Webcasts
Cost Technology’s experts frequently share their knowledge and perspectives on relevant business principles and ideas on BetterManagement.com, a business management resource dedicated to improving leadership and decision making skills of business and government executives around the world. If you have a question or area of interest not addressed in the content below, please submit an expertise inquiry.
Cost and Profit Optimization
This webcast will give you a clear understanding of how to focus your organization’s improvement efforts. You will hear from Dr. Peter Turney, CEO of Cost Technology; Matthew Mitchell, Vice President and Cost Accounting Manager, First National Bank of Arizona and Jonathan Hornby, Director, Worldwide Marketing for Performance Management of SAS . All have key lessons to share from many years of experience. Find out what works and which paths to avoid. Techniques and technology have evolved and made way for innovations that were previously considered unrealistic. Make sure your organization is not left behind.
Radical Times Require Radical Action: Where to Focus (Part 2)
Every day another company announces job cuts. The United Nations predicts another 20 million job losses as a result of the financial crisis. If correct, it will mean little innovation or growth. BetterManagement.com has teamed up with SAS and International Speakers Bureau to recruit some of the sharpest minds, and ask them to share their thoughts – regardless of how radical they may seem – on how organizations can improve. In this second webcast of a four part series, learn where to focus your efforts and how alignment and agility can be the keys to survival and success. You will hear from Dr. Peter Turney, CEO of Cost Technology; Tor Dahl, economist and productivity expert; and Jonathon Hornby, Director, Worldwide Marketing of SAS.
Survive and Thrive in an Uncertain Economy
Your costs and shareholder interest have probably increased. Perhaps you fell victim to fuel prices, the stock market or access to capital. All eyes are on two things – reducing cost and preservation. Come hear how many companies destroy 400% of the figure sitting in their P&L as profit without realizing it. Question whether your organization could be doing the same. Learn how to reverse the process and evolve into an agile, fact-driven organization that thrives in both the good and bad times. Join Dr. Peter Turney, CEO of Cost Technology, Inc. and Jonathan Hornby, Director of Worldwide Product Marketing at SAS as they provide knowledgeable insights and best practices on how Activity Based Management and Performance Management practices can help your organization thrive in these demanding times.
Doing More with Less: 10 Ways to Get the Most out of Public Sector Resources
Doing more with less is one of the major challenges facing state and local governments today. Budgetary pressures are compounded by rising costs, increasing constituent expectations and legislative scrutiny. Ultimately, organizations must decide how to provide the right constituent services with the appropriate resources, while attaining strategic goals and managing performance. Learn from hosts Dr. Peter Turney, CEO of Cost Technology, and M. Minti Ray, Associate Director of Cost Technology, as they teach you to use your key resources in the most efficient way possible.
Optimizing Cost, Profit, and Value
This webcast will give you a clear understanding of how to focus your organization’s improvement efforts. Find out what works and which paths to avoid. Techniques and technology have evolved and made way for innovations that were previously considered unrealistic. Make sure your organization is not left behind. You will hear from Dr. Peter Turney, President and CEO of Cost Technology; Loraine V. Dexter, Vice Senior Vice President Management Reporting, Mutual of Omaha Bank and Jonathan Hornby, Director, Worldwide Marketing for Performance Management of SAS . All have key lessons to share from many years of experience.
Linking ABC and the Balanced Scorecard
Until now Activity-Based Costing and the Balanced Scorecard have followed successful but largely independent paths. In this web seminar, Dr. Peter Turney explains the value of linking these two methods. He explains how linkage eliminates weaknesses in each method and enhances their collective value. He provides examples of successful linkage, and shows how linkage was accomplished.
The Fast Road to Better Performance at South Dakota DOT
Challenging budgetary conditions have government agencies looking for ways to improve performance. In this presentation, Dr. Peter Turney and Roxanne Rice tell the story of the South Dakota Department of Transportation’s (SDDOT) “high tech, high touch” approach to performance improvement. Turney and Rice describe SDDOT’s unique combination of performance analytics and collaborative methods that have yielded cost savings of 20-30% and other significant performance benefits.
More Common Cents: Developments in the Field of ABC and ABM
Join Dr. Peter Turney as he highlights developments in the fields of ABC and ABM. When first developed, ABC was a costing tool used primarily to accurately allocate manufacturing overhead. Today, ABC is a sustainable analytic method that creates business intelligence for a wide range of applications in service and government organizations as well as manufacturing companies. In this celebration of the second edition of Common Cents, Dr. Turney will review the evolution of ABC and ABM over the 15 years since the publication of the first edition.
Discover the Path to Improved Performance
Public sector organizations continue to face budget constraints while striving to provide a high level of service to their customers/constituents. As service levels and other outcome measures continue to rise, resources and staffing levels are not keeping up with such demands. These constraints, combined with fiscal pressures, have jeopardized the mission critical functions of these organizations. To resolve this challenge, government organizations are turning to performance management to prepare a road map for success, gain cost savings, improve processes, free up people’s time to do the work and ensure that taxpayer dollars are being spent in the best way possible. Join Dr. Peter Turney and Dr. Manash Ray, executives of Cost Technology, as they discuss performance management concepts and share insights about issues related to public sector performance management.