Articles
A selection of thought pieces written by Confida consultants is listed below according to categories. Please click on the appropriate icon below to view the selected piece or have a brochure mailed to your address.
Financial Analytics
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How to
Measure Profitability for Any Segment of Your Business
flexible activity-based cost and profitability model |
Demand-Driven Budgeting
zero-based methodology closely linking budgets to business drivers |
Distributed Decision Making - A Powerful Leadership
Paradigm
a non-traditional way to share leadership duties throughout the organization |
Inventory Analytics
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Tradeoff Between Service and Inventory Levels - Does it
Really Exist?
a one-size fits all strategy sub-optimizes the inventory tradeoff predicament |
Transitioning from MRP to Lean-ROP - The Challenge
introducing a tool and a flexible process to optimize inventory management |
The
Challenge of Effective Inventory Management
an economically-calibrated prioritization and segmentation approach to the management of inventory items |
Customer Analytics
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Using
Decision Support to Leverage Customer Relationships
a fact-based approach to leveraging customer relationships |
Project |
Executive Project - Effective Control from the Top
how to manage the "infinite ongoing project clutter" |
Managing the Impossible Project
practical strategies for when all hell breaks loose |
Project Prioritization Simplified
a "shortcut" methodology for fact-based project prioritizing |
General |
A
Fact-Based Case Against Gut-Level Decisions
why organizations need to morph their decision-making processes at the grassroots level |
Decision Support Primer - A Breakdown of Industry
Jargon
a primer to help sort out the alphabet soup nomenclature in decision support and business intelligence |