Gary Cokins
Gary Cokins is the global product marketing manager for Performance Management solutions at SAS, a market leader in data management, business intelligence and analytical software. He is an internationally recognized expert, speaker and author on advanced cost management and performance improvement systems. He is the author of five books, An ABC Manager's Primer, Activity-Based Cost Management: Making It Work, Activity-Based Cost Management: An Executive's Guide (Wiley), Activity-Based Cost Management in Government and his latest work, Performance Management: Finding the Missing Pieces to Close the Intelligence Gap (Wiley). You can contact him at gary.cokins@sas.com. For more of Cokins' unique look at the world, visit his blog at http://blogs.sas.com/cokins/.
Recent Stories From this Author
Has Lean Management Gone Too Far by Defining Its Own Accounting?
July 30, 2008 The management accounting community is wrestling with controversy - conflicts and ambiguities caused by competing forms of...
If Enterprise Performance Management Is a Machine, Are Its Workers Robots or Humans?
July 2, 2008 It would be myopic to omit HCM from inclusion in the performance management portfolio of methodologies. People matter.
Performance Management from Future Diaries
June 5, 2008 From the year 2015, here are fictitious diary entries from executives reflecting on their experience implementing a performance...
Why Do Capital Market Organizations Underachieve their Planned ROI?
May 1, 2008 As the capital market firms influence their acquired companies to adopt PM methodologies, their desired ROI targets will be...
How are Balanced Scorecards and Dashboards Different?
April 3, 2008 The purpose of KPIs should be to accelerate the implementation of an organization’s scorecard/dashboard system.
When Performance Management Becomes Surgery
March 5, 2008 Change is a given. Most of us accept that we have little control of forces and pressures that impact our organizations....
Green or Greedy? Environmental Performance Management
January 31, 2008 I am increasingly paying attention to the term “triple bottom line” - profits, people and planet - for environmental...
Interview with a CEO You Might Want to Work For
January 3, 2008 Imagine that I am a journalist. How would you enjoy working for an organization whose leader answered my interview questions as...
A Magic Wand to Manage Enterprise Performance
December 6, 2007 How would you apply a magic wand to the managers of your organization?
Rules for Assuring Poor Performance
November 1, 2007 Are you undermining your organization's success?
