Finance Champions

Assessment: The Value Impact Profile for Planning
This new self-assessment tool will help Champions like you determine the gaps and barriers in your planning processes such as managing revenue, expenses or capital expenditures. The tool guides you in defining your goals and objectives and viewing the possible metrics and benefits derived from particular capabilities.

Assessment: The Value Impact Profile for Financial Analytics
Use this assessment tool to determine the gaps in your financial analytics processes, such as profitability analysis, scenario modeling and profitability related to revenues or expenses, that block optimized performance. Understand the potential benefits and measurable business values as well as assess capabilities needed to deepen your analytics.

Assessment: The Current State Self-Assessment Tool
The Current State Analysis Tool guides you and your organization through questions about the current state of your financial planning processes (for example, annual budget or forecasting) and the role of your current technology solution in supporting those processes. This analysis is the groundwork for determining your next steps in improving the business value of your planning solution.

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Report: 2010 IBM Global CFO Study
The 2010 IBM Global CFO Study of more than 1,900 finance leaders worldwide provides the largest window into mindset of CFOs today. Foremost is the increasing demand for their inputs into enterprise strategy, but they are also concerned about mitigating risk, driving information integration and identifying key metrics that link performance to strategy execution. This study explains what it takes to succeed with these priorities and how you can develop those capabilities in your organization.

Third-party white paper: Profitability Analysis and Optimization
Profitability analysis and optimization can have a significant impact on competitiveness and shareholder value. Read this white paper from BPM Partners to learn how activity-based costing combined with multi-dimensional analytical tools can help your company significantly improve profitability.

White paper: Dynamic Planning for Today's Uncertain World
This article discusses transforming planning into a simple, flexible and short process that is relevant to today's dynamic business environment.

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Assessment: Planning and Financial Analysis ROI Model
The Planning and Financial Analysis ROI Model is a spreadsheet-based model you can use to build and analyze financial scenarios to determine the forecasted payback associated with an IBM Business Analytics planning and financial analysis solution. The tool has been developed to help you quickly determine the economic value-add IBM Business Analytics P&FA solutions can provide for your entire enterprise.

Bundle: Financial Analytics Case Studies
Learn how these customers used IBM Cognos financial analytics solutions to improve insight into profitability: IBM, Cellular South and Alfred Angelo.

Presentation: Driving a Smarter Enterprise
The IBM Global 2010 CFO study has revealed that CFOs and their finance organizations must create value by improving standards and analytical effectiveness. They are driving a smarter enterprise with improved analytics and operational efficiency. This presentation describes the new tools and disciplines that can help finance organizations anticipate and shape business outcomes and drive transparency for better decision making.

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Webpage: Cognos Planning Blueprint Demonstration and Evaluation Guides
Visualize or experience robust enterprise planning in areas such as expense management, workforce planning, capital expense management and planning related to particular industries. IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints provide pre-defined data, process, and policy models based on proven best practices.

Webpage: IBM Cognos Profitability Analysis Blueprint Demonstration and Evaluation Guide
View a demonstration and evaluation guide to understand how you can augment your planning/analytics solution with profitability analysis. IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints provide pre-defined data, process, and policy models based on proven best practices.

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Bundle: Success Stories of Expanded Planning and Analysis
Still wondering if you should expand your planning solution? Read about the successes of companies who moved beyond simple financial planning with a host of new values such as reduced inventory, improved return on marketing investment, sales linked more closely to operations, global planning and greater individual accountability.

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Third party white paper: Beyond Information to Insight: The Promise of Management Reporting
David Axson explains how leading companies can assure that their managers can respond to the complexities of today's markets - based on an understanding of six new rules in this white paper.

White paper: How Yes Happens - Insights from Innovation Center members on winning executive support
This white paper records a lively yet practical set of customer suggestions for securing executive support.

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Webpage: Training Paths: IBM Cognos Education
The IBM Cognos Training Course Catalog.

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