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Archived Webcast Originally Presented
Tuesday, September 9, 2003

The Fast Road to Better Performance at the South Dakota Department of Transportation (video interview)

Presented By:
Dr. Peter B.B. Turney and Roxanne Rice, Cost Technology, Inc. and the South Dakota Department of Transportation


 

Topics covered include

  • Collaborative Performance Management
  • Strategy Mapping
  • Balanced Scorecard
  • Resource Planning
  • Activity-Based Costing
  • Value Creation

Program content
Challenging budgetary conditions have government agencies looking for ways to improve performance. In this presentation, Dr. Peter Turney and Roxanne Rice tell the story of the South Dakota Department of Transportation’s (SDDOT) “high tech, high touch” approach to performance improvement. Turney and Rice describe SDDOT’s unique combination of performance analytics and collaborative methods that have yielded cost savings of 20-30% and other significant performance benefits.

Participant level of understanding
This program is intended for participants with a basic or intermediate level of understanding on the topic.

Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisites for this seminar.

Advance Preparation
There is no advanced preparation required for this seminar.

Who Should Attend?
Executives, Directors, Managers and Analysts who want a better understanding of how the use of business intelligence, data warehousing and analytic applications can contribute to a company's success.

About Dr. Peter B.B. Turney and Roxanne Rice
Peter Turney is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Cost Technology, and also Adjunct Professor at the Darden Graduate School at the University of Virginia. He has published numerous works on management including Common Cents, the world's best-selling book on ABC and ABM, and articles in the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Journal of Cost Management, Management Accounting, Target, Controller, and other journals. Dr. Turney is a frequent presenter to management groups, and has led successful implementations of ABC and ABM in manufacturing and service organizations worldwide.

Roxanne Rice has been the Director of the Division of Fiscal and Public Assistance for the South Dakota Department of Transportation since 1996. After graduating from Kansas State University with a BS in Management, she began her career with the State of South Dakota (SDDOT) in 1989. Starting in the Bureau of Finance and Management as a Budget Analyst, she rose to the position of Chief Budget Analyst prior to joining SDDOT. Ms. Rice is a 1997 graduate of the University of Virginia Transportation Executive Institute and currently serves on the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials Administrative Subcommittee on Transportation Finance and on the Standing Committees on Quality, Public Transportation, and Rail Transportation. She has been instrumental in streamlining the budget and finance systems of the SDDOT through the implementation of automated data entry systems. Ms Rice has also worked to establish methods to facilitate accountability throughout all management levels of the Department.



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Minimum System Requirements
  • No firewall restrictions on streaming media or active-x content.
  • Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
  • Pentium 166 or faster.
  • Windows Media Player (version 6.4.07 or higher).
  • Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 7, Safari 1.3.
  • 128k Internet connection or faster.
  • RAM: 32MB.
  • Video: SVGA 800x600 screen resolution or higher, 65535 colors.
  • Audio card: SoundBlaster audio card (or equivalent).
  • Speakers or headphones.

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