When I attend a conference as a participant, one constructive practice I have acquired is to, immediately after completing the post-conference evaluation form, create my own personal “take away” worksheet. Nothing complicated, just two columns which can be labeled left/right, debit/credit, sooner/later, or plain/peanut. Don’t attempt to create this worksheet
Day one of the 2010 CFO Corporate Performance Management Conference in New York is in the books, and while the day’s presentations and discussions should rightly merit being the prime subjects of this post, those events have been overshadowed by one of even greater magnitude: dinner with Thornton May. Where
~ Contributed by I-kong Fu ~ AnalyticsCamp is an unconference started by Nathan Gilliatt after a group of us met at a networking meeting in Raleigh last year called Web Analytics Wednesday. The first AnalyticsCamp will take place at UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School in Chapel Hill on Saturday, February 6th,
“The ability to predict future business trends with reasonable accuracy will be one of the crucial competitive advantages of this new decade," SAS CEO Jim Goodnight told students, faculty and business partners at a Jan. 15 Villanova University School of Business event. “And you won’t be able to do that
This past Wednesday was my son’s 20th birthday. His first two decades of life have been remarkably different than mine were. I grew-up analog, he grew-up digital. To appreciate and understand my son and his friends, I relied on the baby boomer’s essential field guides for understanding the Net Generation;
I’ve been reading Mastering Organizational Knowledge Flow: How to Make Knowledge Sharing Work by Frank Leistner, Chief Knowledge Officer for SAS Global Professional Services. It was written for Cheif Knowledge Officers and knowledge managers, but I also found some interesting truths for any area of an organization that is trying
Everywhere you turn, fraud is in the headlines. It doesn’t matter if you get your news online, on the TV or from the newspaper. There seems to be a new fraud story every day of another scheme. Are the current economic conditions pushing people over the edge? Is greed to
Last year for Christmas, I wrote you a song. This year, I come bearing the gift…of knowledge! It’s the gift that gives the whole year round, Clark. Here at SAS, most of my colleagues know I moonlight as a pub trivia host. I put these questions together to give our
On Friday, environmental negotiation between 193 heads of state concluded in Copenhagen. Some argue that little was
Performance Management expert (and SAS product marketing manager) Gary Cokins blogs regularly here at SAS on the latest developments in enterprise performance management. We always look forward to his insights and interesting take. Just back from the Palladium (formerly Balanced Scorecard Initiative) 2009 Americas Summit, Gary noticed three major shifts
