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David Parmenter’s reading list – Listen to the King of KPIs
David Parmenter Greetings from Shanghai. For the past seven days, I have had the pleasure of working with the thought-leader, book author and consultant David Parmenter. He is also known as the King of KPIs based on his best-selling book Key Performance Indicators (KPI): Developing, Implementing, and Using Winning KPIs. David and I have been […]
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Success with Performance Management – An interview with Mark Lack from Mueller Inc.
The 80 year-old company Mueller Inc is a a leading manufacturer of pre-engineered metal buildings and metal roofing products. Mark Lack is responsible for performance management at Mueller Inc. He delivered a great presentation about their IBM Cognos implementation at the recent IBM Vision 2012 event in Orlando. Following his session we sat down for […]
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Business Analytics news for the week
Business Analytics news This has been an extremely busy but exciting week. It seems like the whole world is full of energy. Here are a few things you might want to be aware of. CFO.com Webinar Forecasting If you are interested in forecasting, make sure to register for the upcoming CFO.com webinar ‘Forecasting in turbulent […]
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A post full of business analytics updates
Here are a few updates, news and noteworthy links for this week. New book about Performance Management Make sure to check out the latest book about Performance Management written by Steve Player and the late Jeremy Hope. It’s called Beyond Performance Management: Why, When, and How to Use 40 Tools and Best Practices for Superior Business […]
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SUCCEED Magazine- An article about Business Analytics
SUCCEED Magazine About six months ago, I had the honor to write a short article for the business magazine SUCCEED which is distributed via Austrian Airlines. Succeed is actually one of the frequent flier magazines that I love reading. There is a ton of valuable business content in there. The purpose of the bilingual post […]
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The Gartner BI Summit 2012 – A great event
Gartner BI Summit 2012 Wow. I cannot believe it. The Gartner BI Summit 2012 is already over. The event raced by like a bullet train at full speed. Time flies when you are having fun. Last Wednesday, I sat down with the conference agenda and developed a nice plan. I had grand visions of collecting […]
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A lesson in simplicity
SIMPLICITY IS THE ULTIMATE SOPHISTICATION? Last year, severe knee pain caused me to completely stop running for two months. The physical therapist I started working with quickly came to a conclusion about my problems. It took him two minutes. Over the course of six sessions he developed an intricate training program that consisted of various […]
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Joining a Cognos user group is key! – An interview with Steve Veilleux
Cognos User Groups are quickly gaining a lot of interest from IBM customers around the globe. These groups provide users with the ability to learn, to connect and to share experiences. A few weeks ago, I had the honor to meet with one of North America’s largest Cognos User Groups – the ‘Groupe d’utilisateurs Cognos […]
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The power of analytics – lessons from a world-class coach
Cycling Power Meter A few months ago, I wrote about my personal use of analytics to improve cycling performance. This post continues to be quite popular. There are indeed a lot of parallels between the use of analytics in sports and in business. So, I thought why not learn a few things from one of […]
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Success with Forecasting – A discussion with Pieter Coens
Please meet Pieter Coens. Pieter is the Director of Finance & Control at Landal GreenParks in the Netherlands. He started his career in public accounting and joined Landal over 16 years ago. Pieter has held various positions in finance at Landal. Landal GreenParks is a leader in bungalow-park management and rental. Landal has over 65 parks […]