EPM View: An Interview with John O’Rourke, Vice President of Product Marketing, Oracle Corporation

John O’Rourke, one of the most seasoned veterans of the EPM industry, offers his perspective in this candid interview with Susan Serven. John shares his views on the future of EPM, the merger of Hyperion and Oracle, the most common misconceptions of EPM, his advice for a company just starting to consider implementing a performance management system, why Balanced Scorecard may have fallen out of favor, and many other insights.

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CFO Magazine’s CPM Conference

CFO magazine’s CFO Corporate Performance Management Conference will be held in Philadelphia this year, January 27-29. CPM will present the latest thinking about the most critical aspects of finance today, from working capital management, cost modeling, and risk management to strategy and talent development.

Receive a $500 discount when you register via EPM Channel’s web site. For more info, please visit our web site and click on the CFO.com CPM link. Use discount code EPMCDSC for $500 off conference prices.

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Zen and the Art of Process Management

The ultimate success of any commercial business is its ability to generate returns for its shareholders. Achieving healthy and sustained returns requires a deep and broad understanding of customer’ needs and wants and the enterprise capability to turn these into profitable services and products. The easiest way to express this requirement in corporate objectives is through triple crown capability – the ability to increase revenues, reduce costs and enhance service simultaneously.

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Sustainability and Performance

The traditional way of measuring value and business performance of a company is changing. For an increasing number of stakeholders, financial statements and balance sheet information just isn’t enough. Emphasis is now on sustainability, especially related to reputational risk and corporate image. A sustainability incident, like discovering child labor in the global supply chain, can be extremely harmful to brand value and thus revenue and profits.

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Strategies for Better Business Insights

To: CFO Research Services From: Senior finance executives Date: Fall 2011 Re: Growth prospects   Dear CFO Research Services: You may think from our recent response to your survey questionnaire, entitled “Strategies for Better Business Insight,” that we see bright growth prospects ahead. You’d be wrong. The real picture is more complicated. Although a majority…

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8 Great Ways to Improve Quarter End Analysis

All too often, finance departments face the same challenges at the end of every reporting period—whether it’s monthend, quarter-end, or year-end. The department must prepare financial reports and statements such as balance sheets, cash flow statements, income statements, and increasingly, management reports, as well as provide information about key performance indicators. On top of that,…

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The Missing Link: Budgeting and Execution

There are two primary purposes of budgeting. The one most people think of first is to put a cap spending. But that’s only one reason why organizations (and people) budget.

The other reason why organizations budget is to ensure what’s important gets done. And let’s face it, just because something is important doesn’t mean it will get done. Unless it’s properly resourced and funded, it won’t happen. So let’s examine that crucial link between budgeting and execution.

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