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- Managing Strategy With the Balanced Scorecard: How to Convert Strategic Planning Into Action
- Using the Balanced Scorecard, thousands of organizations around the globe have overcome the discouraging odds of strategy implementation by focusing on what is critical to success, alignment from top to bottom, and informed resource allocation decisions. As the tool has evolved over the past 15 years from measurement system to...
- Tags: Strategic Planning, Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Management, Strategy, Marketing, Marketing Research, Management
- Webcasts
- Portal Solution Helps Consultant Firm Improve Knowledge Management
- German strategic management consulting firm SMP AG historically supported its operations with a file server system built on Microsoft technology. As the company grew, there were only organisational rules for information management; however, they were not supported by formal processes and IT-Infrastructure for information storage. Information was stored in separate...
- Tags: Knowledge, Microsoft Corp., File Server, File Servers, Strategic Management, Storage Management, Portals, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Internet, Management
- Case studies
- Oracle Case Study: Internal Revenue Service
- Like most government agencies, the Internal Revenue Service is feeling the pain of tight budgets. Also of concern was meeting the goals set by the President's Management Agenda of 2002, which included strategic management of human capital, expanded electronic government, improved financial management, and budget and performance integration. In addition,...
- Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Internal Revenue Service, Human Capital, Strategic Management, Performance Management, Financial Management, Business Intelligence, Government, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Financial Planning, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- tesa Secures Efficient Sales Reporting With SAP Business Intelligence
- Headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and a member of the Beiersdorf Group, tesa AG ranks as one of the world's leading suppliers of self-adhesive products. With some 58 subsidiaries spanning Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Americas, tesa places a great deal of importance on customers and pays strict attention to market...
- Tags: SAP BW, SAP AG, Tesa, Sales Strategy, Strategic Management, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- Case studies
- Development of the 3rd Generation Balanced Scorecard, Part I
- This paper describes the changes to the definition of the Balanced Scorecard that have occurred since it became popular as a performance measurement framework during the early 1990s. The paper builds on earlier work by the authors that characterised such definitions into three distinct generations of Balanced Scorecard. The paper...
- Tags: Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Management, Marketing, Marketing Research
- White papers
- Using the Balanced Scorecard to Improve State & Local Government Performance
- Pressures on governments around the world have contributed to the rising adoption of "performance management and measurement" - a focus on program and service outputs and outcomes, and on "managing for results". Specifically, state and local governments are becoming increasingly accountable for results and the cost-effective use of taxpayer money...
- Tags: Webcast, Performance, Balanced Scorecard, Government, Strategic Management, Vertical Industries, Marketing, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts
- The Evolution of Office Work
- On Demand Business both requires and drives fundamental, systemic changes in the way businesses operate. These changes span the entire spectrum of business activity, from customer communication to supplier interaction, from component manufacture to strategic management. Their impact is felt from the minute-to-minute activities of each and every worker right...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Supplier, Channel Management, Strategic Management, Marketing
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Business Intelligence Technical Overview
- Today's managers and data analysts are inundated with information and under time constraints to make key business decisions. They need visual cues to identify the latest business trends and then make both operational and strategic management decisions. All of which must be shared with the right people throughout the enterprise....
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Strategic Management, Pricing, Leadership, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Oracle Business Intelligence 10g Technical Overview
- Oracle Business Intelligence continues to enhance the industry leading Oracle database platform with capabilities to support business intelligence systems. Today's managers and data analysts are inundated with information and under time constraints to make key business decisions. They need visual cues to identify the latest business trends and then make...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle Business Intelligence, Strategic Management, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Leadership, Databases, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Dashboards and Scorecards: Executive Information Systems for the Public Sector
- Web-based technologies are ushering in a new era of public management by disseminating information to key decision makers through portals known as executive information systems EIS. This paper describes the concept of EIS, identifies the features and functions of leading products, and discusses how EIS can promote strategic management in...
- Tags: Information System, Government Finance Officers Association, Dashboard, Strategic Management, Portals, Leadership, Strategy, Web Technology, Internet, Management
- White papers 2001-12-01
Additional Resources
- SAS Intelligence Solutions for Education: SAS Strategic Performance Management
- SAS Strategic Performance Management can help to maintain control of the information needed to ensure long-term success. This Web-based application designs, builds and manages scorecards, dashboards and diagrams so one can communicate goals and strategies, monitor performance against targets and identify opportunities for improvement. The attendee of this webcast will...
- Tags: Education, Performance, SAS Institute, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Webcasts
- Strategic Supply Management: Creating the Next Source of Competitive Advantage
- This webcast offers a roadmap of what it means to practice strategic supply management. No longer a transactional activity, supply management is about creating and sustaining new sources of competitive advantage. The presenter explains how to create a supply management organization that can be counted on to deliver reliable sources...
- Tags: Competitive Advantage, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts 2008-03-05
- Improving the Budgeting Process With Strategic Resource Planning and Budgeting
- This seminar discusses beyond Activity-Based Planning and Budgeting to introduce the concept of Strategic Resource Planning and Budgeting, where costs are classified by what drives them. For each cost driver category, a different budgeting technique is used and the total budget is developed. The linkage to strategic priorities is provided...
- Tags: Budgeting, Financial Services
- Webcasts
- Translating Strategy into Action: The Balanced Scorecard
- This white paper describes an integrated management approach that enables complex businesses to effectively harness their capabilities and to achieve their strategic objectives. The combination of a Balanced Scorecard approach to translating strategy into action, along with enterprise-wide connectivity provided by SAP, constitutes a competitive breakthrough for executives intent...
- Tags: SAP AG, SAP Strategic Enterprise Management, Balanced Scorecard, Strategy, Marketing, Marketing Research, Management
- White papers 1999-05-04
- Stop Drowning in Data: A Strategic Sourcing Web Series - Beyond Simply Treading Water: Why Procurement Data Quality Matters
- This webcast describes pressing challenges and best practices in strategic sourcing; five keys to transforming the procurement organization from transactional to strategic; the strategic sourcing continuum and how to determine the organization's spot on it; and steps the organization can take right now to become strategic.
- Tags: Sourcing, SAS Institute, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
- Webcasts
- Information Technology Management: Improvements Needed in Strategic Planning, Performance Measurement, and Investment Management Governmentwide
- The GAO's January 2004 report indicates that the federal government can significantly improve its IT strategic planning, performance measurement, and investment management. Such improvement would better ensure that agencies are being responsible stewards of the billions of dollars for IT with which they have been entrusted, by helping them to...
- Tags: Performance, Information Technology, General Accounting Office, Strategy, Strategic Planning, Management
- White papers 2004-03-03
- Human Resources
- Created by industry veterans, Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Resources combines advanced technology with commonsense business savvy. With HRMS, you can become the strategic leader in your organization while you realize a substantial return on your investment. Being strategic includes proactive HR management. From hiring to succession planning, Human Resources streamlines...
- Tags: Human Resources, Oracle Corp.
- White papers 2005-05-18
- Business Performance Management Success Story - Department of Defence
- The DOD required a service to enable proper strategic planning and control in line with governance and guidance from government. ILCLerumo and SITA have partnered to provide a strategic business advisory service SBAS to achieve these goals. The service focuses on the identification and analysis of high-level client information requirements...
- Tags: Business Performance Management, U.S. Department Of Defense, Government, Vertical Industries, Business Intelligence, Strategic Planning, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Strategy, Management
- Case studies
- Customer Portfolio Management: Taking CRM to the Next Level
- This white paper explores customer portfolio management, a new, strategic approach to deploying CRM that emphasizes customer knowledge, strategic planning, and execution as the cornerstones of a CRM initiative. Customer portfolio management requires companies to make decisions and allocate resources based on customer value - and through a deep understanding...
- Tags: Portfolio Management, CRM, Customer Portfolio Management, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software
- White papers 2004-09-01
- Six Mistakes of the Enterprise's E-commerce Strategies
- E-commerce is a strategic issue in any Chinese enterprises. But at present, they have six mistakes-incomplete understanding of the significance of e-commerce, unknowing of its conditions and requirements, ill-timed entrance, unscientific fixation of strategic targets, ambiguous strategic guiding ideology and false developing priorities and approaches. The effect of e-commerce on...
- Tags: Wuhan University, Enterprise, E-business, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet
- White papers 2001-07-23
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