Welcome to Corporater User Conference 2010!
Paul R. Niven
Paul Niven is a noted speaker and writer on the subjects of Strategy, the Balanced Scorecard, and Performance Management. He has delivered keynote addresses at conference events around the world and has published in a number of noted journals.
In his new book, and first management fable, Roadmaps and Revelations: Finding the Road to Business Success on Route 101 Paul uses an entertaining storyline to walk you through the daunting process of creating a successful strategy. The model challenges organizations to answer four questions that are fundamental to a development of a differentiating and winning strategy. Sprinkled with practical examples and workable solutions for business executives, managers, and consultants, this motivating fable will put you on track towards creating a strategy for sustainable success.
Jeremy Hope
Jeremy Hope is the author of a number of articles and books on performance management and associated leadership issues. His article on Beyond Budgeting with colleague Robin Fraser won the prestigious IFAC award for the best management accounting article of 1998. He has co-authored (with Robin Fraser) an article titled Who Needs Budgets in the Harvard Business Review, February 2003. He is a renowned author of management books, Beyond Budgeting (2003) (co-authored with Robin Fraser), Re-inventing the CFO (2006), Transforming the Bottom Line (1995) and Competing in the Third Wave (1997), both co-authored with his brother Tony Hope. His books have been translated into many languages and have won coveted awards in USA. He has given many keynote speeches at major conferences on performance management topics. He began his career as a Chartered Accountant and has since had experience in venture capital and business management. Since 1998 his work has been focused on Beyond Budgeting and he is currently the Research Director of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRT), an organization dedicated to helping firms improve their performance management processes.
Steve Morlidge
Steve Morlidge has 30 years of practical experience, designing and running performance management systems in Unilever, including 3 years as the lead of a global change project. He is a former Chairman of the European Beyond Budgeting Round Table and now works as an academic and as an independent consultant for a range of major companies. He is regularly engaged as a public speaker, drawing on his years of experience at the leading edge of performance management thought and practice. He has recently published a book, Future Ready: How to Master Business Forecasting (John Wiley and Sons).
Bjarte Bogsnes
Bjarte Bognes is an excellent speaker with a professional touch that you will enjoy greatly. He heads the implementation of Beyond Budgeting in Statoil and is probably the most experienced person in Norway on practicing performance management without budgets. He has managed a similar project before, in Borealis. Bjarte is the Chairman of Beyond Budgeting Round Table, Europe. He recently published a book: Implementing Beyond Budgeting with a preface by Robert S. Kaplan from Harvard.
