The extraordinary is now the ordinary. But you already knew that. You didn't need an economic tsunami to tell you:
- We need to stop running real-time business in batch mode.
- We need to plan and account the way we actually run the business.
- Volatility is now central and not just an afterthought to the already approved business plan.
How did your 2008 plan work out? How effective was it at predicting results, allocating resources, prioritizing resources? What about your 2009 plan? Is it obsolete already, or are you concerned that it will obsolete by March?
Join industry experts as they share a better approach to planning and managing your business when risk and volatility, rather than steady-state growth, are the key drivers to profitability and success. Learn how financial processes can be aligned better with the key business drivers and how they can provide the required flexibility when volatility is the watchword. See that the enabling technology is available today to bring about incremental benefits immediately.
Learning Objectives
This Webcast will place front-and-center for you the concepts of:
- Scenario and Event-Based Planning that assumes and incorporates risk and volatility.
- Alternative approaches to the quarterly forecast and the annual budget that trade detail for frequency and scenarios matched to real-time events and visibility.
- Plans and processes that focus on your customers, on innovation, on your products and markets, instead of on salaries, travel and depreciation.
- Pay for performance that matters versus pay against plans not connected to the market.
Attend this informative Webcast to gain the unique perspectives of our expert panel of thought leaders as they shed light on this timely subject.
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About David Axson, Sonax Group; Leo Sadovy, SAS; Mary Driscoll, Dover Business Research and Consulting
David Axson, Founder and President, Sonax Group
David Axson is the founder and President of The Sonax Group, a business research and consulting firm based in Bath, OH. He is a noted speaker and author. His second book, Best Practices in Planning and Performance Management, was published by John Wiley in January 2007.
Axson was a co-founder of The Hackett Group and was responsible for developing a number of the firm’s market-leading benchmarks. He also served as Head of Corporate Planning at Bank of America where he was charged with a fundamental redesign of the company’s planning and forecasting processes.
Prior to moving to the United States in 1991, Axson was affiliated with A.T. Kearney, Deloitte, Haskins & Sells, and Lloyds Bank in London.
Leo Sadovy, Product Marketing Manager for Financial Management, SAS
Leo Sadovy handles the product marketing duties for financial and performance management at SAS.
Prior to joining SAS he spent seven years as Vice President of Finance for Business Operations for a North American division of Fujitsu, managing a team focused on commercial operations, customer and alliance partnerships, strategic planning, process management, and continuous improvement, and developed and implemented the ROI model and processes used in all internal investment decisions. During his 13-year tenure at Fujitsu he also held senior management positions in finance and marketing.
Prior to Fujitsu, Sadovy was with Digital Equipment Corporation for eight years in both sales and financial management roles. He started his career in laser optics fabrication for Spectra-Physics and later moved into a finance position at the General Dynamics F-16 fighter plant in Fort Worth, TX.
Mary Driscoll, President, Dover Business Research and Consulting & APQC Senior Research Fellow
Mary Driscoll is an author, editor, and lecturer with expertise in corporate finance and business management. She serves as Senior Research Fellow at APQC where she leads the new financial-management best practices research initiative.
Mary is also the President of Dover Business Research and Consulting Group, an independent source of thought-leadership content for business advisory firms and technology solution providers.
Previously, she was President of CFO Research, the research services arm of CFO magazine. She spent seven years as a Senior Editor at CFO, developing features on topics ranging from finance transformation and capital markets to financial management information systems and leadership development. CFO magazine is a division of the Economist Group, based in London.
Mary has written several business books, including the professional reference guide, Cash Management: Corporate Strategies for Profit (John Wiley & Sons). She has won journalism awards involving corporate finance, treasury operations, and personal financial planning topics. She currently serves on the Advisory Boards of three technology start-ups.
