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 […]
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A company’s ability to effectively execute the process of budgeting, forecasting and planning is a huge driver of corporate success. As you know, there are many difficulties that can interfere with such processes in many organizations. A ponderous manual budget process combined with the problematic coordination with line managers often […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dealing with dates in Cognos can sometimes be a daunting task. Dates should be straightforward, but sometimes they take extra work to get what you want. Your data is designed to list the date of the transaction, but maybe you only care about data on a per week, per month, […]
I was wandering around YouTube one weekend looking for something mentally stimulating when I came across the Monty Hall problem. For those who are not familiar, the problem is named after the host of the gameshow Let’s Make A Deal. On the show, there was a game where the contestant […]