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The Buttonwood Group, LLP
700 Canal Street, 3rd Floor
Stamford, CT 06902
203 . 328 . 3056
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The Buttonwood Group LLP is a research and consulting firm specializing in
performance management and organizational effectiveness; and has been
recognized by CFO Magazine as a leading provider of planning
solutions. We help organizations select and implement best practice tools,
technology and processes to transform their traditional performance management
and planning processes into a value added management system to drive results.
Our highly collaborative approach; unparalleled expertise in planning,
budgeting & forecasting; and proven toolkit provide a unique combination to
ensure the success of any redesign effort. In addition, our proprietary
research with partners such as CFO Magazine, Financial Executives
International, the New York Society of Securities Analysts and others allow us
to constantly stay abreast of innovative practices in planning and performance
management.
On our site you can learn about the five most often discussed,
"packaged" solutions to better planning - everything from
Rolling Forecasts and Balanced Scorecards,
to Zero Based Budgeting and Activity Based
Budgeting, to Value Based Management/EVA. You
can even learn about our own proprietary approach, known as
Buttonwood VP.
In the market for planning software? Learn about The Buttonwood
7 Step Approach to selecting a software provider, and the
5 Worst Mistakes you can make (and how to avoid them). Do you think
you're prepared to enter into the vendor selection process? See if you can
answer these questions. Salespeople like to lead with low licensing fees. But
what percent, on average, of the total cost do these fees represent, what are
the other costs? Did you know that for one particular vendor, it can take three
days of implementation time just to load their CD disks onto your network? Take
our Pop Quiz to find out just how prepared you really
are.
Want to know who the major Planning Software Vendors
are? We list them all here with links to their web sites, no need to Ask Jeeves
or Yahoo (unless of course, you enjoy that).
There are three primary ways in which we assist companies, and we can tell you
about them in Our Approach, and provide some case
studies in How We Help. The first we way we often
help is by working with a client team to select the right planning software
provider (and in negotiating better terms, generating savings that typically
work out to be more than our fees). The second way we typically help is in
working with a client team to develop a customized solution to better planning,
by redesigning the current planning process. This often involves redesigning
operational planning and budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and
performance measures. The third way in which we help organizations is by
implementing a packaged solution to better planning; such as performance
scorecards, rolling forecasts, activity based budgeting, zero based budgeting
and value based management. Also included in this list of packaged solutions is
our own Buttonwood VP approach.
So if you've come to this site to just to learn more about planning, in all of
its various forms and aspects, you'll soon realize that you've come to the
right place. If you've come to this site to learn more about us, we're prepared
to do that to, and welcome the opportunity to work with you.
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