Corporate Performance Management (CPM) is all about making decisions on the operation of both the business model and any associated strategy improvement initiatives. This article gives an overview of the CPM Framework.

In this blog series, the author provides a comprehensive approach to the design, construction, roll-out and maintenance of a modern driver-based planning solution. Here, he focuses on determining the decisions the model is to support and outlines why understanding the factors on which the decisions will be made is crucial.

In this series of blogs, the author will be providing a comprehensive approach to the design, construction, roll-out and maintenance of a modern analytic driver-based model. He also outlines several necessary requirements for building this model successfully.

There are many software products that claim to support CPM, but often they only support some aspects, for example financial planning and reporting. One of the issues is that the term CPM is synonymous with budgeting, forecasting and management reporting which by itself cannot provide a complete solution.

In this blog series, the author looks at the areas FP&A departments must address to add value in this technology-driven age. In this blog, he considers the applications that can be developed using the latest database technologies.

In this series of blogs, I’m looking at several areas that FP&A departments must address to add value to the organisations they serve in this technology-driven age. In this blog, I look at the changing nature of databases.