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The World
of BPM is constantly changing and BPM Partners
wants to keep you informed. This newsletter brings
together the latest news and commentary related
to Business Performance Management.
| Excellence
in Finance - Performance Management |
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 What
Finance Must Do to Move the Needle
This CFO Conference will be held at the Plaza
Hotel in New York from February 8
- 10, 2004 . Craig Schiff of BPM
Partners will participate in a panel discussion
on the Challenges of Performance Management.
Also speaking will be Robert Kaplan of the
Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, John Hagerty
of AMR Research, and CFOs from leading organizations.
Learn
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| How
NOT to Buy an OLAP/BPM Product |
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The
consequences of picking the wrong tool can
be quite severe: At worst, the project will
be a complete failure, with all the software
and services costs written off, and the
loss of the hoped-for business benefits.
The total losses could be in the
millions . More typically, some
vestige of the project will survive, so
that the culprits can claim it as a "success"
and quietly move on to other things. But
the scope will be reduced, the deployment
minimal and the benefits illusory .
Such projects are all too common, and are
in some ways worse than the first category,
because there is less incentive to replace
the failed system, and so the potential
business benefits are lost for even longer.
Some projects have grand ambitions for enterprise
deployment, but never make it beyond
the first departmental application .
Read what not to do in your search for a
BPM solution.
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the article » |
| How
to Move Beyond Budgeting |
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 Research
has found that the traditional budgeting practice
is the root cause of many organizations' current
problems. These businesses need to replace
their budgeting process with management tools
that offer continuous planning and adaptive
control. Budgets and the command-and-control
structure that supports them should be replaced
by lean, adaptive, and ethical processes operated
by front-line workers.
Read
the article » |
| See
it Now: Dashboards and Scorecards |
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| New budgeting-and-planning
software offers increasingly sophisticated
visual aids: dashboards and scorecards. The
dashboards are selling, too. According to
a June survey of 100 companies conducted by
AMR Research, nearly 50 percent of respondents
said they will (or plan to) roll out dashboards
in the coming months.
Read
the article » |
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New
Look, New Services |
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Same
seasoned team, same low-cost/high-value
service philosophy. The new logo and redesigned
website should make it easier for you to
find us and find what you need. These two
new services should make it easier for you
to get started with BPM:
BPM Audit and Roadmap Workshop
- evaluate where you are, learn where BPM
can take you, see how to get there. This
intensive 2-day onsite workshop will provide
you with everything you need to get your
BPM project off the ground and moving in
the right direction.
Requirements Collection and Analysis
- gather stakeholder needs, test
for feasibility, identify missed BPM benefits,
review existing systems and identify the
gaps. This customizable package assists
you with what is often the toughest part
of a BPM project - determining the strategic
goals, business drivers, key stakeholders,
and the requirements and metrics that flow
out of those decisions.
See
the New Look and Service Details |
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