Performance Management Webcasts
Watch our archived webcasts:
Automating Budgets for Mid-Market Companies
A Business Finance Webcast
Join Paul Barber, CEO of Prophix Software, for an informative and engaging webcast that delves into the details of preparing annual budgets and the brave new world of corporate performance management (CPM). This webcast will address some major capabilities of CPM software and how they apply to mid-market organizations. You'll learn how companies are achieving quantifiable benefits through integrated budgeting and planning tools that are developed with the mid-market model in mind.
Dynamic Finance: Planning and Executing Successful Process Optimization
A Business Finance Webcast
Recent research has found that a majority of large companies are currently planning or executing financial process improvement programs. CFOs know that legacy financial processes and systems are not adequate to address coming regulatory burdens and business managers' growing needs for strong analytics support from finance. In this webcast, Mary Driscoll, Senior Research Fellow at APCQ, along with Gary Callaghan and Ryan Senter from Protiviti, will examine the critical success factors in finance transformation.
Keys to Accelerating Results
A Business Finance Webcast
Executives today are under pressure to keep pace with rapid global change and demonstrate results faster than ever before. But in a climate of financial and political uncertainty, and permanent volatility, organizations have struggled to implement strategies that achieve successful results. Learn how finance functions have built on traditional services to offer corporate performance management services to accelerate their company's results.
Transforming Finance: Strategic Ways to Make Structural Changes
A Business Finance Webcast
Many companies today struggle to accurately measure the fundamental cost-drivers in their business. In this webcast, Dr. Robin Cooper, a researcher in the design and use of cost management systems, discusses how finance decision-makers can create integrated, knowledge-based systems for making smarter decisions that drive business performance.
Dynamic CPM: Reporting and Analysis
A Business Finance Webcast
It is common practice today for companies to use some form of performance measurement in their operations, yet new research suggests that most scorecards are based on singular, unsophisticated measurements, providing largely flawed data on the state of an organization.
Financial Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting — Combining Technology with Strategy to Improve Accuracy and Decision Making
An Aberdeen Webcast
A sound financial plan is the vehicle which clearly states strategic business objectives in financial terms. A well-prepared budget forms the foundation for decision-making throughout the fiscal year. However it is the forecast which allows the business to adjust future expectations based on recent actual performance. No one discipline leads to success, but rather a combination of all three must be integrated to provide the visibility necessary to align strategy with company performance.
Planning: How Can Finance Create a Future Ready Organization
A Business Finance Webcast
The Great Recession of recent years exposed some of the inherent flaws in management methods today, as financial executives failed to anticipate and deal with the unfolding collapse of financial markets. Join Steve Morlidge, director of Satori Partners and an expert in performance management and managerial cybernetics, as he discusses how organizations can shift from annual budgeting to more flexible models that look less internally and instead focus outward.
Dynamic CPM: Energizing Performance
A Business Finance Webcast
In the wake of the Great Recession, there's a fine line that separates those corporations that are thriving from those that are merely surviving. Find out what finance decision-makers of some of the most successful companies know that enables them to consistently achieve outstanding results.
Financial Consolidations: How You Can Efficiently Combine the New Alphabet Soup Webcast
A Business Finance Webcast
As companies emerge from the recession, they are being faced with a new wave of regulatory changes that present both tremendous challenges and unique opportunities. The goal remains the same: relevant, accurate, auditable, controlled financial information. But many organizations struggle to optimize their financial consolidations, plagued by lack of standardization, manual data submission processes, a continued use of spreadsheets that prevent centralized management and conflicts between financial and management reporting needs. In the first of this six-part series, you will learn some of the best practices in addressing the challenges posed by FC&R, consolidation software trends, effective delivery models, who is best member of a finance team to perform integrated close activities, along with case studies on world-class companies that are achieving robust results through process improvement techniques and improved use of technology.
How Proposed Regulatory Guidelines Will Impact the Way Small and Midsize Companies Report Financial Performance Webcast
A CFO.com Webcast
During this Webcast, we'll reveal which proposed guidelines will have the greatest effect on how you report your company's performance. We'll also outline the types of regulatory changes that small and midsize companies in particular will need to follow most carefully to ensure they minimize risks of noncompliance.
Dynamic Finance: A New Way to Think, Execute & Advance
A Business Finance Webcast
If you are like many finance professionals, you are looking for ways that your finance organization can add greater value to your organization. Yet many find that they already have too many things to complete. The results are finance teams that are exhausted — yet they know that much of what they do is not strategic nor is it necessary for the organization's success. This Dynamic Finance Webcast Series will help you change that.
Building a Unified Reporting Platform: Expedite Your Close and Jumpstart 2011 Planning
A Business Finance Webcast
As finance professionals seek to expedite their company's year-end close, finance executives are once more laboring to meet the requirements of a reporting process that too often holds little value to the year ahead. During this webcast, learn how organizations are adopting best practices and application tools to establish a unified reporting platform—one that integrates the reporting close and planning processes making reporting a starting point rather than an end.
Learn what changes need to be made to other performance management processes to liberate managers from silo-like systems and facilitate a unified platform. Find out what simple strategies are today helping to empower decision making across organizations and the types of tools that are being used to slice and dice data or drill up, drill down, through data systems.
Maximizing the Value of Business Performance Processes
A CFO.com and Forrester Webcast
Many finance leaders recognize that they need to manage key business performance processes—forecasting, budgeting and reporting—simultaneously. Yet aligning these processes can pose a daunting challenge as finance executives rely on a growing variety of sources of information to put together their forecasts and budgets.
During this Webcast, you will learn how to determine priorities, as well as how to reduce the level of complexity that organizations often encounter, when forecasting, budgeting and reporting at the same time.
You will also find out about tools and techniques that can enable your organization to achieve the quickest return on investment in executing essential business performance processes.
Raising Your Forecasting IQ: A Guide to Competitive BPM
A Business Finance Webcast
Today, in the wake of the downturn's surprise bite and in an economy that leaves no hint as to what's around the next turn, finance has been handed an urgent edict to stop spending so much time reporting what's already occurred and to start informing management about what's yet to happen.
Learn how integrated BPM solutions are now transforming forecasting and planning, by empowering companies to achieve their key performance objectives. Hear how competitive BPM best practices and solutions are helping finance organizations to raise their forecasting IQ, allowing finance professionals to view and respond to forecast variances sooner and more effectively.
Learn from detailed case studies how organizations were able to replace the time-consuming processes of traditional forecasting and planning with competitive forecasting & planning.
- Putting an End to Spreadsheet Snags
- How to Respond to Forecast Variances
- Succeeding with Rolling Forecasts
- A Scenario Planning Starter's Guide
- How to preserve accountability, without set targets.
How Best-in-Class Companies Plan in Today's Dynamic World
An Aberdeen Webcast
Budget season is around the corner, and in today's uncertain economic environment, dynamic financial planning can give business leaders the tools to take prompt action and emerge even stronger.
In this webcast, Nasreen Quibria, Senior Analyst at Aberdeen Group shares insights from recent research findings that reveal the combination of strategic actions and technologies of top performing companies to:
- Create a more agile and dynamically responsive budgeting and planning environment
- Improve visibility to the planning process
- Achieve overall budget accuracy and forecast accuracy
- As well as identify actionable strategies for improvement to achieve better performance
A Guide to Dynamic Forecasting Webcast: Building a Portal to Future Performance
A Business Finance Webcast
In today's volatile environment, if you're looking at a budget
that was created two to three months ago, much less nine months ago,
it's useless.
From this Webcast, you will learn how to rethink the design and operation of your forecasting process to make it more dynamic and responsive to your organizational needs.Hear Business Finance editor in chief Jack Sweeney interview budgeting guru Steve Player about the evolutionary path that is now empowering organizations by transforming forecasting and planning. Learn from detailed case studies how organizations were able to replace the time-consuming processes of traditional budgeting with dynamic forecasting & planning.
In addition, this Webcast will show you how best to automate and sustain a dynamic planning process, as well as mitigate risk in transforming your forecasting processes.
The Keys to Innovation: How to Advance Beyond Traditional Budgeting & Forecasting
A Business Finance Webcast
Join Business Finance editor in chief Jack Sweeney as he
reviews exclusive findings from a recent budgeting best practices
survey of more than 200 finance executives. Then hear Steve Player,
program director for the Beyond Budgeting Round Table in North America,
explore approaches you can use to evaluate your company's approach to
budgeting; and identify opportunities to improve the accuracy of your
company's forecasts.
Performance Management in the Mid-Market
An Aberdeen Webcast
Discover the strategies that help Best-in-Class mid-market
companies succeed in Performance Management.
Having benchmarked the performance of more than 644,000 companies in research across the value chain, Aberdeen is uniquely positioned to provide you with the facts that matter - the facts that enable companies to get ahead and drive results. That's why their research is relied on by more than 2.5 million readers in over 40 countries, 90% of the Fortune 1,000, and 93% of the Technology 500.
Manage A Successful Transition to IFRS
A CFO.com Webcast
This Webcast will provide you with a time-line and
illustrations of best practices that enable midsize businesses to chart
a straightforward course from GAAP to IFRS. If you aim to learn how
your company will likely benefit - especially from simplified reporting
requirements - by implementing IFRS, then this is one Webcast you will
not want to miss.
Strategic Financial Consolidation Process - Reduce the Cycle Time
A BPM Partners Webcast
Are you still spending countless hours consolidating your data? Want this time back?
Financial consolidation is one of the most critical processes of an organization. Effectively managing consolidation cycle times and shortening statutory reporting processes without sacrificing vital controls or compliance with laws and regulatory bodies has become of key importance to most organizations.
Come find out how your peers are minimizing the time spent on financial consolidation and what changes they have made that support them in this endeavor. From process re-engineering to the simple addition of automated report distribution, corporate information can be more meaningful and timely. Reduce time spent processing and increase the time spent analyzing!
Getting Results from Sales Performance Management: A How-to Guide for Finance Professionals
An Aberdeen Webcast
In today's ever-changing business environment being responsive
to factors influencing your sales and profitability numbers is
essential to being competitive. However, achieving the alignment and
visibility required to make Sales Performance Management (SPM) payoff
is not always easy.
Learn what steps organizations are taking to maximize the quality of sales insights and improve decision making. Learn how to bring meaningful sales data to light for improved insightful decision making. Measure and monitor the performance of sales representatives, product lines and regions/territories and highlight potential areas of trouble before it occurs.
Strategic Budgeting: Aligning Budgets to Business Performance Planning
A BPM Partners Webcast
Does your organization's budget reflect its strategic goals or
set guidelines for how to achieve those goals? Organizations must be
capable of positioning their financial resources to stay one step ahead
of the ever-increasing business challenges. By gaining knowledge of
strategic budgeting processes and utilizing the latest forecasting
techniques, you can ensure that your organization will not fall behind.
Learn how to integrate the budgetary process with the overarching strategic plan. Learn how to merge your corporate strategy with your budgets!
Frequent Forecasting for Improved Business Performance
A BPM Partners Webcast
You don't have to be a weatherman to forecast the outcome of
your organization. The tools are at your fingertips and with a bit of
data intelligence, preparing forecasts on a regular basis can become
part of your planning routine.
Learn how to use information and data to bring more visibility to current corporate status. Learn best practices for achieving forecast results and allow your organization to put frequent forecasting into concrete practice.