The nine-foot Aviator

Leo Sadovy
Leo Sadovy|May 9, 2012

Integrated Business Planning.  Ever since I first mentioned this in a blog post late last year (“I wonder what the king is doing tonight”) as THE number one issue being tackled by the best practice organizations, I have been trying to get my head around not just a good, working definition, [...]

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Relationships, relevancy, and changing the subject

Leo Sadovy
Leo Sadovy|February 29, 2012

Ten minutes into the first speaker of last week’s conference, I knew exactly what I was going to write about in this post.  The speaker was Rey del Valle, Senior Vice President of Finance for Live Nation, on the subject of “Growth Opportunities in the Music Business”, and I was [...]

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I wonder what the king is doing tonight

Leo Sadovy
Leo Sadovy|November 15, 2011

Yes, that’s me, as Don Quixote, singing ‘Dulcinea’ from’ Man of La Mancha’ in a Broadway-themed variety show benefit concert (sort of like “Glee” for forty-to-fifty-somethings) raising money for anti-malaria netting in Africa (I did this as a medley along with ‘I, Don Quixote’). The total amount raised was over [...]

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What’s a Budget for?

Leo Sadovy
Leo Sadovy|November 18, 2010

With the exception of the occasional James Bond movie that proves the rule, we don’t as a matter of course combine our modes of transportation into one all-purpose vehicle, and we even tend to park our cars, boats and planes in separate facilities. But when it comes to financial management, [...]

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Want to add Value? There's an App for that!

Leo Sadovy
Leo Sadovy|November 5, 2010

The goal among finance management professionals for as long as I’ve been in the business has been how to move their group’s effort from being primarily transaction oriented towards adding more value in the decision support arena, moving from an 80/20 weighting in favor of transactions to 80/20 in favor [...]

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How Certain is that Number in the Window

Leo Sadovy
Leo Sadovy|July 23, 2010

My introduction to the issue of risk in business decision making came rather abruptly and rudely during what I thought was going to be another routine quarterly business review with the executive committee. My particular agenda item was to present the business case for a “lite” version of one of [...]

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How much, How soon, How certain

Leo Sadovy
Leo Sadovy|July 9, 2010

The best business book I’ve ever read (or at least the best by someone not named “Drucker”) has been “Competing on Value” by Mack Hanan and Peter Karp. Not trendy or full of consultant-speak buzzwords, first published in 1991, it’s simple, direct approach has stood the test of time, even [...]

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