Over at the EyeOnBI blog Mike Leano summarizes a recent Gartner presentation on the cost of "dirty data" - data that is inaccurate, incomplete, or duplicated. Gartner estimates that more than 25% of the data within Fortune 1000 companies is flawed, and will...
According to the WSJ, interim CEO Robert Fisher at the Gap, Inc. is counting on faster decision making and less bureaucracy to turn around the struggling clothing retailer. Fisher hopes to combat high turnover in critical leadership roles by attracting and...
A recent article in CFO.com explores the benefits -- and challenges -- of implementing Business Intelligence (BI) capability company wide. Traditionally BI tools were deployed within silos and limited to tactical usage. Now BI is getting more strategic. Features of...
Lauralee Martin, CFO of Jones Lang LaSalle spoke at CFO Magazine's Corporate Performance Management conference in Chicago today. She shared how her company has developed a compensation program that drives performance across a wide spectrum of real estate and...
Jim Flaws, CFO of Corning spoke at CFO Magazine's Corporate Performance Management conference today. He presented lessons learned as his company rode the wild wave of telecom enthusiasm and bust. In 1996 Corning spun off its healthcare and consumer products...
Tom Davenport, author of the article Competing on Analystics that I wrote about in a previous post, spoke this morning at CFO Magazine's CPM conference. He observed that the planets are aligned for business analytics: companies are growing again and emphasizing...
David Blackwell, Wal-Mart's VP for Global Procurement spoke today at CFO Magazine's CPM Conference. I was very impressed. I admit, I've been a critic of Wal-Mart for some time (labor practices, strong-arming suppliers, etc.) but this was a real...
I'm in Chicago for CFO Magazine's Corporate Performance Management conference. This is the first of a series of posts summarizing key observations and findings from the conference. CPM Defined Whether you call it CPM, BPM (business performance management) or...
