Enterprise Performance Management Done Right

Enterprise Performance Management Done Right: An Operating System for Your Organization (Wiley CIO)
A workable blueprint for developing and implementing performance management in order to improve revenue growth and profit margins

Enterprise performance management (EPM) technology has been rapidly advancing, especially in the areas of predictive analysis and cloud-based solutions. Real Enterprise Performance Management introduces a framework for implementing and managing next-generation functionality for better insight, focus, and alignment of EPM. This blueprint shows that EPM can have a direct positive impact on revenue growth, operating margin, asset utilization, and cash cycle efficiency.

• Introduces a framework for implementing and managing next-generation functionality for better insight, focus, and alignment
• Reveals that EPM can have a strong impact on revenue growth, operating margin, asset utilization, cash cycle efficiency

Today’s businesses have a great deal of data and technology, but less-than-fact decisions are still made. Executives need a structured framework for gathering, analyzing, and debating the best ways to deploy capital, people and time. Real Enterprise Performance Management joins IT and finance in a digestible blueprint for developing and implementing performance management in order to improve revenue growth and profit margins.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 What’s Broken and What’s Possible 1
CHAPTER 2 An Enterprise Performance Management Process 15
CHAPTER 3 Gather: Turning Data into Information 31
CHAPTER 4 Understand: Turning Insights into Actions 57
CHAPTER 5 Debate: Turning ‘‘What If” into ‘‘What’s Next” 79
CHAPTER 6 Commit: Bringing Accountability and Focus to the Enterprise 97
CHAPTER 7 Execute: From Insight to Actions to Results 111
CHAPTER 8 Strategy: Aligned to the Right Outcomes 129
CHAPTER 9 Bringing It All Together 141