Enterprise Performance Management

Effective EPM encourages continuous improvement. It is circular process - strategize and plan - defining the “strategy” - monitor and act - define how to “execute” the strategy. Within each step, organizations use enabling processes and technologies to allow the strategy phase to drive the execution phase and the execution phase to inform the strategy phase. Let us help you create the foundation to drive continuous improvement through effective EPM.

Defining a good strategy and managing to it are two different things. Within each step of the EPM continuous improvement cycle, organizations or groups use enabling techniques or technologies to drive the process. These tools, and the processes they support, enable good management by making it easier for executives at all levels to identify, communicate, and monitor key drivers of business value. We can help you align process to tool set to ensure you drive maximum value from you EPM processes.

When EPM is implemented properly organizations are better able to exploit market opportunities as they arise and catch operational problems before they escalate out of control. They become more effective, more competitive, and more interesting places in which to work. Effective EPM improves communication (of strategy), collaboration (between departments and levels of the organisation), control (of plans and operations) and coordination (between business groups and functional units). We will help you build the processes and associated toolsets that will help you identify market opportunities.

The Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting (PBF) cycle is a critical success differentiator for many organisations. However, PBF is a time intensive, iterative process and relies on the efficient interaction of disparate processes, data sets and users across an organisation. Any inefficiencies in such a process can have wide reaching consequences, including missed deadlines and inaccurate data. We will help you create efficient, focused PBF processes that deliver significant business value

For many global organisations it’s a challenge to manage the financial close process, with pressure to improve the consolidation and reporting process, reduce internal control risks and ultimately reduce the cost of compliance. Dynamic organisations require a consolidation system which easily accommodates new acquisitions and disposals, provides flexibility to adapt to changing reporting needs and yet ensures reliable source-to-report data integrity and transparency.