GaryCokins

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Wedding Bells: Risk Management and Performance Management

Inevitably all managerial methodologies, like customer relationship management and profit management and…

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A Poorly Managed Company’s Tour Guide: Performance Mangement and the ‘Mesdup’ Corporation

  Publicly traded companies issue annual reports that increasingly look like magazines.…

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Miles Davis’ Music Lesson for Performance Management

Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington were jazz greats. And then…

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Put Managers Back in the Driver’s Seat

I recently met in Brussels with Jeroen de Flanders, co-founder of the…

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C. K. Prahalad (1941-2010) – Core Competencies and Business Analytics

The recent death of C. K. Prahalad, a proponent of that organizations…

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Dashboards: A Kite with a Broken String?

How do executives expect to realize their strategic objectives if all they…

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The Iceland Volcano Ash – A Great Way to Validate Business Analytics

Like many business travelers my flight home to the USA was delayed…

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Analytics Can Answer: “Why Can’t … ?

  Are you curious as I am about why these questions have…

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Stupid Executives Should Be Fired !

April 1, 2010 A potential risk is lurking for opportunistic organizations losing…

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A Hollywood Celebrity’s Use of Analytics

At a recent CFO.com magazine conference I attended, Accenture’s Jeanne G. Harris,…

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