Welcome to the Innovation Center for Performance Management

NEW! Making the Business Case for Performance Management
Forget promises of faster, better, cheaper. Your CFO has heard them all before. What your business needs is a complete reframing of the return on investment question.

NEW! Building Business Performance Management Centers of Excellence: Business Intelligence and Beyond
As the line between business intelligence and performance management continues to blur, the role of the center of excellence must expand from technical to business expertise. It must translate business initiatives into an application environment and analysis platform that support business performance optimization.

NEW! Palladium-IBM Cognos Integrated Brand Management Performance Blueprint
This pharmaceuticals and life sciences Blueprint allows users to understand how they are performing, drill-down into the details of activities, identify problems, and take both financial and operational action.

View: Business Value Guide  |  Web Demo NEW! Performance Management - 2012
In this article, David Axson offers a number of guidelines: Your processes should follow the rhythm of your business. Your information must be relevant. You need to be aware of risk. Your systems need to integrate. Incentives should reward performance. Follow these guidelines and, at the end of the day, David argues, there’ll only be one excuse for poor decision-making: management stupidity.

Performance Management in the Innovation Age: An Introduction
In this article, Jeremy Hope argues that the key to real performance management is innovation. Success in highly competitive, rapidly changing markets demands new ways of thinking, shared responsibility, easy access to information, and rapid response to threats and opportunities. The ponderous top-down, command-and-control management style is outdated, stifles innovation, and practically guarantees suboptimal financial and operational results. This is the first in a new series of papers written for the Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management by Jeremy Hope, Research Director of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table. Jeremy is an advisor to the Innovation Center. He is also a tireless champion for innovation in performance management theory and practice, believing that business-as-usual is NOT a route to success.