done a lot of fast close implementations which helps control, speed up and even automate processes that are currently manual or involve input from people or other systems in your finance department, beyond finance or even from outside organizations.

Read more: What Is The Close-Consolidate-Report Process And What Is Its Value Proposition?
 
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Written by Edwin van den Broek   
Thursday, 22 February 2007 13:05
Realizing the Benefits of Corporate Performance Management

A primary goal of performance management is getting people within the organization to do what they’re supposed to do. A number of “soft” techniques can help achieve this goal. Strong executive sponsorship. Communication. Training. Change management. But in the end, the key to success is aligning all aspects of performance management with things people can understand and personally control. Alignment is a simple concept, but...

Read more: Organizational Alignment and Accountability
 
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Written by Paul van Erk   
Sunday, 21 January 2007 00:00
In the McKinsey Quarterly a good article was published about how to measue performance in service-oriented organizations. Services are more difficult to measure and monitor than manufacturing processes, but executives can rein in variance and boost productivity if they implement rigorous metrics.

Faced with stiffening competition, increasingly demanding customers, high labor costs, and, in some markets, slowing growth, service businesses around the world are trying to boost their...

Read more: Measuring Performance in Services
 
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Written by Rutger van den Berg   
Wednesday, 22 November 2006 00:00

Last week I attended the FSI Practitioners Day, a meeting of professionals working in the Financial Services Industry. I was invited to make a presentation on the relevance of CPM for companies in the financial services industry (banking, insurance, hedge funds, pension funds etc.). I posed the statement that CPM in today's business environment is mission-critical for the financial services industry. A number of observations led me to this conclusion.

Read more: CPM in the Financial Services Industry
 
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