Over the past few months, I have talked about what a CPM system is and how to implement and what to measure. This month I thought I might talk about little bit about why CPM projects fail. I know this is something of a negative topic, but it is always worth considering failures in order to help us make...

In my last two posts ( CPM: What to Measure and Implementing CPM ), I tried to define what I see as the broad components of Corporate Performance Management (CPM) and some thoughts on what to measure. It wouldn't hurt to go back and briefly review those posts before continuing on. I thought for this...

In my last column, I provided a brief outline of what I see as the basic goals of Corporate Performance Management (CPM) and briefly discussed the pre-requisites for successful CPM. To summarize, there is a virtuous cycle where strategy leads to execution and then reporting and measurement tell you how...

Winston Churchill once said that, "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." I think this is a great lead in to a discussion of Corporate Performance Management (CPM). I once taught a class at Seattle University called Management Control Systems. I know this sounds...

Corporate Performance Management (CPM) is a broad area of finance that is starting to receive a lot of attention in the press, board room and the mindset of the finance community. Much of what has been written so far has been from an academic and/or theoretical perspective rather than from an implementer...