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From Financial Rounds
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January 19, 2008 12:13 AM
- Enron-driven reforms are unraveling
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From Inside Sarbanes Oxley
January 19, 2008 12:06 AM
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- Performance Management – It's Not Just About Technology
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- Dognapping Battle Finally Over
- After much hullabaloo, a judge ordered Grace Saenz-Lopez, the dognapping former mayor of Alice, Texas, to return Puddles, the Shih Tzu she stole from her neighbors. [more]
- "Pole Tax" Declared Unconstitutional
- Texas' "pole tax," a $5-per-patron fee at the state's strip clubs, is unconstitutional, according to an Austin judge, because it violates the right to freedom of expression protected by the First Amendment. [more]
- Venice Puts Ban on Pigeon Feeding
- Visitors to Venice can no longer participate in one of its famed tourist activities -- feeding the pigeons at St Mark's Square. [more]
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Performance Management Alerts
Balancing Risk and Performance
May 8, 2008 4:33 PM
Managing enterprise risk still ranks low on finance executives' list of priorities. But it's a key differentiator of financially successful companies. "Across the board, it is clear that they [effective organizations] engage in more formal risk management activities than less effective organizations, including the use of monitoring, reporting, historical comparisons, evaluations tools, predictive analytics, risk-adjusted forecasts, and process controls," according to a study from IBM Global Business Services. To improve performance, IBM Global Businesses Services recommends that CFOs investigate techniques and disciplines that enable risk-adjusted performance management.
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Other Performance Management Alerts
- 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]
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