White Paper Published By: Adaptive Planning
Published Date: Apr 25, 2012
In 2006 the world economy was booming, partly on the back of triple-A investment innovations. Then, suddenly, the boom ended. What fascinates the authors is the fact that almost no one saw the 2008 economic crisis coming. In this article, the authors come to terms with the reality that, in economics and business, accurate forecasts aren't possible. Therefore, they say, managers need to develop a different attitude about the future.
White Paper Published By: Adaptive Planning
Published Date: Apr 25, 2012
Activity-based budgeting has been discussed for some time, but becomes far more practical with a Time Driven Activity-Based-Budgeting (TDABC) model. Using this approach, a company can now link its strategic plan and sales and production forecast to the specific demands for capacity required for implementation. This chapter introduces the powerful new extension of the TDABC model to perform what-if analysis and activity-based budgeting.
White Paper Published By: Adaptive Planning
Published Date: Apr 25, 2012
Bjarte Bogsnes holds the unique distinction of being the only person to have "blown up the budget" at more than one company: at his previous employer, the European plastics manufacturer Borealis, and at his current one, Statoil, the Norwegian oil giant. A dedicated champion of the Beyond Budgeting movement, Bogsnes takes the concept of rolling forecasting-itself a relatively new approach-one big step further, with dynamic forecasting.
White Paper Published By: Adaptive Planning
Published Date: Apr 25, 2012
In describing what forecasters are trying to achieve, Saffo outlines six simple, commonsense rules that smart managers should observe as they embark on a voyage of discovery with professional forecasters: Map a cone of uncertainty, look for the S curve, embrace the things that don't fit, hold strong opinions weakly, look back twice as far as you look forward, and know when not to make a forecast.
White Paper Published By: IBM Software
Published Date: Jan 20, 2012
This whitepaper unveils research that shows how banks are moving beyond organization silos, infrastructure complexities and other constraints -- toward an operation focused on the client.
Download this white paper to understand how these changes create a need for new processes and systems to achieve compliance and drive the need for new and broader skills within financial and real estate personnel.
For many companies in the U.S., Europe and many other countries, the pending changes to real estate and equipment lease accounting will result in a multi-billion dollar impact on the company balance sheet. These changes will create a host of ancillary effects beyond compliance that finance and real estate executives and professionals will need to address. Download this on-demand webcast to learn more.
For many companies, facilities operations and management represent a significant business cost. Thinking of fixed assets as a source of economic advantage allows companies to optimize their processes and resource use to simultaneously reduce environmental impacts and lower cost.
White Paper Published By: IBM - Tririga
Published Date: Dec 21, 2011
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) are jointly working on a replacement for the current lease accounting standards. The paper discusses how to create an action plan to prepare for this replacement.
White Paper Published By: IBM - Tririga
Published Date: Dec 21, 2011
While a business case is all about the numbers, knowing how and when to push the proposal through the approval process requires an understanding of the psychology behind how proposals are selected and funded. Learn the tools and strategies to develop a business case and gain approval.
Read how IBM Maximo provides a single work and asset management platform that enables operations to quickly see recurring issues, automate escalation and communication, and maintain comprehensive asset histories for governance requirements.
This high-level Flash video provides an overview of how the IBM Smarter Planet campaign can help improve facilities management. By using IBM Maximo Asset Management, facilities managers are enabled to create smart buildings that reduce overall energy use and are operationally efficient.
Jack Porco from William Beaumont Hospital and Mike Stephens from Atkins give an overview of their use of IBM Maximo Asset Management for facilities management and how it helped them run their buildings... smarter.
Webinar Published By: Adaptive Planning
Published Date: Dec 15, 2011
Are you getting as much value as you can out of your budgeting, monthly reporting, and what-if scenarios? Are they really creating strategic value? Let us help you.
Webinar Published By: Adaptive Planning
Published Date: Dec 05, 2011
Join us for an informative webinar and learn how easy it can be to create exceptional value through FP&A. You will hear case studies describing how leading retailers worldwide have been able to move beyond Excel and save time, enhance companywide collaboration, and improve business decisions - ultimately resulting in higher revenues and profits. And you'll also see a demo of how Adaptive Planning's award-winning software creates value for retailers.
Webinar Published By: Kofax
Published Date: Oct 20, 2011
At this free, one-hour webcast, moderated by Bank System & Technology Editorial Director Kathy Burger, you will learn how intelligent capture and exchange capabilities can help your organization automate the entire mortgage loan process - linking back-office information processes, front-office knowledge workers, customers and partners to enable financial institutions to exchange information automatically with anyone, anywhere, in any format.
White Paper Published By: Kofax
Published Date: Oct 20, 2011
In this report, we look at the drivers for ECM investment, the adoption of collaborative technologies, use of outsourcing, user priorities, views of the future as regards cloud and open source, and spend intentions for the next 12 months.
Webinar Published By: Adaptive Planning
Published Date: Jul 01, 2011
Learn how you can significantly extend the capabilities of your existing Salesforce.com, NetSuite, or other CRM application with an affordable, easy-to-use, and quick-to-deploy solution that automates sales forecasting, improves pipeline visibility, and enables what-if scenario planning.
This informative guide highlights valid reasons for considering a fixed asset solution and offers advice and useful tips for each stage throughout the evaluation process.
Sarah Cooke 
Don Shoultz 
Marc Rapport 
