EPM.TV, the new site with Performance Management content

EPM.TV is a very nice initiative created by the Oracle's EPM experts Frank Buytendijk and Thomas Oestreich, to share and publicize content about Enterprise Performance Management and Management Excellence. According to the welcome message: "the site that will completely change the way you look at managing your business."

They separate the issues by topic: EPM TV, Social Media, EPM index, Resource Centre and Events.

In the topic of EPM TV, you can watch videos with presentations, debates and interviews. In the Resource Centre has whitepapers, journals and customer case studies to download. According the site, the EPM Index is where "the businesses in Europe and North America are assessed on their ability to unite management processes and information systems to form a consolidated view of the business. The research for the EPM Index was conducted by analyst group Quocirca, and asked 800 business decision-makers in Europe and North America to rank their organisations on the processes and accuracy of information governing six distinct areas: the stakeholder environment, market model, business model, business plan, business operations and business results."

You need to make a free registration to access the EPM.TV content.

Journal of Management Excellence #4 is out

Frank Buytendijk commented in his Oracle's blog that the new issue of Journal of Management Excellence is out. The title is Creating Value.

Frank said: "Creating value is the most important objective of every organization, but it is also the hardest to define. Creating shareholder value is perhaps the most tangible way of looking at value creation. We can look at the market capitalization, net present value of expected dividend streams, and the share price. Maybe the fact that it is relatively easy to measure and calculate shareholder value has been an important reason behind the popularity of the concept. But because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean that it is the right measure of success."

There are several interesting texts and commentaries in this issue:
- Connect Enterprise Performance Management Processes to Drive Business Value - Ivo Bauermann, Senior Director, Business Development, EPM
- Commentary: If You Are Ready, Now Is the Time! - John Kopcke, Senior Vice President, EPM
- The Need for Profitability Management - VJ Lal,Director, Product Strategy, EPM
- Commentary: The Complete Value of an Enterprise Performance Management System -Thomas Oestreich, Chief EPM Strategist
- Centraal Boekhuis: Creating Value by Delivering Business Intelligence as a Service - Emiel van Bockel, Manager Information Services, Centraal Boekhuis
- Guest Commentary: The Overinstrumented Enterprise - James Taylor, CEO and Principal Consultant, Decision Management Solutions and co-author of Smart (Enough) Systems
- True Value Index: A Measure for Sustainable Business Success - Frank Buytendijk, Vice President and Fellow, EPM
- Industry Insights - Mark Conway, Director, EPM Alliances and Research

The Journal of Management Excellence is a nice initiative from Oracle, where they are publishing very good materials about Business Intelligence and Performance Management.

Management Excellence

In July of this year, Frank Buytendijk introduced the concept of Management Excellence in his Oracle's blog and launched The Journal of Management Excellence.

He wrote: "Organizations should recognize that the competitive differentiation of operational excellence is diminishing, and that a new competitive wave has started. Organizations should extend their focus on cost, quality and speed, to including being smart, agile and aligned.

Creating management excellence is the goal of performance management.

Management Excellence is going to be a very important theme for Oracle EPM the coming year."

In October, he launched the issue #2 of The Journal of Management Excellence, with a very nice article about the Office of Strategy Management by Robert Kaplan and David Norton.

Today he posted a link to download four white papers about Management Excellence:
• “Management Excellence: How Tomorrow’s Leaders Will Get Ahead” introduces what management excellence means, and describes the Oracle management process framework called Strategy to Success (S2S)
• “Management Excellence: The Metrics Reloaded” discusses the performance indicators that organizations should focus on when they adopt Strategy to Success
• “Management Excellence: From Strategy to Success” details the S2S processes and introduces a blueprint to map your own management processes
• “Management Excellence: Techniques and Technologies” highlights important techniques that an EPM System must offer in order to support Strategy to Success.

Oracle is doing a great work and those are excellent materials about Management Excellence.