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Gary Cokins

Gary Cokins

Founder and CEO - Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC

United States | Professional Services - Information, Technology

When Will Star Wars Performance Management Arrive?

Posted about 11 years ago, 2 comments
Let’s get a bit wild and imagine way out into the future about how a truly futuristic enterprise performance management (PM) framework might operate. (If you are impatient to read my blog on this, then go directly to the bottom and click on the link to the video. After viewing, hopefully then read this blog.)
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A Shift in Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard Message

Posted about 11 years ago, 4 comments
This week I attended the 12th annual Balanced Scorecard Collaborative (now called Palladium) Americas Summit conference. This conference attracts relatively more advanced and mature organizations who have implemented strategy maps and the balanced scorecard (BSC) concepts developed by Dr. Robert S. Kaplan and Dr. David P. Norton.
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Sports and Analytics – A Parallel to Business?

Posted about 11 years ago, 0 comments
There seems to be a growing interest in applying analytics to sports. One example is the popularity of the 2003 book Moneyball that describes the depth of analytics that general managers like Billy Beane of the Oakland Athletics apply to selecting the best players, plus batter and pitcher tactics based on the conditions of the team scores, inning, number of outs, and runners on base. I expand on this trend in an article titled Baseball + Analytics = Improved Performance. Why might this interest be?
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The Promise and Perils of Text Analytics --- Privacy

Posted about 11 years ago, 0 comments
Text analytics may be the next wave of computer analysis. In contrast to quantitative analytics, text analytics broadens mining raw source data beyond numbers to include words, phrases and sentences – alpha characters.
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Don’t Cry Shopgirl

Posted about 11 years ago, 0 comments
I confess. Despite my perception of myself as a tough guy – co-captain of my university football team – my eyes misted at the end of the 1998 Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan movie, You’ve Got Mail. In the film, Hanks’ new big box Barnes and Noble-like book store in NYC’s Manhattan had put Meg Ryan’s small West Side children’s book store out of business.
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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