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February 26, 2009, Edition I

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Featured eSmarter Blog: Executive Compensation: Getting Turkeys to Vote for Thanksgiving.

Executive compensation needs to part of a business management governance system so that it leads toward achieving the 3 Rs of business; i.e., everyone doing the Right things and doing them Right at the Right time. Some companies had an executive compensation that was not just unhealthy but destructive for not only their company but society as a whole. Whatever happened to leadership working to[...] Read More

 

Steps for Creating a Performance Management Based Culture
Written by Forrest W. Breyfogle, III

Organizational performance metrics can have direct linkage with culture. An organization can create a business management system culture to facilitate overall and individual performance measurements so the enterprise benefits as a whole benefits; i.e., avoids silo thinking where the enterprise as a whole does not benefit. Read how to create an enterprise framework so that organizational performance metrics and culture are blended with analytics and innovation working together to improve the overall enterprise big picture performance. Read More

 

Recommended Literature on Strategic Planning and/or Portfolio Management?
Written by Forrest W. Breyfogle, III

Question: What conferences or literature would you recommend on strategic planning and/or portfolio management? Since the economic times are constricting our abilities to spend on projects, I am interested in learning more ways to plan, prioritize and allocate resources more creatively. I regularly assist companies with their strategic portfolio management and creative resource solutions. If anyone has suggestions for conferences, associations or literature on this topic, I would be interested in learning more.

Response: To address this question we need to first step back to the big picture.[...] Read More

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When data will not transform, what does it mean?
Written by Rick Haynes

We can teach a student many elegant statistical tools to transform data into a more normally distributed condition. With all of that, there are many cases where it will never work. Here are a couple of common reasons [...] Read More

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