News and Events

Webcasts

• View a variety of Performance Management Webcasts from SAS.
• View Performance Management Webcasts on BetterManagement.com.

News from SAS

• Survey Ranks SAS Highly for Performance Management (February 5, 2007)
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital Improves Patient Care with SAS (December 4, 2006)
• SAS aligns offering to span performance management spectrum (May 17, 2006)
• Modernizing the U.S. Coast Guard (March 27, 2006)
• SAS and Balanced Scorecard Collaborative cooperate in European launch of Office of Strategy Management (August 4, 2005)
• Recent SAS Press Releases

Industry News

• Measure it, Manage it - Agencies boost performance PDF: 520KB (Federal Computer Week Tech Watch, November 2007)
• Performance Management - Making It Work: Common Misunderstandings about Performance Management (DM Review, February 2005)
• Performance Management on BetterManagement.com

Editor's Choice Book

Performance Management: Finding the Missing Pieces to Close the Intelligence Gap by Gary Cokins

This book emphasizes that the analytical tools (e.g., balanced scorecard, activity-based management, etc.) that now exist have been tested and are mature, and that their integration is now the big opportunity. This means not just information technology systems integration but the integration of "thinking" (i.e., most corporations are missing a mechanism to test and validate whether lofty goals can realistically be achieved). This book shows how performance management is that mechanism and that it helps corporations to "actively" manage change.