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Gary Cokins

Gary Cokins

Founder and CEO - Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC

United States | Professional Services - Information, Technology

Rational versus Emotional Decision Making

Posted over 3 years ago ago, 0 comments
Human brain researchers have determined that the more that is on one’s mind, then the more likely one will make an emotional decision rather than a rational one. Could this provide an explanation why so many decisions by managers and employees continue to seem irrational?
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How can Enterprise Performance Management be Summarized?

Posted over 3 years ago ago, 0 comments
I spend a lot of time investigating and writing about just exactly what enterprise performance management is and how to define it. I am concluding there is no exact way to summarize it. Everyone has a different spin on it.
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Texting – Dangerous for Cars and Decision Makers Too

Posted over 3 years ago ago, 2 comments
The beginning of the New Year saw laws in the USA making texting while driving a car illegal. Some laws also ban cell phone calls. Legislators are realizing that the distraction from texting and cell phone calls while driving is dangerous and are now considered as comparable to driving while intoxicated with alcohol. Maybe we should take these new laws as a signal to modifying our work lives as well.
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Playing in Traffic

Posted over 3 years ago ago, 0 comments
I am inspired by the article by David Fisher, Director of the Defense Department’s Business Transformation Agency, titled Performance Management is a Team Sport. He describes how his organization shifted its emphasis from traditional individual performance appraisals to a method that aligns organizational core mission goals with objective outcome-based metrics and their targets.
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Bending the Curve – With a Fist, BI, or Analytics?

Posted over 3 years ago ago, 0 comments
One of the common phrases bantered about in the USA’s debate about health care reform involves “bending the cost curve.” The phrase refers to concerns that any legislated solution must address reducing the continual increase of the USA’s health care delivery costs.
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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