Where to Focus
You can’t do everything. Focus, alignment and agility will be the keys to success.
No one sets out to destroy value, but organizations can be complex, hiding the true sources of cost, profit and value. Watch this Webcast and learn how to focus your efforts in two key areas:
- Cost: 20 percent of customers typically destroy 400 percent of profit. Cost and profitability analysis provides an understanding of what drives cost and highlights who and what destroys or creates value. Make sure you aren’t destroying value without realizing it.
- Productivity: Only 8 percent of what we do is deemed perfect. New wealth is created by becoming more productive than you were before. To do this, a company must focus on innovation and differentiation. Improving productivity frees up time to focus on these areas, delivers greater revenue and profit, and results in happier, healthier employees.
In this Webcast you’ll hear from:
Peter Turney, PhD
President and CEO
Cost Technology Inc.
As the current President and CEO of Cost Technology Inc., Peter Turney has been an innovator and thought leader in the field of analytics for more than 20 years. His accomplishments span foundational work in activity-based costing to designing today’s integrative analytic solutions.
Turney is a frequent presenter to management groups and has published numerous works including the best-selling book Common Cents, a classic in the performance management field. He has also written for Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Financial Executive, Cost Management and many other leading publications.
Tor Dahl
Economist and Productivity Expert
Tor Dahl is an economist, consultant and associate professor in public health at the University of Minnesota. A Fulbright Scholar in economics, Dahl has published works on healthcare, economics, management, productivity and behavioral change. He was educated at the Norwegian University School of Economics and Business Administration in Bergen, Norway, and at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Jonathan Hornby
Director, Worldwide Product Marketing, Performance Management
SAS
Jonathan Hornby is a visionary and thought leader in the field of performance management. He currently leads global marketing direction and has been involved with both the strategy and product management of SAS' solutions in this space.
His experience includes hands-on work within the UK banking sector, followed by extensive travel, dialogue and collaboration with customers, management consultants and respected thought leaders in academia.



