In this article, Kaplan, of Harvard Business School, and Norton, founder and director of the Palladium Group, explain how to effectively manage both strategy and operations by linking them tightly in a closed-loop management system, which comprises five stages. 

<p>Watch this webcast to learn how to motivate your employees to align their goals with your core business initiatives. Discover how investing in your people can gain you a competitive advantage in the long run.</p> 

Read this white paper to learn how to integrate your operations into a new structure acquired through mergers and acquisitions; align your IT operations into a single platform; enhance customer service; increase the productivity of your global workforce; and bolster supply chain efficiency. 

By using the Oracle Exadata Database Machine as a data warehouse platform you have a balanced, high performance hardware configuration. This paper focuses on the other two corner stones, data modeling and data loading, providing a set of best practices and examples for deploying a data warehouse on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine. 

Read this white paper to learn how to implement the product-by-product profitability analysis that manufacturers need to improve their bottom line. 

This white paper examines credit card fraud and details business rules-based fraud prevention and detection. 

This paper from looks Ovum Research examines the key criteria and considerations you need to be aware of when evaluating your organizations BI and analytics strategy. 

This whitepaper, aimed strategic decision makers, will discuss how you can reduce telephony costs, maximize your ROI and improve your business collaboration and communication activities. 

This benchmarking study from ESI International identifies the trends impacting the project management function in IT industry in three areas: PMO maturity, measuring and reporting on PMO effectiveness, as well as training involvement. 

Interact with leading healthcare compliance and IT experts from across the U.S. in this free, one-day virtual seminar. Learn best practices for cloud computing and disaster preparedness, as well as how to achieve federal EHR reimbursements. 

Test Drive IBM Cognos Express in the Cloud! Check out this easy online trial of IBM Cognos Express. Take a closer look at selected reporting, analysis and planning capabilities – without installing any software on your system. You can access the trial online for up to four hours and repeat the trial as often as you like. 

View this interactive E-Book to learn how Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) systems provide your business with an unprecedented solution that is complete, open and integrated.