TOWARDS PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE
There is absolutely nothing new about the quest for performance improvement. But today we are in the midst of a sea change in how we seek answers. Each of us has more data at our fingertips than any unaided human being can possibly manage, let alone grasp. The challenge is to turn data into information.
Over the last 16 years, Business Objects has been leading the performance management revolution - creating solutions that enable companies to tame information chaos, turn information into insight, and use insight to drive change. Change that goes beyond software, enlightening users in ways never imagined.
When we talk about the benefits of our solutions, our expectations are far grander than a bump in revenue or profits. We aim to help our customers change the very nature of their enterprises, to use our solutions to transform the way they look at - and deal with-the world.
However you define the goals of your organization - whether it's about profit, or saving lives - it's all about the quest for performance. Today, 9 out of 10 companies fail to execute their strategies¹. That's a sobering statistic - and an opportunity for us all. It's an opportunity for your organization to become the 1 in 10 in your industry that succeeds, and it's an opportunity for us to help you in your quest.
Today's Insight keynote presentations from John Schwarz, Bernard Liautaud, and Mark Doll are about Performance Excellence: a systematic, synchronized approach to improving performance through operational excellence and strategic change.
Operational Excellence
We aim to make every person, every process, every decision more intelligent, by providing trusted data at the right time in the right format-and we make that information actionable, so that front-line decisions can be automated using best practice. We help business users optimize their business processes, helping them analyze what is going on, share the results of their analysis with the rest of the organization, and track the progress of incremental improvements.
Strategic Change
Improving performance requires you to take a step back on a regular basis and assess your overall strategy: are you producing the right products, for the right customers, in the right way? Strategic change is key to profound, enduring success. Most organizations have procedures for optimizing single processes, but few have a process for improving the organization as a whole. We help the CEO and CFO align the high level strategy of the organization with execution, through an integrated set of strategic financial planning processes.
CEOs, CFOs, and CIOs all agree - the problems of operational excellence and strategic change are at the top of their priorities. And these two disciplines must be synchronized, so that the operational information is exactly the same as the strategic information, but in more detail, and delivered in real-time.
Today's CIOs are becoming more and more strategic, supporting not just operational systems, but also the best-practice use of information across the organization as a whole to improve performance, covering the needs of IT, finance, and the business. Today's exciting product announcements underline Business Objects' commitment to the broadest, most open, most integrated, full-spectrum solutions. We bring all these things together to provide the world's first systematic approach to performance excellence that provides a framework for synchronized operational excellence and strategic change.
The bottom line: information is the last great underused asset in you organization. By putting intelligent information in the hands of decision makers everywhere, you can transform the way the world works.
¹Source: The Balanced Scorecard Dr. Bob Kaplan and Dr. David Norton
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- October 18 - Concrete Steps to Performance Intelligence
- October 17 - The Power of Collective Intelligence
- October 16 - Crystal Reports 2008
- October 16 - Today's Top Stories
- October 16 - Towards Performance Excellence
- October 15 - Integrating BI 2.0
- October 12 - Countdown to the Insight User Conference
- October 12 - Business Objects Goes Green at Insight 2007
For more Insight conference details, visit Business Objects Americas 07 User Conference event site.
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 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS John Schwarz is chief executive officer of Business Objects. Since joining the company in September of 2005, Schwarz has overseen seven successful acquisitions, including Cartesis and Firstlogic, and driven revenue growth to over 1.2 billion in revenue. |
 TIMO ELLIOTT Timo Elliott joined Business Objects in 1991 as employee #8. He plays a key part in Business Objects strategy and positioning and is a passionate advocate of the power of BI. Read Timo's Blog |