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Husband and Wife Each Win the Lottery: A Wisconsin couple got doubly lucky over the weekend. [more]
South Korean Officials Put Away Their Putters: South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak has told officials to put away their golf clubs, at least until the economy improves, because it sends the wrong signal to the public. [more]
Typo Fixers Get Probation: Two men traveling the United States on a mission to remove typographical errors from public signs have been banned from national parks for a year. [more]
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Performance Management Alerts

A Path Through the Information Maze: Businesses churn out vast volumes of information; the average management report contains 12,000 to 15,000 data points. [more]
Finance in the Flat World: Earlier this year, global consulting and services firm Accenture published the latest in a series of studies of high performance in the finance function, focusing on the challenges and opportunities presented by globalization. [more]
BPM Enters the Age of Carbon Finance: As green projects and sustainability reporting take hold, companies will be looking to their CFOs to ensure that disclosures are accurate and that initiatives benefit the bottom line as well as the state of the planet. [more]
Performance Management in a Nutshell: If you're searching for a basic explanation of performance management, look no further. [more]
Strategy Execution Requires a Management System: Companies need more than a good strategy to be successful. [more]
BI Competency Center Aids Implementation: As the amount of data companies must store continues to grow, managing the information effectively has become more important than ever, according to a new report from IDC. [more]
A Guide to Evaluating Best Practices: Following proven business methodologies can improve a company's performance, but often these so-called best practices fail to live up to their flattering handle. [more]
Weather the Economic Downturn with BI and BPM: In an economic downturn, cutting costs may not be enough to keep you in the black. [more]
Separating Capital From Results Improves Performance: Companies can only effectively manage their performance when they separate the capital they use in their activities from the results those activities produce, according to management consultant Harry Greene. [more]
Search Engines Improve Business Intelligence: The Internet has changed people's perspective on how they should be able to access information, including their expectations for business intelligence (BI) search capabilities. [more]
Your Allies in Tough Economic Times: BI and BPM: As they chart a course through today's choppy economic waters, companies often overlook two of their most powerful navigational instruments -- their business intelligence (BI) and business performance management (BPM) systems. [more]
Enterprise Systems Create Value: Successful implementations of enterprise systems drive corporate financial performance, according to new research from Accenture. [more]
CFOs and CMOs Collaborate on Performance Management: On the traditional corporate organizational chart, chief marketing officers' and chief financial officers' paths seldom cross, but today's market environment necessitates cooperation. [more]
Spending on BI and BPM Should Reach $57.1 Billion: Despite a weak economy, the business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) technologies and services industry continues to grow. [more]
Asian Companies Lagging in BPM: Business performance management hasn't caught on as quickly among Asia Pacific companies as it has among North American and European organizations, for reasons that throw an interesting light on Asia's unique business culture. [more]
Risk-Adjusted Performance: A Primer: CFOs can play a key role in developing a realistic, risk-aware performance management strategy to help their organization neutralize threats, exploit opportunities, and avoid nasty surprises. [more]
Improve Strategy Through Better Metrics: Organizations that design their performance management strategy based on what metrics are readily available and easy to gather fail to reap the greatest benefits from their information assets. [more]
Dashboard Basics Explained: Dashboards are a core part of any BPM initiative because they allow companies to measure and manage their performance. [more]
Can BI Help You Go Green?: Business intelligence software provider SAS Institute Inc is now offering a module that it claims will help companies measure and manage their environmental impact. [more]
Performance Management in the Public Sector: A new study on government and public sector performance management has found that many public sector organizations have performance initiatives in place, but the results are often hindered by poor management. [more]