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	<title>David Parmenter</title>
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		<title>New White Paper: Conquest&#160;Management</title>
		<link>http://davidparmenter.com/2008/10/new-white-paper-conquest-management</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parmenter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Conquest management - developing and using winning management practices’  by David Parmenter from the author of the ground breaking “KPI – developing, implementing and using winning KPIs” This major piece of work is issued as an extensive whitepaper with electronic templates to revolutionize your management career. The cost is NZ$299, see conquestmanagement.com for more information.
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		<title>Articles and Books to read for Corporate&#160;Accountants</title>
		<link>http://davidparmenter.com/2008/10/articles-and-books-to-read-for-corporate-accountants</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parmenter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen&#160;Few
A must visit for all corporate accountants is Stephen Few’s company’s website where he has lodged many high quality whitepapers on the topic of graphical displays. Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data is his latest book, which is highly rated.
Jeremy&#160;Hope
Jeremy Hope is I believe the world’s foremost thought leader on corporate accounting issues. Jeremy was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Article: Timely Annual Planning Process – 10 Working Days or&#160;Less!</title>
		<link>http://davidparmenter.com/2008/06/article-timely-annual-planning-process-%e2%80%93-10-working-days-or-less</link>
		<comments>http://davidparmenter.com/2008/06/article-timely-annual-planning-process-%e2%80%93-10-working-days-or-less#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parmenter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Extract from “Pareto&#8217;s 80/20 Rule for the Corporate Accountant” published by John Wiley &#38; Sons Inc
Background
This sounds impossible yet it is achieved.  It takes good organization and recognition that the annualplanning process is not adding value, instead it is undermining an efficient allocation of resources,encouraging dysfunctional budget holder behaviour, negating the value of monthly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Article: Finding Your Organisation&#8217;s Critical Success&#160;Factors</title>
		<link>http://davidparmenter.com/2008/06/article-finding-your-organisations-critical-success-factors</link>
		<comments>http://davidparmenter.com/2008/06/article-finding-your-organisations-critical-success-factors#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 22:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parmenter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Most organizations know their success factors, however few organizations have:

worded their success factors appropriately
segregated out success factors from their strategic objectives
sifted through them to find their critical ones – their CSFs
communicated the CSFs to staff

Finding an organization’s CSFs is relatively simple step, and is the focus of this article.  I want to show you a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Article: How to implement a balanced scorecard in 16 Weeks not 16&#160;months</title>
		<link>http://davidparmenter.com/2008/05/article-how-to-implement-a-balanced-scorecard-in-16-weeks-not-16-months</link>
		<comments>http://davidparmenter.com/2008/05/article-how-to-implement-a-balanced-scorecard-in-16-weeks-not-16-months#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 22:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parmenter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, in their groundbreaking work The Balanced Scorecard, indicate that 16 weeks is an adequate time frame to set up a Balanced Scorecard (BSC). Why then does 16 weeks so often become 16 months? And, if BSC processes have revolutionised organisations, why aren&#8217;t all organisations, with more than, say, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Month-end Reporting Workshop&#160;Testimonial</title>
		<link>http://davidparmenter.com/2008/05/quick-month-end-reporting-workshop-testimonial</link>
		<comments>http://davidparmenter.com/2008/05/quick-month-end-reporting-workshop-testimonial#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 22:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parmenter</dc:creator>
		
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I recently attended your &#8216;Quick Month-end Reporting&#8217; through CIMA and although somewhat skeptical on the day, I thought you would be interested in some feed back on what was achieved in month one.
Our reporting timetable was somewhat flexible and figures tended to be prepared for BPG (Business Planning Group) 3rd Wednesday of the Month and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blenheim Palace Celebrates Another&#160;Victory</title>
		<link>http://davidparmenter.com/2008/05/blenheim-palace-celebrates-another-victory</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 21:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parmenter</dc:creator>
		
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Built to honour the Duke of Marlborough’s victory over the French, this fine stately home is one of the treasures of England.The Finance team, after attending David’s course have managed a sweet victory of their own.Following our attendance at your inspiring two days of presentations we went away convinced we could achieve our month end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Webcast “A Balanced Scorecard in 16 Weeks, Not 16&#160;Months”</title>
		<link>http://davidparmenter.com/2008/05/webcast-%e2%80%9ca-balanced-scorecard-in-16-weeks-not-16-months%e2%80%9d</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 21:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parmenter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Below are some questions and answers from the webcast I did for bettermanagement.com “A Balanced Scorecard in 16 Weeks, Not 16 Months” the other day. It is available online in and it is free to register and listen to the archived copy.

We&#8217;re part-way through a long implementation which isn&#8217;t working. What actions should we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Webcast &#8220;Implementing KPIs - a twelve step&#160;process&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://davidparmenter.com/2008/01/webcast-implementing-kpis-a-twelve-step-process</link>
		<comments>http://davidparmenter.com/2008/01/webcast-implementing-kpis-a-twelve-step-process#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parmenter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Below are some questions and answers from the webcast I did for bettermanagement.com &#8220;Implementing KPIs - a twelve step process&#8221;" the other day. It will be available online in a few days and it is free to register and listen to the archived copy. This is the largest webcast bettermanagement.com has had, with over 800 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Reviews of my Pareto&#8217;s&#160;Book</title>
		<link>http://davidparmenter.com/2007/10/recent-reviews-of-my-paretos-book</link>
		<comments>http://davidparmenter.com/2007/10/recent-reviews-of-my-paretos-book#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parmenter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Excellent - Eddy Peach (Erie&#160;PA)
Great book, great ideas&#8230; inspiring! (or, at least as inspirational as you can get I guess, for a book about acctg)
 Great practical advice -  	Damien Kelly (Chicago,&#160;USA)
I first came across David Parmenters work on [bettermanagement.com] where he has a number of artcles and webinars posted. What I like about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Reviews of my KPI&#160;Book</title>
		<link>http://davidparmenter.com/2007/10/recent-reviews-of-my-kpi-book</link>
		<comments>http://davidparmenter.com/2007/10/recent-reviews-of-my-kpi-book#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parmenter</dc:creator>
		
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Breathtaking in its simplicity and profound in its impact, &#8220;Key Performance Indicators&#8221; (KPI) distills the balanced scorecard process into twelve logical steps, equipping users with an implementation resource kit that includes questionnaires, worksheets, workshop outlines, and a list of over 500 performance measures. Author David Parmenter provides you with everything you need to master and [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 03:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
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I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed your web seminar on 3 March. For the last two weeks I have been telling clients to take the &#8220;K&#8221; of off all their KPI&#8217;s and only put it back on the 5 that they would benefit by monitoring daily. It&#8217;s early days so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questions and Answers - August 21,&#160;2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just finished Pareto&#8217;s 80/20 and thought it excellent. However, one issue I did not see addressed here or in your other writings was how to address performance management with rolling plans/forecasts. In a traditional system there is a fixed contract as you call it and how you perform against it determines your rewards. How does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Throw out the budget process, or at least radically alter&#160;it</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Companies in Asia, Europe, America and some in New Zealand are recognising that the existing budget process cannot continue. It has been with us, some say, since the Roman calendar was adopted by the western world. It is now seen by many that the budget process is a hindrance to management rather than a help. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to implement quarterly rolling planning - and get it right first&#160;time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[â€œQuarterly rolling planning (QRP) is the most important management tool of this decade and is a process that will revolutionise any public or private sector organisation!â€QRP removes the four main barriers to success that an annual planning process erects. An annual funding regime where budget holders are encouraged to be dysfunctional, a reporting regime base [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barriers to implementing a quarterly rolling&#160;forecast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In earlier articles I promoted the use of quarterly rolling forecast forecasts, explained what they are and set out the lessons that organisation have learnt, the painful way. Now I wish to look at the implementation issues.
Whilst all implementations will be unique they should have many common features just like a fingerprint. This article will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to implement a quarterly rolling forecasting on a planning tool - the lessons to&#160;learn</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Many have had to rebuild the planning model within 18 months of its commissioning, as a better understanding of the planning tool and its capabilities comes to light&#8221;.
In my article &#8220;Demolishing barriers to success&#8221; (March 2005) I said that quarterly rolling planning (QRP) is the most important management tool of this decade. I explained how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is your budgeting process adding value to your&#160;company?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vast amounts of management and accountantsâ€™ time are invested right across the country in this exercise. Yet, within months the whole exercise is revisited, and then forecasts are performed.
Have you ever worked out how much is invested in the budget process? We estimate that for a hypothetical company with 500 staff, the personnel costs are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nine Lessons When Implementing a Quarterly Rolling Forecast on a Planning&#160;Tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent study done in America indicated that over 80% of the organisations were expecting to have a rolling forecast in place in 2005. Why are our cousins in America so keen on a rolling forecast? I believe it is one of the most important management tools that has been greatly under estimated here in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Action meetings and other major management&#160;breakthroughs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Management today are ensnared by many time wasting traps. Fortunately a few enlightened organisations around the world are forging a pathway for us to observe and follow. The time wasters I want to address are:

morning meetings
unproductive meetings
unnecessary travel
the annual planning process
rewriting Board papers
monthly performance reporting
handling emails

Let&#8217;s take a look at how these time wasters can [...]]]></description>
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