The Little Book Of Beyond Budgeting
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The Little Book Of Beyond Budgeting
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Author : Dr Steve Morlidge
language : en
Publisher: Matador
Release Date : 2017-11-01
The Little Book Of Beyond Budgeting written by Dr Steve Morlidge and has been published by Matador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-01 with Business & Economics categories.
It is difficult to think of a business process that is as widely unpopular, dysfunctional and discredited as traditional budgeting - yet over a decade after the creation of the Beyond Budgeting movement, many business people are unaware of its existence. And many of those that have heard of it find the Beyond Budgeting ideas difficult to grasp because they have been conditioned by experience to think in a very narrow way about the process of management. This book fills in these gaps in awareness and understanding by answering the question ‘what is Beyond Budgeting?’ in a clear and succinct way to help you make informed choices about the way that you run your business, as an alternative to blindly copying your predecessors. Amongst the things you will discover are: How the financial operating model used to organise and run the affairs of an enterprise impacts many aspects of corporate life, not just the level of business performance The universal law of complexity that explains why traditional budgeting will always fail to deliver what it promises: predictable performance. How the Beyond Budgeting process model is better equipped to deal with the complexity of modern organisational life and the uncertainty of the world Why and how an organisation has to be designed to complement the processes used to plan and control its activities. How to bring about change The goal is to help build healthier, more adaptive organisations, better able to meet the challenges and exploit the opportunities thrown up by the modern world.
The Little Book Of Beyond Budgeting Second Edition
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Author : Steve Morlidge
language : en
Publisher: Beyond Books Press
Release Date : 2025-03-01
The Little Book Of Beyond Budgeting Second Edition written by Steve Morlidge and has been published by Beyond Books Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-01 with Business & Economics categories.
It is difficult to think of a business process that is as unpopular, dysfunctional and discredited as traditional budgeting - yet over two decades after the creation of the Beyond Budgeting movement, many businesspeople are unaware of the fact that there is an alternative. And many of those that have heard of it find the Beyond Budgeting ideas difficult to grasp because they have been conditioned by experience to think in a very narrow way about the process of management. This book fills in these gaps in awareness and understanding by answering the question ‘what is Beyond Budgeting?’ in a clear and succinct way to help you make informed choices about the way that you run your business, as an alternative to blindly copying your predecessors. The second edition contains new content. In particular it explains how the Viable Map helps to diagnose problems with existing management models and design better ones.
Beyond Budgeting
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Author : Jeremy Hope
language : en
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Release Date : 2003
Beyond Budgeting written by Jeremy Hope and has been published by Harvard Business Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Administración categories.
The annual budgeting process is a trap. Pressured by fixed targets and performance incentives, managers focus on making the numbers instead of making a difference, meeting set goals instead of maximizing potential. With their compensation at stake, managers often resort to deceitful-even unethical-behavior. In the end, everybody loses-the employee, the company, and ultimately the customer. Now, finance experts Jeremy Hope and Robin Fraser reveal the results of an intensive study aimed at fixing the broken budgeting process. They argue that companies must abandon traditional budgeting contracts in favor of a radical new model that links performance measurement to evolving competitive benchmarks-and shifts the firm's focus from controlling employee behavior to delivering customer value. The Beyond Budgeting model is built on the best practices of companies that have successfully revised their centralized planning and budgeting processes. It combines a leadership vision that devolves more authority to operating managers and a finance vision that enables fast decision making through appropriate tools and accessible information. Through vivid examples, Hope and Fraser illustrate how companies can implement these shared visions-and the long-term benefits that accrue from embracing them. Offering a compelling case for breaking free from the budgeting trap, this book paves the way toward making organizations better places to work for, invest in, and do business with.
Budgeting Basics And Beyond
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Author : Jae K. Shim
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-12-03
Budgeting Basics And Beyond written by Jae K. Shim and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-03 with Business & Economics categories.
If the very thought of budgets pushes your sanity over the limit, then this practical, easy-to-use guide is just what you need. Budgeting Basics and Beyond, Third Edition equips you with an all-in-one resource guaranteed to make the budgeting process easier, less stressful, and more effective. Written by Jae Shim and Joel Siegel, the new edition covers Balanced Scorecard, budgeting for nonprofit organizations, business simulations for executive and management training, and much more!
The Viable Map Workbook
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Author : Steve Morlidge et al
language : en
Publisher: Beyond Books Press
Release Date : 2023-03-31
The Viable Map Workbook written by Steve Morlidge et al and has been published by Beyond Books Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-31 with Business & Economics categories.
Beyond Budgeting is an idea that has been around for nearly two decades, and many members of the community have written books about the concepts and how to put them into practice. It has become clear, however, that companies attracted to these ideas have sometimes struggled to implement Beyond Budgeting, often because they have not understood the subtlety or the full implications of the ideas and how to execute change. In addition, those of us leading the Beyond Budgeting movement want to have the biggest impact on the world that we possibly can. And to do this we need to find a way to help as many people as possible to join us in putting these ideas into practice, without investing as much time and effort as we have getting to grips with them. The Viable Map is based on an idea that we have worked with for a number of years that helps people to describe their current management model in terms that made it easy for them to see what they needed to do to bring it into line with Beyond Budgeting principles. The original ideas have been improved and extended to create a methodology that helps managers and leaders to better understand Beyond Budgeting at a practical level, to describe their existing model, diagnose what is wrong with it and design a better one. The key idea in the book is that an organisation’s management model must be coherent, in other words be a good ‘fit’ both the nature of the environment in which it operates and the qualities of its people. Thus, its management processes (as defined by the Beyond Budgeting process principles) must be more adaptive when the environment is unpredictable and have a more devolved culture (as defined by the Beyond Budgeting leadership principles). The map itself is a simple grid upon which people can plot their Management Model and the book provides detailed guidance on how to do with with reference to typical practices and methods and how to help ensure coherence, in principle and in practice. It also describes typical ‘patterns’ to look out for, good and bad, and some real-life examples. In summary it will help people translate interest in Beyond Budgeting ideas into practical action and provides a methodology to help guide and coach companies through the transition.
Cost Matters How To Manage Without Budgets And Help Lean And Agile Fly
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Author : Dr Steve Morlidge
language : en
Publisher: Beyond Books Press
Release Date : 2023-02-28
Cost Matters How To Manage Without Budgets And Help Lean And Agile Fly written by Dr Steve Morlidge and has been published by Beyond Books Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-28 with Business & Economics categories.
Over the last few decades businesses have learned to use Lean concepts to make their productive processes more responsive and efficient. And Agile approaches have helped them manage innovation and change more effectively, faced with a climate of uncertainty. But while we have new, better ways to manage the practice of work itself the mechanisms used to manage the associated costs using rigid detailed annual budgets have changed very little in a century. This book describes how to manage costs without budgets and all the other bureaucratic paraphernalia of the past. The result is a holistic approach to managing work that helps unleash the power of Lean and Agile. In a series of short lessons supported by simple illustrations Steve demonstrates how to address the day-to-day challenge of managing costs in a world where change and uncertainty are embraced. Rikard Olsson, Managing Director, Beyond Budgeting Advisory. In this book, with a good sense of humour, Steve explains the concepts of Lean, Agile and why the “old habits” of cost control don’t fit. And what would. Peter Coesmans, Chief Agility Officer, Agile Business Consortium. This is a must-read for any Finance professional, and for anyone interested in Lean and Agile. Bjarte Bogsnes, Chairman, Beyond Budgeting Roundtable.
The Only Budgeting Book You Ll Ever Need
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Author : Tere Stouffer
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-10-18
The Only Budgeting Book You Ll Ever Need written by Tere Stouffer and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-18 with Business & Economics categories.
Create a foolproof budget that's right for you! Everyone wants a simple and practical way to manage their money, but with countless financial planners, budgeting articles, and websites available, it's not always easy to figure out where to start. Filled with only the most essential information on budgeting, this book shows you how to build a financial plan that not only meets your needs, but helps you stay on track. From prioritizing goals and listing expenses to saving regularly and planning for future finances, this book guides you through all the important steps of budgeting with realistic advice. You'll be able to create a visual portrait of your finances as well as learn how to manage your spending, stay out of debt, and build for the future. This book also includes a resource guide for free and up-to-date web tools that make the process as easy and comprehensive as possible. With The Only Budgeting Book You'll Ever Need, you will finally be able to find peace of mind knowing that you can create a realistic budget that works for your financial situation and goals.
Fuzzy Business
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Author : Dr Steve Morlidge
language : en
Publisher: Steve Morlidge
Release Date : 2025-12-31
Fuzzy Business written by Dr Steve Morlidge and has been published by Steve Morlidge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-12-31 with Business & Economics categories.
This a draft copy of a book posted for review purposes only. Our recent scientific advances as a species are the result of more precise facts and knowledge of more and more things. But this precision is both a strength and a weakness because it is based on a monochrome perspective where things are either black and white; true or false. We know from our personal experience at home and in our working lives that most of what we deal with is not precise. It is imprecise and fuzzy, made up of shades or grey. Sometimes this is because we don't have the time or the instruments needed to collect data and be more precise, but often precision doesn't matter for the kind of decisions we need to make. But there are many things that are impossible to measure precisely (such as thoughts feelings and opinions) and others, like any forecast of the future, where we can be precise but we know we will be wrong. We have few tools to help us navigate through this realm of imprecision and fuzziness so we have to fall back on judgement. The good news is that our brains have evolved to handle messy real world data - indeed this is the only form of data we have had for most of our existence. The bad news is that our brains are often fail when we ask it to solve the sort of problems that our Palaeolithic ancestors never had to face - which includes most of what we do at work. We also have no way of surfacing the assumptions behind our judgement in a way that helps us work collabaratively. This books explains ideas and concepts designed to help us manage better in the world as it really is: messy, imprecise, uncertain and ambiguous. In other words how to be roughly right rather than precisely wrong. The key concept of 'fuzzy sets' has been around for over 50 years and is embedded in the technology that controls household devices we use every day such as cameras, smart cookers and automatic gearboxes. These applications demonstrate that this is a set of serious ideas with powerful practical applications. But these devices represent the most sophisticated and complex uses to which these ideas can be put. This book tackles the other end of this spectrum and shows how fuzzy sets can be used to help tackle common place business problems of the sort that we encounter everyday; simple enough to be applied using pen and paper or crude spreadsheets, and without the need for any mathematical training. Although the primary audience for this book is practical business people, it will also be of interest to the intellectually curious general reader because is forces us to question the nature of reality that most of us take for granted. For example, it starts by offering a solution to the Sorites paradox which continues to baffle people, two millennia after it was first stated. It goes like this: If 100 stones make a heap when we take away one is it still a heap? What if we take away another, and another and so on? Intrigued? Read on.
Present Sense
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Author : Steve Morlidge
language : en
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2019-10-04
Present Sense written by Steve Morlidge and has been published by Troubador Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-04 with Business & Economics categories.
In this provocative yet practical guidebook Steve Morlidge demonstrates why the approach and methods of performance reporting that all information professionals have been taught fails, and what we need to do differently to help us make sense of the dynamic, complex and data rich world in which we now live and work. Reporting on performance should not be treated as worthy but dull, requiring no more than routine comparisons of actual against targets. This traditional approach is based on the false premise organisations can be managed as if they were a simple mechanical system operating in a predictable environment. And the methods associated with it, such as variance analyses and data tables that are used to measure and communicate performance, are completely inadequate. Instead, Morlidge argues performance reporting should be reconceived as an act of perception conducted on behalf of the organisation, helping to make sense of the sensory inputs (data) that it has at its disposal. And to do so effectively performance reporters need to learn from and exploit the strengths of our own brains, compensate for its weaknesses and communicate in a way that makes it easy for their audience’s brains to assimilate. Drawing on the latest insights from cognitive science in this book you will learn: • how to bring a dynamic perspective into performance reporting • how to deploy a set of simple tools to help speared the signal from the noise inherent in large data sets and to make sound inferences • how to set goals intelligently • about the grammar of data visualization and how use it to design powerful and simple reports In this way information professionals are uniquely charged with the responsibility for creating the shared consciousness that is a prerequisite for organisations to effectively respond and adapt to their environments.
The Little Book Of Operational Forecasting
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Author : Dr Steve Morlidge
language : en
Publisher: Matador
Release Date : 2018-06-01
The Little Book Of Operational Forecasting written by Dr Steve Morlidge and has been published by Matador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-01 with Business & Economics categories.
Operational forecasting sits at the heart of many businesses because it informs every decision taken to get the right amount of product (or service capacity), in the right place, at the right time. But is also one of the most misunderstood and undervalued activities. As a result, most businesses carry enormous amounts of unnecessary inventory while simultaneously failing to offer their customers the level of service that they expect. So, any efficiency or performance improvement initiative is automatically held back by having to drag around this wastage At best, the managers in these businesses may suspect there is scope for improvement but have no idea how much ‘weight’ they can lose or how to go about shedding it. At worst, they assume that trying harder and investing in more “sophisticated” software will automatically take care of the problem because they are blind to the amount of surplus baggage they are dragging around. This book demystifies operational forecasting through a series of bite sized ‘lessons’ supported by simple illustrations, that address the fundamental questions that anyone with an interest or stake in operational forecasting needs to be able to answer: · Why forecast? · What do we need to understand before we start forecasting? · How do we forecast? · What does success look like? · How can we improve? Aimed primarily at forecasting practitioners and anyone responsible for, or reliant on, what they do, this book also is an excellent primer for anyone wanting to understand the process but not the mathematics that comes with most books on the subject. And if you need extra motivation to keep reading, research has shown that poor forecasting is often the single largest source of corporate waste – adding around 2% to your cost of sales. So, read on – your only risk is becoming a corporate hero!