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Walking the Talk: Implementing Real Activity-Based Budgeting - A Navistar Case Study

Chicago-based Navistar International Corporation (NYSE: NAV) is a leading producer of heavy-and medium-duty trucks and school buses and mid-range diesel engines sold under the International brand. Its goals were to increase shareholder value, provide information to support strategic decision-making, rationalize and motivate changes in corporate behavior, and lift operational excellence...

Tags: Activity Based Budgeting, Navistar International Corp., Better Management.com, Business Structures, Tools & Techniques, Finance, Management

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Sercomtel S.A. Telecomunicacoes Realizes 25% Productivity Gains and Greater Financial Transparency

Sercomtel S.A. Telecomunicacoes wanted to Comply with fiscal and tax regulations, as well as requirements imposed by Brazil's national telecommunications agency, Agencia Nacional de Telecomunicacoes and make company systems compatible with the digital accounting public system, Sistema Publico de Escrituracao Digital, and with activity-based costing. The challenge was to increase...

Tags: Public Sector, Oracle Corp., Financial, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Accounting, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance

Case studies 2009-05-01

Effective Performance Management: Integrate Methods Under One Umbrella

Performance management - when narrowly defined - spans so many individual managerial methods that few people seem to agree on what it is. But define it broadly while ignoring integration of these methods, and it risks becoming little more than a slogan for a disjointed mix of projects. A performance...

Tags: Performance, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-11-01

Performance Management 2.0: Broader or Better? (Part 1 of 2)

Performance Management 2.0 is being referenced by some IT research firms as an advance over Performance Management 1.0. Does PM 2.0 simply mean it is broader and more inclusive than the PM 1.0 traditional view of being simply a CFO-driven initiative of financial reporting, budgeting and dashboard dials? Or is...

Tags: Performance, Performance Management 2.0, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2008-01-30

Using Google to replace Sharepoint, LimitNone's gShare bridges MS-Office/Google Apps divide

Using Google to replace Sharepoint, LimitNone's gShare bridges MS-Office/Google Apps divideSociety for the improvement of metaphors...... provides the following for your reconsideration:"... gShare appears to allow users to dip a toe in both worlds, have their cake, and eat it too."COOFrom the Comment:"To get a copy of this datasheet —...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, gShare, Google Inc., Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint

Discussion threads 2007-05-03

How Much Do You Really Need: Using Activity-Based Planning & Budgeting for Effective Resource Allocation

For many public sector organizations, implementing Activity-Based Planning and Budgeting will make a bigger impact or organizational efficiency and effectiveness than Activity-Based Costing. It can be a powerful tool for right-sizing organizations and functions within organizations. ABP/B facilitates resource planning and allocation decisions, enables managers to manage capacity and provides...

Tags: Public Sector, Allocation, Better Management.com, ABP/B

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Improving the Budgeting Process With Strategic Resource Planning and Budgeting

This seminar discusses beyond Activity-Based Planning and Budgeting to introduce the concept of Strategic Resource Planning and Budgeting, where costs are classified by what drives them. For each cost driver category, a different budgeting technique is used and the total budget is developed. The linkage to strategic priorities is provided...

Tags: Budgeting, Better Management.com, Financial Services

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Beyond Budgeting and the Balanced Scorecard

The future of Budgeting is a topic receiving significant attention. Many believe it to be a process that has outlived its usefulness. Addressing this budgeting issue cannot be done in isolation. It is inextricably linked to the future of other tools, such as the Balanced Scorecard BSC and Activity-Based Costing....

Tags: Budgeting, Better Management.com, Balanced Scorecard, Financial Services, Marketing, Marketing Research

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Industries Chimiques du Senegal Streamlines Operations With Integrated Processes

Originally founded to meet India's demand for phosphoric acid to produce fertilizer with high-quality phosphate mined in Senegal, Industries Chimiques du Senegal has grown to become the largest industrial complex in the nation. The company wanted to replace disparate financial, procurement, and payroll systems and integrate different processes across the...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Operational Accounting, Payroll Solutions, Pricing, Enterprise Software, Finance, Marketing, Software

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