If you are looking to significantly upgrade your management practices to better meet the needs of today’s increasingly volatile, complex, competitive, and global markets, look no further. Best Practices in Planning and Performance Management Reporting, Second Edition provides you with an accessible framework to help any business unite its reporting and budgeting functions to achieve its strategic objectives.

Best Practices in Planning and Performance Management: From Data to Decisions

Business & Money

Axson, David A. J.

Management & Leadership

wiley

Praise for Best Practices in Planning and Performance Management 
"Having worked closely with David Axson, I have seen his strategic brilliance firsthand. The integrated approach he takes in practice synthesizes external dynamics, business process, planning, systems, and management for effective execution. Best Practices in Planning and Performance Management, Second Edition brings his keen insight to life, presenting a comprehensive approach to managing business dynamics in comprehensible language. This should be required reading for anyone engaged in the management of a complex business." —Greg Horn CEO, Garden of Life; former CEO, General Nutrition Centers "Best Practices in Planning and Performance Management, Second Edition is an insightful guide for any organization seeking to transform its management processes. David Axson provides practical and thought-provoking perspectives on the practices needed to effectively manage performance in today's competitive and volatile markets." —Michael Geltzeiler CFO, Reader's Digest David Axson is an advisor to the Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management. He provides guidance to the Innovation Center's management team and customer members, authors' articles on performance management best practices, and is a featured speaker at Cognos events. The Cognos Innovation Center was established in June 2004 to advance the understanding of proven performance management best practices and enabling technologies. Staffed globally by experts in planning, business intelligence, management processes, and technology, the Innovation Center partners with more than 2,000 Cognos customers, academics, partners, industry leaders, and others who want to accelerate adoption, reduce risk, and maximize the impact of technology-enabled performance management practices. Depending on their area of interest, members focus on advancing performance management practices or business intelligence competency, gaining insights from experts and peers who have experienced similar challenges and paths to success. Visit: www.cognos.com/innovationcenter/. About Cognos Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, provides world-class enterprise planning, BI software, and services to help companies plan, understand, and manage financial and operational performance. Cognos serves more than 23,000 customers in more than 135 countries, and its top 100 enterprise customers consistently outperform market indexes. For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at www.cognos.com.

Accounting

Become a better manager by challenging the myths of commonlyaccepted management wisdom
A humorous review of current management practice with a veryserious message, The Management Mythbuster makes anentertaining case for questioning much of the conventional wisdomthat pervades the corporate world today.
Through contrarian and provocative points of view, real worldexamples and deep analysis, author and management thought leaderDavid Axson offers over a dozen short, pithy commentaries on theimportant issues in management today:
<ul>
<li>Short chapters on popular management practices, theories, toolsand behaviors</li>
<li>A humorous review of current management practice, with anunderlying serious message</li>
<li>The fallacies of conventional management wisdom revealed andrefuted</li>
<li>Exposes the fallacies of standard management thinking</li>
</ul>
If you are brave enough, this concise, easily read book is foryou, returning a sense of common-sense perspective to the practiceof management.

The Management Mythbuster

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

A practical framework for effectively managing performance in today's complex, competitive and risky global markets The Third Edition provides a complete framework for building best practice management processes for today's complex and uncertain world. Fully updated to reflect the events of the global economic crisis, this book provides further practical examples of companies that are successfully using the practices identified. <ul>
<li>Updated for the implications of the global economic crisis on management practices</li> <li>Completely rewritten section on "What it Takes To Be An Effective Manager In An Uncertain World</li> <li>Added examples and mini case studies throughout the book from companies such as Qualcomm, IBM, Dominos, Target, Toshiba and Facebook</li> <li>Establishes new benchmarks for performance management process and practice</li> <li>Fully updated to include recent events, new learnings, technologies and emerging best practices</li> </ul>
This book includes serious rethinking of the way companies plan and manage performance-from the role of accounting to the skills needed to be an effective manager-including new technologies, techniques and real time management processes.

Best Practices in Planning and Performance Management: Radically Rethinking Management for a Volatile World

David Axson was in turns stunned, bewildered, amused, impresed and thrilled by what he found when he first arrived in the U.S., from Disneyland and the Grand Canyon, to Death Valley and the Spruce Goose aircraft. The author's refreshing insights, mordant criticisms, and just plain awestuck wonder at what he and his family encounter--rock shows, grizzley bears, deer-and-Harley tangles--vividley illuminae the book. Axson's impressions serve to hold the mirror of reality to the reader's face. He liked it, though, and decided to stay. The how and why of his decision, made with eyes wide open, are food for thought for each of us.

Half the World Away

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Countinghouse Pr Inc

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Best Practices in Planning and Performance Management: From Data to Decisions

Best Practices in Planning and Performance Management: From Data to Decisions

The Management Mythbuster

Best Practices in Planning and Performance Management: Radically Rethinking Management for a Volatile World

Half the World Away