Eric Krell interviews Sanjay Poonen -- senior vice president and general manager, SAP BusinessObjects performance optimization applications -- on the integration of risk management and performance management.
Ajit Kambil, Global Research Director, Deloitte's U.S. CFO Program, explains how “cost of capital” is increasingly becoming a strategic differentiator as companies with a low cost of capital begin snatching up critical assets. Meanwhile, companies with a high cost of capital are being left at the sidelines.
Five key principles distinguish successful corporate performance management initiatives from improvement programs of the past. Learn more at CPM expert Bob Paladino's new CPM Insight blog on The Big Fat Finance Blog.
In a now well-publicized buttocks kicking, Jon Stewart ripped Jim Cramer and CNBC apart on his news show and labels CNBC as a group that has self-anointed themselves as financial market experts.
While innovation and the finance function don't necessarily get associated with one another, finance's ability to provide dispassionate views into internal and external information is very helpful in creating awareness about innovation (or the lack thereof) that is occurring.
As organizations demand greater performance functionality, BPM software applications are increasingly part of a suite of offerings that continues to rapidly evolve to meet underserved areas of the enterprise.
Having completed 400 acquisitions within the past 20 years, Aon’s new CFO, Christa Davies, says that the company’s finance organization must undergo a top-to-bottom optimization before key objectives can be met.
Joey Fitts, co-author of the best-selling book Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution, details steps to improve performance management within varied organizations.
