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Planning for the Enterprise—Leveraging Best Practices to Elevate Performance and Ensure Future Compliance (3rd of 4-pt series)

Sponsored by Cognos

Date:Thu, Jul 21, 2005
Time: 2:00 P.M. ET
Duration:1 hour
Cost: Online FREE

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Summary

Third in a Four-Part Webcast Series

Enterprise planning is critical to high performance. Planning provides a high-level picture of the business, an understanding of operational performance drivers, a sense for the impact of operational plans on financial results, and visibility into opportunities and risks. Enterprise planning helps financial executives shed light on one of their most critical blind spots—likely future performance.

Increasingly rigorous compliance mandates are leading companies to enhance their planning, budgeting, and forecasting capabilities to avoid surprises and reduce financial and operational risk. At the same time, they enjoy the benefits of increased performance and emerging opportunities to increase revenue, decrease operating expenses, and better manage working capital.

This third web seminar in our four-part series will explore how enterprise planning can support maximum performance and help meet stringent compliance requirements.

Tony Levy, Director of Product Marketing at Cognos, will explain how you can build a simple, integrated, reliable, and dynamic planning process in even the most volatile of business environments.

You will learn how to:

  • Align corporate objectives with individual operating plans across the enterprise.
  • Link plans to market events and operational drivers.
  • Coordinate financial and operational plans.
  • Shorten planning cycles, increase likelihood of success, and accelerate time-to-value.
  • Deliver predictable and visible "best-in-class" performance.
  • Quickly respond to market pressures.
  • Improve risk management.

    Compliance and Performance—Because Neither is Optional

    A four-part webcast series

    The pressure is intense: You have to align people, strategy, and financial resources to drive financial and operational performance. And you have to deliver under the “compliance microscope” to ensure that business controls both monitor and provide insight into a myriad of transaction detail. How do you do that?

    In this series of four one-hour webcasts, industry experts will demonstrate how best-in-class organizations face the two-headed compliance-performance challenge.

    Learn how to:

  • Automate and structure recurring management processes like consolidation and planning to establish accountability and ensure integrity.
  • Enable information transparency with business intelligence to communicate a common decision-support framework across the organization.
  • Institutionalize performance management to deliver better information through sustained compliance.