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Pedro San Martin (Anahuac)
Jun 22
The Model Doesn’t Lie
Twelve executives approved the same profitability model. They had each signed a different one. EPM…
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Chandan Jha
May 25 · 5 min read
Profitability in the Digital Age: Leveraging AI, Analytics and Automation
As we are unable to provide a replay (technical difficulties) for this webinar, I have instead…
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Paulo Ribeiro
Mar 1 · 14 min read
The Agile Enterprise: Navigating Volatility Through Driver-Based Planning
The Hundred-Day Blind Spot It was late October, and Mark Ryan, General Manager of GlobalTech, sat…
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Admin
Feb 16 · 2 min read
Boards Approve AI on Unstated Assumptions (And Accountability Turns Into Politics)
When AI investments underperform, the post-mortem usually devolves into debate: “The business…
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Admin
Jan 27 · 2 min read
10 Facts About Management Accounting You May Not Know!
It's Saturday and over morning coffee ☕ I started looking at facts about accounting - historical…
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Admin
Jan 8 · 1 min read
Strategy execution improves not when targets are tightened, but when insight…
Few things concern boards and CEOs more than the gap between strategy and execution. Most…
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Gary Cokins
Jun 4 · 3 min read
What is Cost Accounting? An Ice, Water, and Vapor Analogy
By Gary Cokins; Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC, President … and Profitability…
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Pedro San Martin (Anahuac)
Apr 25
When Labor Costs Become Strategy
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Admin
Feb 28 · 2 min read
Who defines PACE's mission?
Post by Lukas Rieder The executives of a company must ensure that it achieves a market-driven…
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Pedro San Martin (Anahuac)
Feb 15 · 6 min read
Why the Finance Partnering Framework Fails Without CFO Ownership
In a North American boardroom, organizational leaders convened for their fifth finance…
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Admin
Jan 8 · 4 min read
My 2026 Business & Finance Predictions: From Insight to Economic Control
I have been thinking a lot about what might happen in 2026 and although there is a lot of…
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Admin
Jan 8 · 1 min read
If profitability is so important, why do smart leadership teams still struggle to…
In my experience, the challenge is not a lack of financial data. It is a lack of integration and…
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Pedro San Martin (Anahuac)
May 30
The Model Works — But Can You Trust It?
Enron, WorldCom, Satyam — six famous failures that passed every spreadsheet test. The numbers…
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Admin
Mar 12 · 2 min read
Stop Treating AI Like a Participation Trophy!
If we measure AI adoption like a participation trophy, don’t be surprised when the market thinks…
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Admin
Feb 16 · 2 min read
AI Value Lags Deployment (Because Value Is Post-Behavior Change)
Boards often assume value arrives when the model goes live. Reality: value arrives when behavior…
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Admin
Feb 11 · 2 min read
Your AI Business Case Excludes the Real Costs (Because You’re Counting Purchase…
Most AI business cases still feel “clean” because they’re built from what’s easy to count:…
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Admin
Jan 8 · 1 min read
For risk, early warning comes from understanding drivers, not outcomes.
Risk oversight has become a central responsibility for boards and senior leadership teams. Yet many…
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Admin
Jan 7 · 2 min read
Most organizations report profitability well.Very few understand it causally.
Over the years, I’ve worked with boards, CEOs, CFOs, and senior leadership teams who are deeply…
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