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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

Stealing a Page from Private Equity's Playbook: Public companies can find themselves targeted by private equity firms for a number of reasons ranging from misaligned management incentives to suboptimal dividend-payout policy. [more]
Ultimate Guide to the Management Power Tools: For the past fourteen years, strategy consulting firm Bain & Co has been tracking the most popular management tools worldwide, including just about everything from strategic alliances to corporate blogs, and from benchmarking to offshoring. [more]
How To Get Sales and Finance On the Same Page: Sales performance management is a discipline that can deliver a range of benefits including enhanced revenue flows, greater responsiveness to changing market conditions and more accurate reporting. [more]
IT Alignment From the Ground Up: In discussions of the perennial problem of ensuring that IT's goals harmonize with those of the business at large, attention has mostly focused on the higher managerial levels, in particular the CIO/CFO relationship. [more]
5 Steps for Better BI: An estimated 70 percent of business intelligence (BI) projects fail to meet an organization's expectations, but there are ways to avoid becoming part of that majority. [more]
Corporate Outperformance a Lofty Goal: Executives may have unrealistic performance goals for their organizations, according to a McKinsey study that found only 9 out of 1,077 large global companies outperformed their competitors on both revenue growth and profitability over an 11-year period. [more]
Moving Knowledge Up in BI: What do Watergate and the Columbia shuttle disaster have in common? [more]
KPIs Are a Work in Progress: Many companies carefully select key performance indicators (KPIs) when they first implement performance management initiatives but then fail to reevaluate those KPIs as their goals change and projects progress. [more]
Thinking About Offshoring? Concentrate on Performance: A caveat to companies planning to send operations overseas: If you offshore simply to cut costs, you're likely to miss both savings and performance targets -- by a long shot. [more]
Unseen and Soon Everywhere: XBRL: According to Ventana Research, all large public US companies will be using extensible business reporting language (XBRL) within five years. [more]
Boosting BI ROI: It's All About the User: Many a business intelligence (BI) software initiative has foundered on the rocks of user skepticism and dissatisfaction. [more]
BPM's Next Swing at the Office of Finance: After waves of M&A activity where IT-oriented business intelligence (BI) vendors like Business Objects, Infor, Oracle and SAP purchased or integrated companies focused on financial software like Cartesis, Hyperion and OutlookSoft, the door may be opening for the next "financial intelligence" applications to come from new providers. [more]
To Look -- or Not to Look -- Like Excel: Although finance staff are thrilled with business performance management (BPM) software that resembles Excel, managers and the individuals who iron out the budget may not be so spreadsheet-savvy. [more]
Sharing BI and BPM Tools Produces Better Results: Organizations can benefit from allowing employees of all levels access to business intelligence and performance management technology, according to industry experts at May's SAS forum in Stockholm. [more]
Workforce Performance Management Gets the Shaft?: Improving workforce performance management is a low priority for many companies, despite a recent Ventana Research study that finds more than half of organizations simply do not have access to the very metrics for which they are responsible. [more]
Achieving Alignment for the Global Team: Productivity can suffer for a geographically dispersed team separated by time zone and perhaps culture, but consultant Howard Guttman provides exercises to bridge these gaps and build a stronger workforce. [more]
Performance Management Myths Debunked: Given the plethora of information that's available about performance management, it can be difficult to separate fact from fiction. [more]
More Bang for Your BPM Buck: Only around half of companies rate their business performance management (BPM) processes as successful or very successful, say Parson Consulting experts David Ketchin and Mark Doyle in this article. [more]
Room to Improve: Supply Chain BI: Ventana Research has found that Operational Performance Management is negatively impacted by limited BI technology use, according to its study "Supply Chain Business Intelligence -- Adoption, Use and Practice". [more]
Why Not Host Your BPM Software?: Choosing a hosted service provider can free up a company's budget, expedite software deployment, provide the opportunity to use Web-architected and highly customizable software and may also open the door to better forecasting, according to Andrew Jorgensen, senior partner at Pinnacle Group Worldwide. [more]