The birth of “Performance Management” 2007
Consolidation of an entire industry
2007 has been quite an amazing year for the market of Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management. More than 15 billion $ was spent in Mergers & Acquisitions, mainly by the software industry giants SAP, Oracle & IBM, to acquire the crown jewels of the BI & CPM market. Rarely a complete industry consolidated that quickly, but then again ... the stakes are high. (more..)

Seven ways to Revitalize your Organization's Performance Management Solution
How to aim towards the optimal return of investment in using a performance management solution? From my experience, here are the top seven ways to instantly revitalize your organization’s performance management solution: (more..)

Master Data Management: Utopia or necessity?
Master Data Managements as part of performance management seems an ultimate solution. Is master data management an utopia or it a necessity. (more..)

Measurement Software - now what?
Many organisations are investing in performance measurement software to help display their data. But, how many know what they should be measuring in the first place, or how to get real understanding from the data they have? (more..)

You didn't use brainstorming to select your measures, did you?
When Alex Osborn invented the creativity technique called brainstorming, I wonder if he had any idea just how extensively business would apply it. Almost every meeting employs some kind of brainstorming event, but there’s one meeting that really should leave it off the agenda: the performance measure selection meeting. (more..)

How IT Benefits From Adopting Measurement-Management Techniques
There is no question that IT will benefit significantly through the adoption of measurement-management techniques. CIO objectives are identical to those of their business peers: superior financial performance, the delivery of high valued services that meet the current and future needs of their customer communities, the achievement of a best-in-class organization. While every CIO seeks to achieve these objectives, in today’s tight economy they may not be seen as doing so. There are a number of reasons for this, which can be overcome through the aggressive use of measurement-management techniques. (more..)

IT Metrics for the Information Age
The roles of the CIO and the IT organization have changed significantly as we moved into the Information Age. IT has become one of the most important, if not the most important, strategic enabler to business. In many businesses IT has become the driver of strategic initiatives. Most would agree that IT’s rise in importance has brought with it an obligation to optimize and report on IT’s performance. In order to do this IT organizations must rethink the way they do this today. (more..)

Extend your Balanced Scorecard Across the Supply Chain
While many companies are recognizing the value of employing a BSC within their organization, it is now important to consider the potential of utilizing the BSC approach across multiple companies: a Multi-enterprise approach. BSC can be extended to enable the performance of a collection of constituents in a value chain. If your ability to compete is contingent on the strength of your supply chain, there is no better place to take this winning methodology. (more..)

Trends in Corporate Performance Measures
Corporate performance measures are swiftly evolving. Where will this evolution take corporations, boards and shareholders next? In this interview, Dr. Frost summarizes current trends and predicts what we will see in future performance measures. (more..)