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Enterprise Performance

Measuring Performance to Gain Strategic Business Insights

I am always amazed by some of the answers that I get from managers when I ask them these questions; • Why are you measuring your organization’s performance? • What do you intend to do with the results? Some managers are just measuring performance for the sake of measuring. In such organizations, performance measurement has read more

Enterprise Performance

4 Barriers Finance Must Overcome To Become Trusted Advisor

This post is based on an excerpt from the book The Performance Manager: Proven Strategies for Turning Information into Higher Business Performance. Various studies have been carried out on the role of the Finance department in creating organizational value with the aim of establishing whether Finance should now be considered a Business Partner. For example read more

Risk Management

Driving Business Performance with ERM

Enterprise risk management (ERM) has become very important. The recent global financial crisis has highlighted the importance of aligning performance management and risk management in protecting and creating shareholder value. If we look at a handful of business failures in the current financial crisis and the recent case of Kweku Adoboli, the UBS rogue trader read more

Peter Chisambara