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Gary Cokins

Gary Cokins

Founder and CEO - Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC

United States | Professional Services - Information, Technology

Up in the Air

Posted almost 3 years ago, 0 comments
Did you see the movie Up in the Air starring George Clooney? Those of you who have not seen it probably have heard something about it. It involves a professional with a job who flies in airline jets so much that hotels and airports become his life.
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Ethics and Fraud – From a Gray Area to Prison

Posted about 3 years ago, 1 comment
I was recently honored to be a keynote speaker at the Institute of Management Accountant’s 91st Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland. Events like this provide me the opportunity to hear other speakers and to get a sense for hot topics and trends. My talk’s topic was on business analytics. But at this year’s conference there was an emphasis on ethics and fraud.
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Horse Racing’s Triple Crown – Just like Business Analysts*

Posted about 3 years ago, 1 comment
The Belmont horserace, third leg of the USA’s prestigious Triple Crown races, was this past week-end. It made me think that thoroughbred racehorses and business analytic and performance management project leaders have similarities depending on which type they are. (This metaphor is also applicable to professional careers.) There are three types of racehorses: starters, stalkers and deep closers. How are business analytics and performance management methodologies project managers similar?
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Wedding Bells: Risk Management and Performance Management

Posted about 3 years ago, 1 comment
Inevitably all managerial methodologies, like customer relationship management and profit management and strategy management, will all be integrated. It may not happen for a few years, but software will make it inevitable. The most recent marriage of two of them, enterprise risk management and performance management, is another indication of this bonding. As evidence, Professor Robert S. Kaplan and Dr. David Norton, the authors of the balanced scorecard book series, have begun publishing materials on this marriage.
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Jack Bauer, “24,” Googly, Appel, and Analytics

Posted about 3 years ago, 0 comments
Ever watch the television serial “24” starring Kiefer Sutherland, the never-smiling Jack Bauer and counterterrorism agent? Although the network claims the show is ending with its final show this week, don’t believe it. Jack Bauer can be hooked up to power cables and never confess, but I was able to get the truth out of him.
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Biography

Company:
Analytics-Based Performance Managent LLC

(Manager, Performance Management Solutions)

Websites:
My Blog
My authors page
My recent Perf Mgmt book

Gary Cokins is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in advanced cost management and performance improvement systems. He is the founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management, an advisory firm located in Cary, North Carolina. Gary received a BS degree with honors in Industrial Engineering/Operations Research from Cornell University in 1971. He received his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in 1974.

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Gary Cokins is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in advanced cost management and performance improvement systems. He is the founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management, an advisory firm located in Cary, North Carolina. Gary received a BS degree with honors in Industrial Engineering/Operations Research from Cornell University in 1971. He received his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in 1974.

Gary began his career as a strategic planner with FMC’s Link-Belt Division and then served as Financial Controller and Operations Manager. In 1981 Gary began his management consulting career first with Deloitte Consulting. Then with KPMG (1988), he was trained on ABC by Harvard Business School Professors Robert S. Kaplan and Robin Cooper. In 1992 Gary headed the National Cost Management Consulting Services for Electronic Data Systems (EDS) now part of HP. From 1997 until recently Gary was in business development with SAS, a leading provider of enterprise performance management and business analytics and intelligence software.

Gary was the lead author of the acclaimed An ABC Manager’s Primer sponsored by the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA). Gary’s next five books are:
- Activity Based Cost Management: Making it Work,
- Activity Based Cost Management: An Executive’s Guide
- Activity Based Cost Management in Government
- Performance Management: Finding the Missing Pieces to Close the Intelligence Gap
- Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics
- Strategic Business Management: From Planning to Performance

Mr. Cokins participates and serves on committees including: The AICPA, CAM-I, the American Association of Accountants (AAA), the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), the Supply Chain Council, and the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA).

Mr. Cokins serves on board of advisors and regularly posts articles for www.kpilibrary.com , www.smartdatacollective.com , http://bigfatfinanceblog.com/ , www.information-management.com , www.iianalytics.com , and www.informs.org .

He serves with Professor Robert S. Kaplan on the International Monetary Fund’s activity-based costing advisory panel.

Mr. Cokins can be reached at gcokins@garycokins.com. His past SAS blogs are at http://blogs.sas.com/content/cokins