Enterprise Performance Management Done Right: An Operating System for Your Organization

Acknowledgments

To my friend Simon Tucker from whom I have learned much and shared many adventures and laughs. Much of the content for this book was formed and validated while working with Simon on myriad clients.

Thanks to Gebhard Rainer for his foreword—I first heard Gebhard speak at a Hyperion event in 2004 and I realized just how much difference EPM can make in a business.

To those who encouraged and supported me in writing this book: Rick Cadman, Dawna MacLean, Nancy Belmont, Tony Mayo, and my advisory board and brain trust in Tony's Vitality, Service and Outstanding Performance (VSOP) executive coaching group. A special thanks to Tony for recommending Scrivener software, which doubled my productivity overnight.

To Howard Dresner and Frank Buytendijk, who made strategy fun.

To my early mentors from Deloitte in Toronto: John Gambles, P. Howard Lyons, Jim Youldon, and Denman Lawrenson.

To Alan Slaight for letting me work on his book on Stewart James (Stewart James in Print: The First Fifty Years [Jogestja, 1989]).

To friends and colleagues who reviewed the content, gave me feedback, and helped improve the overall quality of the book, especially Rich Fluck, Nina Acosta, Kim Flaherty, Toby Hatch, John O'Rourke, and again, Rick Cadman.

To Oracle Corporation and Tableau Software Inc. for their screenshots.

To my editors at John Wiley & Sons: Tim Burgard and Stacey Rivera, with much gratitude for their vision and their patience.

To countless colleagues at Deloitte, ITG, Hyperion, ...