Planning in the Future: Budgeting, Forecasting, and Modeling
This article will explore and discuss what planning should and will look like in the future, zooming in on what you need to know about finding the right solution for your organization. Last week, I wrote generally about Corporate Performance Management (CPM) in the future. This week, let’s focus on planning or budgeting, forecasting, and modeling in streamlined, modern, collaborative ways that mirror the times – through technological solutions. In the coming years, CPM platfo
Corporate Performance Management in the Future: How to Upgrade Reporting, Budgeting, Dashboards, and
The purpose of this blog entry is to help you shape a vision for the optimal decision-making platform that your company should plan for today to be ready for the future. Sure, corporate performance management (CPM) vendors will keep innovating and delivering powerful features that may not even have been requested by their customers yet, but most likely, your company has a lot of homework to do while vendors work on delivering the CPM portals and tools of tomorrow that will op
Top 5 Reporting Problems Faced by a CEO and Their Technology Solutions, Part 3
This article concludes the discussion of the top five problems facing CEOs today in regard to corporate performance management, with a focus on reporting. In interviewing a very successful CEO and founder of a large company, he expressed the corporate performance management (CPM) issues he faced, and all of them are echoed by hundreds of other executives I have spoken with in recent years. He then explained his vision of the “ideal” solution to his issues. In summary, these w
