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Birth Order May Affect Career Choices: According to a recent survey by CareerBuilder.com, birth order seems to affect people's career choices. [more]
CNN Beams Up Correspondent: CNN used its new 3-D hologram technology to "beam" correspondent Jessica Yellin from Chicago to Wolf Blitzer's studio in New York during election coverage. [more]
73-Year-Old Man Makes Basketball History: Ken Mink, a 73-year-old student at Roane State Community College, set a new record this week -- he became the oldest person to score in a US college basketball game. [more]
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Performance Management Alerts

How to Move Procurement to the Next Level: CFOs and procurement pros alike are looking for ways to boost the function's contribution. [more]
Performance Booster: Total Compensation Management: Compensation processes are key to improving workforce performance, yet most managers who are responsible for these complex practices lack confidence in their organization's ability to handle them effectively. [more]
Driving Operational Innovation Using Lean Six Sigma: Businesses today face mounting pressures to innovate, yet enabling innovation remains a challenge for many. [more]
Create a Telescopic Lens for Your Finance Function: Budget season has arrived at most companies, which means that it's time to integrate operational and financial planning, ratchet up forecast accuracy, fatten your bottom line, and look ever deeper into the future. [more]
Six Sigma for Breakthrough Leadership: The renowned business performance management system can be used to drive defects out of a product line, overhaul a complex business process, or utterly revolutionize an enterprise. [more]
Internal Benchmarking in Four Steps: Internal benchmarking is a handy way to identify best practices while also encouraging healthy competition amongst departments, which can spur innovation. [more]
Marketing Plan Helps Promote BI Initiative: How can you promote your business intelligence (BI) initiative? [more]
A Path Through the Information Maze: Businesses churn out vast volumes of information; the average management report contains 12,000 to 15,000 data points. [more]
Finance in the Flat World: Earlier this year, global consulting and services firm Accenture published the latest in a series of studies of high performance in the finance function, focusing on the challenges and opportunities presented by globalization. [more]
BPM Enters the Age of Carbon Finance: As green projects and sustainability reporting take hold, companies will be looking to their CFOs to ensure that disclosures are accurate and that initiatives benefit the bottom line as well as the state of the planet. [more]
Performance Management in a Nutshell: If you're searching for a basic explanation of performance management, look no further. [more]
Strategy Execution Requires a Management System: Companies need more than a good strategy to be successful. [more]
BI Competency Center Aids Implementation: As the amount of data companies must store continues to grow, managing the information effectively has become more important than ever, according to a new report from IDC. [more]
A Guide to Evaluating Best Practices: Following proven business methodologies can improve a company's performance, but often these so-called best practices fail to live up to their flattering handle. [more]
Weather the Economic Downturn with BI and BPM: In an economic downturn, cutting costs may not be enough to keep you in the black. [more]
Separating Capital From Results Improves Performance: Companies can only effectively manage their performance when they separate the capital they use in their activities from the results those activities produce, according to management consultant Harry Greene. [more]
Search Engines Improve Business Intelligence: The Internet has changed people's perspective on how they should be able to access information, including their expectations for business intelligence (BI) search capabilities. [more]
Your Allies in Tough Economic Times: BI and BPM: As they chart a course through today's choppy economic waters, companies often overlook two of their most powerful navigational instruments -- their business intelligence (BI) and business performance management (BPM) systems. [more]
Enterprise Systems Create Value: Successful implementations of enterprise systems drive corporate financial performance, according to new research from Accenture. [more]
CFOs and CMOs Collaborate on Performance Management: On the traditional corporate organizational chart, chief marketing officers' and chief financial officers' paths seldom cross, but today's market environment necessitates cooperation. [more]