Interview with Mark Smith By Mark Smith, Ventana Research Mark Smith explores the performance management trends and issues facing finance organizations and the impact of recent market consolidation among financial management software providers.
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Best Practices in Revenue Reporting
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A Financial Risk Management Primer
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Interview with Susan F. Shultz and Cheryl de Mesa Graziano
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Business Performance Management 2006 Research Agenda: Aligning people, processes and technology can improve results
Ventana Research defines performance management as optimizing business processes while aligning them with organizational strategy. Organizations usually do not implement “performance management”; they put together a series of individual projects aimed at improving their results. While we view performance management as a single high-level concept, it applies to business in many different ways. It is a consistent discipline that employs a common set of IT techniques and elements in specific business initiatives. These initiatives include planning, using scorecards, compliance management, compensation management and others. All of them require some level of IT resources and systems to provide information, facilitate analysis and support execution (especially collaboration), but usually each initiative will be the responsibility of individual managers.
The CFO Project Volume 2, 10/1/2003