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Published July 16, 2009 @ 11:51 by Mike in Industry News

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm (Source: HBS Working Knowledge)

Specific Knowledge and Divisional Performance Measurement (Source: HBS Working Knowledge)

BEyeNETWORK Spotlight Interview w/ Bally Boodram (Source: BEyeNETWORK)

The Emerging Leaders in Business Performance Management (Source: BEyeNETWORK)

Financial Software Winners and Losers (Source: CFO.com)

Outlines Budgeting and Forecasting, Cost and Profitability, Reporting and Consolidation applications as all winners in helping to bring visibility to your business.

Top 10 Concerns of CFO's (Source: CFO.com)

Outlines the top 10 internal and external concerns for CFOs

New Research on Spreadsheet Usage for Budgeting and Planning in Midsize Organizations (Source: BEyeNETWORK)

Economic Update August 2009 (Source: The McKinsey Quarterly)

Addresses the steps companies will take over the next 12 months and the focus on cautious growth and see trending toward improvement

Economic Update June 2009 (Source: The McKinsey Quarterly)

Where the Crisis Hurts.  2 of the 9 areas impacted most include the ability to strategically plan and the gathering of information.

How Finance Departments are Changing  (Source: CFO.com)

CFOs are spending less time on responsibilities more easily left to others and increased time in areas that are important during a crisis.

Just-in-Time Budgeting for a Volatile Economy  (Source: The McKinsey Quarterly)

A volatile economy makes traditional budgets obsolete before they're even completed. Here's how companies can adapt more quickly.

Strategic Planning: Three Tips for 2009  (Source: The McKinsey Quarterly)

The new reality for 2009 includes doing more with less, dealing with new regulation and oversight, and the importance of perception when business as usual is a thing of the past.

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times (Source: Harvard Business Review)

An economic crisis is a charter for business leaders to rewrite and rethink how they do business.

Managing in the Fog (Source: CFO.com)

A healthy skepticism approach through scenario planning and rolling forecasts is the best way to manage through the fog.

Leading Through Uncertainty (Source: The McKinsey Quarterly)

Companies that nurture flexibility, awareness, and resiliency are more likely to survive the crisis, and even to prosper.

Surviving Economic Downturns with Performance Management (Source: BeyeNETWORK)

Performance Management can have a positive impact on operational efficiencies, cost cutting efforts and individual employee performance.  

Best of 2008: Spreadsheets (Source: CFO.com)

There's little doubt that spreadsheets are the most widely-used financial software application. But they are also the most-abused.

Are Spreadsheets Sabotaging Your Profits (Source: Brown Smith Wallace Consulting Group)

90 percent of businesses rely on spreadsheets for their forecasting software - using commercial software packages for forecasting produced better performance than spreadsheets.

CPM Addresses Information Challenges Technology Evaluation Centers)

Discusses challenges, how they affect the organizations operational effectiveness and what to look for in a CPM solution to help address these challenges.

Business Performance Management Basics (Source: Technology Evaluation Centers)

An Overview of Business Performance Management and Its Benefits to the Organization

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