If your enterprise heavily relies on spreadsheets for data collection and analysis, your business may need a new solution. The spreadsheet only process was an excellent tool in the 1980’s before technological advances and cloud-based performance management tools emerged. The challenges businesses face today are numerous and complex, without dealing with […]
Benjamin Goewey
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To achieve sustained growth and gain a competitive advantage, companies need to be able to use analytics and business intelligence to develop actionable, data-driven insights. Unfortunately, analytics is not a one-size-fits-all solution. The business manager, business analyst, and executive all have different needs when it comes to analytics and business […]
What lessons can our busy, modern business execs learn from events from the mid-19th century? To find out more, let’s pick up on this excerpt from a late night conversation over hot cocoa and donuts taken from a surveillance scanner at the Bat Cave between Batman and Robin. ROBIN: Holy […]
With the growing volumes of data and report requirements from both regulators and stakeholders, organizations are feeling the pain of having to produce internal and external reports as well as managing the financial disclosure processes effectively. In order to produce these reports, finance professionals are manually copying data from disparate […]
Proper financial management is the core of efficient, successful business operations. By utilizing integrated budgeting and planning strategies, organizations are able to respond quickly to change, pinpoint performance gaps, gather clear insight into new objectives, view impactful performance targets and contingency plans, foster improved communication with stakeholders, and capture a […]
Business organizations of all types are increasingly using Scorecards as a tool to help their company track and reach organizational goals. So what exactly is Scorecarding? Scorecarding Scorecarding for strategy management is a way to share company goals with all employees, and keep them up-to-date on how well the organization […]
Experts agree that planning, budgeting, and forecasting are essential parts of any enterprise’s success. But many decision-makers still fail to plan properly and thoroughly to put them on the right track. Those who do, enjoy a system that runs more smoothly, avoiding costly accounting errors and securing a more desirable […]
The most successful enterprises approach performance management through a strategic impact lens – understanding that a complex, uncertain environment demands agility, organization-wide alignment, and technology and systems that support achieving goals and outcomes. Many companies are more effective in the technical and operational arenas than in strategic workforce deployment. Although […]
As the pace of business grows ever faster, users require better and faster data access more than ever before to support accurate decisions. Companies no longer have the luxury of waiting for IT to deliver customer reports or handcrafted dashboards for each user. In reality, customized dashboards were never capable […]
Many businesses today are beginning to understand the importance of analytics. The data a company generates requires collection and analysis for it to be acted upon. This is true whether the business is producing bottle tops or installing fiber optic services. Knowing how the business is running now and where […]