Cohn Consulting Group provides Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) services based upon its unique approach, the Performance Power Grid™. This award-winning management methodology organizes and facilitates the development of a dynamic strategic plan—including real-time performance management, monitoring, and reporting—to help achieve defined objectives. The Performance Power Grid spans from the boardroom to the cubicle; from accounting, finance, and operations to the edge of the enterprise; laying the proper foundation that drives overall organizational performance to the next level—painting a clear picture of a client’s performance and what drives it. Services include:
EPM and BPM Full Lifecycle Management
Whether your organization is just starting its performance management initiative, or has been working at it for some time, our best practice methodology serves as the optimum process to move you towards your objectives. Widely regarded as today’s leading EPM methodology, our process approach provides a strong foundation in several key areas: What are the right measures and metrics to manage? Do I have the right technology to serve as key data sources, or present management information in the way it needs to be presented? What step-by-step plan will take you from where you are today to the destination you want to reach? How do we tie together currently disparate initiatives such as process improvement, management reporting, budget, planning and forecasting, and scorecards and dashboards, into something that will provide a return on investment and sustainable superior performance? In order to identify specific initiatives and tasks that must be implemented in order to support an EPM vision, we will create a detailed plan that pinpoints gaps in your current approach, key dependencies, and critical tasks within a "roadmap" document that becomes the overall EPM initiative strategy.
Streamlining Budget, Planning, and Forecasting
Today, effective budgeting, planning and forecasting (BP&F) is accomplished through the integration of a sound business process, an enabling technology, consistent financial performance reporting and 'what-if' modeling. Our best practice methodology is used as the benchmark against which your process, technology, and reporting is measured to determine what your specific challenges are; what the best possible "future-state" is; and how to go about achieving it in practical, manageable steps.
Technology Assessments and EPM/BI Application Selection
Some organizations already own this technology and are trying to determine if it actually meets their needs, while others are looking to see past the sales jargon to understand which tool will actually best meet their needs. Leverage the depth of our expertise and our objective tool agnostic position in the market. We will help you assess whether or not what you already own will meet your needs. Or, if new technology is required, what short list of vendors most meets the needs of your organization – taking into account your goals, your challenges, and your technology architecture. Leverage the respect our firm has as one of the nation's premier EPM practices and gain insight into the true, total cost of ownership and how to most effectively negotiate with vendors.
Strategic Objective Alignment and Implementation
It is often unnecessary to go through a long and cumbersome strategic planning process in order to integrate strategic goals into your organization, processes, key measures and metrics, and/or compensation plans. This service is for those looking to “operationalize” their strategic objectives, mission, or vision statements, by defining those actions or tasks critical to success; creating the hierarchy of measures and metrics necessary to manage these items; and putting in place the reporting necessary to monitor progress.
Implementations, Dashboards, Report Development, and Data Management
Our technical staff offers a full range of development services designed to meet all of your Information Technology reporting needs, including report and dashboard development in most of today's leading EPM/BPM/BI technologies; scripting related to the consolidation and movement of data (ETL – Extract, Transform and Load); the design and build of data storage assets (data marts and data warehouses), and programming in today's most common languages.
EPM/BPM Project Management, Mentoring, and Workshops
For those organizations implementing EPM/BPM with their own staff, but looking for additional guidance or training on best practices and common pitfalls, we provide executive mentoring, project management and/or guidance, and a series of workshops designed to give you the guidance you are seeking.