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Turning Decisions into Dollars - Integrating supply chain and operational planning for maximum profitability
The Planning process has routinely been plagued by an ever-widening gap between strategy and operations. River Logic’s Integrated Business Planning (IBP) software, Enterprise Optimizer, is bridging this gap and executives, strategic planners and consultants are taking heed. Download River Logic’s latest white paper to learn more about IBP and how it simultaneously links market and process dynamics to financial outcomes.

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Integrated Business Planning - Taking Strategic Planning to the Competitive Edge
Strategy has become one of the most widely used, and misused, terms in business. Some leaders believe that strategy is the only way to compete in today’s complex and fluid business environment; while others recognize the value of strategy but think strategic planning is dead. Download this whitepaper to see how River Logic's Integrated Business Planning (IBP) software is helping to bridge the gap between market and process dynamics and financial outcomes.

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Redefining the Tools of Engagement
This insightful white paper addresses the many challenges facing today’s consultants. Global supply chains, emerging technologies, faster decision cycles and increasing client demands are forcing consulting firms, regardless of size, to redefine their engagements. Learn how progressive firms are solving a wider range of problems, while directly linking their recommendations to operational and financial impacts. Paper includes results from a recent survey of consultants, conducted by an independent research firm.

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Palladium Group: Enterprise Optimizer® Augments Balanced Scorecard System
This paper summarizes Dr. Robert Kaplan’s and Dr. David Norton’s latest thinking on how best to configure and integrate strategy with operations to achieve breakthrough execution for both. This paper also introduces Enterprise Optimizer (EO), a new technology developed by River Logic. EO, in addition to linking strategy to execution, provides the corresponding financial impact across the entire enterprise, in a single, unified model.

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Superior Supply Chain Management Performance with Holistic Modeling
This 15-page report details Enterprise Optimizer's (EO) power and ability to change the game in supply chain, enterprise planning and decision-making. Current systems such as BI, BPM, and SCM alone can't provide the information required to find and communicate the decisions that yield the best financial results for companies. Read how EO's revolutionary technology provides company executives, managers and their consultant advisors the answers to their ultimate objective; strategies that maximize shareholder value and the ability to move quickly and execute.

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The Advanced M&A Approach: Increasing Success with EP&O
Studies show that 50 to 80% of M&As fail to deliver on potential value. Why? The culprit is proper planning and this paper provides a thorough explanation with case study example on how planning through Enterprise Planning and Optimization (EP&O) methodology can significantly impact the success rate of M&A transactions.

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Agile Planning
In a customer-dominated world with fierce competition and fleeting opportunities, and a shareholder-centric capital market that punishes earnings surprises, it is critical that organizations embrace agile planning processes that connect strategy and execution. This paper uses a familiar flight analogy to illustrate how organizations can embrace agile planning processes to significantly improve performance.

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The Case for Technology in Consulting
Management consulting firms are continually challenged by their clients to offer unique insights to improve market cap. In this paper, former McKinsey consultant Carlos Centurion outlines the current pressures consultants face in differentiating their client service, and how advanced modeling technology can help a consulting firm significantly improve its value proposition to clients and its economic performance.

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EP&O: The Future of Advanced Business Planning
What’s beyond Activity Based Costing and Predictive Analytics? This white paper shows how Enterprise Planning and Optimization (EP&O) can optimize strategic planning to a financial outcome by modeling processes and constraints simultaneously which removes the ‘blindside’ in analysis that CFOs face today. Case study example included

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Delivering Unprecedented Shareholder Value with Holistic Modeling Technology
This paper describes how enterprise-wide holistic modeling technology can provide unprecedented insights that will enable companies to not only take financial performance to a new level, but also to fundamentally change the way they compete in the market.

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Strategic Enterprise Optimization in Forest Products
"Strategic Enterprise Optimization" describes how Forest Products companies can address current industry challenges and significantly improve their financial performance with Enterprise Optimization technology.

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Fundamentals of Profit Improvement
"Fundamentals of Profit Improvement" is an in-depth look at the use of profit as a common business language as well as the reasoning and methodology behind the development of Enterprise Optimizer®.

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The Power of Integrated Decision Making
Studies suggest that the benefits of an Integrated Decision Making (IDM) solution can be quantified in terms of substantial profit improvements as well as other benefits.

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Optimal Decision Analysis
"Optimal Decision Analysis" describes this new category of BPM solution, including the significance of aligning strategic, tactical, and operational plans with an organization's overall objectives.

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Plans Are Nothing. Planning is Everything
Decades of development in managerial accounting, operations research, raw computing power, software development, process modeling, data management and graphics are combining in ways that are rapidly altering the world of integrated decision making. We are on the cusp of a revolution.