BI and better business decisions

Leo Sadovy
Leo Sadovy|April 11, 2012

Last week marked my four year anniversary with SAS, and I have to admit that prior to joining, the phrase “business intelligence” was not in my vocabulary.  I understood “analytics” just fine, and knew long before my hiring interview that it definitely didn’t mean spreadsheets.  I knew what “performance management” [...]

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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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The future is not what it used to be

Leo Sadovy
Leo Sadovy|February 15, 2012

Although he later qualified much of what he said with the statement, “I really never said everything I said”, Yogi Berra is also well known for his famous phrase, “Prediction is very hard, especially about the future”. In an attempt to make Yogi’s dilemma slightly more manageable, three of my [...]

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Finance in more than two dimensions

Leo Sadovy
Leo Sadovy|February 1, 2012

I have been attending corporate financial management conferences for 20 years or more now, and there has been one consistent theme that has managed to survive the decades intact: how can finance and its FP&A function become more strategic, more focused on value-add decision support, and less transaction/ journal entry oriented, [...]

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Stop reporting variances, start impacting results

Leo Sadovy
Leo Sadovy|September 1, 2011

How do you know when you’ve given a great presentation?  When someone remembers it a year later and writes a blog post about it.  That great presentation in this case was given by Erik DaRosa, Director of Global FP&A for Avon, who spoke at the IE Group’s Financial Forecasting Conference this time last year [...]

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