Corporate Governance White Papers

Extreme Leadership, Inc. provides training, certification, consulting and coaching services based on Steve Farber’s approaches and methodologies.

Get 3 big ideas from Steven M.R. Covey on how to demonstrate and profoundly impact the level of trust in your relationships, your team and your organisation.

Setting the price of goods for sale can be considered either an art or a science. And accurately tracking the cost of the thousands of component parts that go into a piece of complex machinery can be some combination of both.

The seven tips included in this whitepaper are from some of the top EAM minds in IFS North America and IFS AB, and are designed to help ensure that you get the most out of EAM software so that you can get the most out of your assets.

If you want to cut to the chase on the ways to monitor your IT, cloud, and applications, and the pluses and minuses of each approach, then keep reading... If you want to know the key trade-offs of the types of software out there, then keep reading... If you want to find out what kind of monitoring solutions have been proven to work and why, then keep reading...

This paper will help you understand the value of an FCOE and show you how one might work in your organization.

In this paper, we’ll look at how investing in the right contact center solution can help transform your enterprise and enhance your business outlook.

This whitepaper discusses a deeper logic to multi-channel communication - addressing the needs of today’s media-savvy customer with your company’s need for an integrated strategy of core beliefs and a foundation to grow on.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, with over 1,000 branches and 50,000 employees was using spreadsheets to staff its branch network. When they looked to desktop process analytics from Verint they achieved major improvements in productivity and customer experience. Watch this case study to learn more about how desktop process analytics can use big data to help your organization.

Another quarter-end. You know what that means—masses of data to analyze, complex reports to generate, and a looming deadline. This white paper offers valuable tips and tricks to accelerate your company’s reporting and analysis.

This white paper focuses on best practices that will enable companies to transform the planning cycle into an evolutionary process, bringing tangible and intangible returns for the organization and leadership back into the finance department. You can improve business management through the application and adherence of budgeting and planning best practices. Read on to learn the twelve best practices that have been adopted by leading companies.

Learn how leading companies employ Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software to automate financial processes (budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and planning) that spreadsheets complete on a manual basis and reap the rewards of advanced data analysis.

Spreadsheets are error-prone and unable to support the critical nature of important financial processes. Read this free guide to learn how leading companies have broken the spreadsheet habit, adopting packaged applications specifically-designed for budgeting and forecasting.

Built for non-IT professionals, this white paper explains the differences between Business Intelligence (BI) and Corporate Performance Management (CPM), two fast-growing forms of software utilized by leading finance departments today.

Having experienced challenges with spreadsheets and other reporting tools, Porter Airlines Inc. obtained advanced software that would allow them to model complex business problems, including the viability of their air routes, and analyze the health of their growing operations.

Now is the time for the finance organization to step up to the challenges and become a strategic business partner in the deployment of profitability analysis across the enterprise. This requires a fundamental shift—in terms of both vision and execution. Tomorrow’s winners will be the ones that are not content simply to survive this economic onslaught, but work to emerge nimble enough to thrive. Profitability analysis is critical in this context. Read this whitepaper to learn more about profitability analysis and its benefits.

Profitability analysis is important to all companies. But in times of economic uncertainty, it becomes even more critical because organizations need a comprehensive and forwardlooking view of profitability to ensure that they can remain financially viable, whatever the economic circumstances. For companies to be successful, they need automated systems that enable interactive profitability analysis that can be shared across a broad swath of users. They also need robust, advanced analytics, to provide detailed granular metrics for assessing profitability and measuring performance. IBM offers solutions that can meet those needs.

When an unpredictable economy brings sudden shifts in revenues, costs, and profits, Software solutions can give Finance the ability to anticipate and adapt. But Finance needs the help of IT. Specifically, Finance needs the help of inspiring IT Managers who can lay out the roadmap that will take Finance from the automation of discrete processes to the broader task of transforming the business to compete successfully in a challenging global economy.

By identifying and addressing the symptoms of forecasting illness described in this paper, companies can enjoy the benefits of a health forecasting approach, which, along with specific case examples, will be discussed in future white papers within this series.

The current business environment is still characterized by skittishness, tenuous demand and sporadic growth. It’s no surprise then, that 60% of CFOs plan to make major changes to critical finance practices and processes, according to the 2010 IBM Global CFO Study. In fact, 70% of CFOs claim to be taking a more prominent role in enterprise decision making beyond the traditional role of finance. Yet many CFOs admit to significant gaps in their ability to deliver on this expanded agenda, particularly in their ability to measure and monitor business performance. The IBM study found that those companies that invest in capabilities to expand their business insight are better able to anticipate and react to the unpredictable external forces affecting the economy.

Providing a good online shopping experience starts with understanding customer needs and expectations in order to deliver suitable goods and services. Employees expect a similar experience with a Service Catalog. An effective business service catalog captures employee needs and communicates negotiated service offerings and service level agreements. However, hitting service level targets requires more than just listing services. It’s essential to provide an automated self-service portal and open communication.

Work.com (formerly Rypple) is part of the Salesforce.com family. This social performance management system is most commonly used by organizations looking to improve alignment, performance measurement, and employee motivation.

The vision for Celent’s Model Bank research was to try to answer an apparently simple question: “What would it look like for a bank to do everything right with today’s technology?” Of course, the question is not nearly as simple as it appears. The terms “everything” and “right” will mean very different things to different banks depending on their size, the complexity of their operations and product sets, and their technological starting points. While there is no such thing as a “Model Bank”—every bank does some things well, and others not as well when it comes to technology—it is possible to conceive of a “Model Bank” through real world examples of effective usage of technology.

Learn how @Properties achieved major growth in efficiency and sales by cleaning up their email environment.

Disclosure management tools ave transformed the so called ‘Last Mile’ of finance, turning a haphazard, time consuming and error-prone process into a much more streamlined, timely and controlled endeavor.