Conferences & Meetings

CPM Case Study: Corning

CPM Case Study: Corning

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...

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Competing on Analytics Redux

Competing on Analytics Redux

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...

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Wal-Mart & Sustainability

Wal-Mart & Sustainability

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...

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Forte Speaks! AFP (Las Vegas)

Forte Speaks! AFP (Las Vegas)

AFP Annual Conference Las Vegas, NV October 15-18, 2006 Hosted by the Association for Financial Professionals More info: AFPOnline.org Case Study: Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Leverages Its Demand Chain Many manufacturers suffer from a lack of detailed customer sales...

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Forte Speaks! Los Angeles

Forte Speaks! Los Angeles

EXPO LA Symposium Los Angeles, CA May 10-11, 2006 Hosted by Southern California AFP More info : www.scafp.net Driving Process Improvement Within Your Finance Organization — and Beyond! Finance executives are increasingly asked to lead process improvement initiatives...

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Forte Speaks! Los Angeles

Forte Speaks! Los Angeles

Driving Process Improvement Within Your Finance Organization — and Beyond! January 13, 2006 Los Angeles, California Hosted by the Southern California Association for Financial Professionals More info: www.scafp.net Finance executives are increasingly asked to lead...

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