Opinion | EPM for Dummies
Thursday, 12 September 2024
Apologies for the attention-grabbing headline - no offence intended. This article addresses a common predicament: how do we explain to people outside the performance management domain what we do here at mecklemore?
To us, “enabling meaningful insights into all aspects of business performance” beautifully encapsulates our calling. Driving planning & reporting efficiencies that free up resources to spend more time on value-adding activities, leading to faster, data-driven decisions that power improved business performance nicely sums it up.
We excel in the aforementioned areas for organisations of all sizes across various industries, multiple geographies, and public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. We are among the best Board, Jedox, and Oracle EPM implementation partners in Australia and strongly focus on realising the business benefits these enabling technologies offer. Our growing community of happy clients is a testament to this.
Spreading the word, however, proves difficult at times. When potential advocates of our services ask our team members what we do, the above explanation, more often than not, results in a blank look or a subtle change of subject. And there goes an opportunity wasted...
Here are our attempts to put it simply:
- Angle 1: We help organisations see the full picture, make smarter decisions, and act faster—turning planning, reporting, and forecasting into real business results with less effort and risk.
- Angle 2: We assist organisations that have outgrown Excel when reporting becomes too labour-intensive and error-prone, planning cycles take too long, and plans are difficult to collate and amend.
- Angle 3: We implement user-friendly software that allows you to set clear business goals and targets, track progress towards those goals, analyse data, and make informed decisions to improve results.
- Angle 4: We enable an organisation to align different departments towards common goals, create driver-based plans, make better-informed decisions based on real-time data, improve financial performance and efficiency, and respond more quickly to changes in the business environment.
- Angle 5: We stop companies from flying blind.
Which angle hits the mark for you? How would you best describe it? Drop us a line!
