I don’t normally promote other peoples’ blogs and instead comment on their posts or add them to my blogroll. However, I stumbled upon the Riskfriends Weblog which is dedicated “for risk professionals or people who just like risks”. Despite a little sleuthing, I haven’t been able to find out anything about the author other than…
Archive | August, 2008
Strategy vs. Planning
By Jonathan Becher on August 17, 2008 in alignment, key performance indicators, performance management, planning, profitability, strategy, strategy management
For several years, I’ve argued that performance management is more than just budgeting. I’ve also pointed out that the term planning was often misused by software vendors whose products were mostly limited to financial planning (aka budgeting), rather than end-to-end resource allocation and management. And finally, I’ve advocated outcome-based budgeting, rather than activity-based budgeting, so…
Analysts on Strategy Management
By Jonathan Becher on August 4, 2008 in alignment, balanced scorecard, cascade, dashboard, key performance indicators, Leadership, metrics, performance management, strategy, strategy management, vendors
Readers of this blog will know I have a deep affinity for a portion of Performance Management that has come to be known as Strategy Management. The most obvious explanation for my passion is the fact I ran a company often cited as pushing the envelope in strategy management. However, I’ve also always felt the…