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Driving Business Performance with Analytics
Have you investigated ways to improve your company’s operational performance on more than one occasion, but been challenged with having the right…
CFOs: Taking Charge with Analytics
So much has been written about the promise of business analytics to analyze data for competitive advantage. But, who should own analytics?…
Are Customers Getting Ready to Stray From the Fold?
6 Ways That Manufacturers Can Exploit Business Metrics To Maintain Customer Satisfaction What a sinking feeling when you find out that your…
Dashboard Design: 5 Pitfalls to Avoid
As the benefits of performance measurement become more broadly known, analysts are seeing a tremendous uptick in the number of organizations that…
Creating and Executing an Inventory Plan
Inventory is one of the largest assets on the balance sheet of most manufacturing and distribution companies ― understandably making it a…
Setting Sail With Sales & Operations Planning – Part 1
A number of business challenges are driving more and more companies to formally embrace Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). While the benefits…
Determining the ROI of Forecasting Systems
Estimating the Return-On-Investment (ROI) for a new demand forecasting system can be difficult and requires an appreciation of the downstream impacts of more…
Good Data Visualization Makes for Better Business Decisions
In a recent study of more than 400 IT organizations using Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions, 26% of large companies have implemented…
Dashboards: Linking key metrics across the enterprise
How dashboards can help you gain greater visibility into corporate performance Never before has there been more data available to senior executives…
Supply Chain Metrics: Just How Important Are They?
The value of Supply Chain metrics depends on your Supply Chain objectives and how they support your business strategy….