Webinars
Upcoming Webinars
March 8, 2012 - Using the Malcolm Baldrige Criteria for Evaluating Initiatives
Join us on March 8, at 2:00-2:30 EST to learn more about the
nation's highest Presidential honor for performance excellence. The criteria for
performance provides a framework for improvement that has been deployed in some
of America's best run companies and organizations.
Learn how BudgetPak mapped against that criteria, and how RISD used this
criteria to assess a proposed project to improve their budget process.
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Past Webinars
January 24, 2012 - New Year’s Resolution: a Better Budgeting Process
XLerant reveals the results of a national survey and the implications for redesigning the budget process in 2012.
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October 27, 2011 - 15 Things You Can't Do with Excel for Budgeting
Learn about what you’ve been missing with Excel budgeting and what you should be demanding from any budget system.
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September 27, 2011 - EDU Panel Discussion: The New Normal in Higher Ed
Hear how leading Colleges and Universities are managing the new normal of decreasing revenue, increasing costs, and unprecedented levels of scrutiny on the Budget.
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August 30, 2011 - An Overview of XLerant's BudgetPak
This webinar will present the 8 key issues our clients faced before partnering with XLerant and how BudgetPak addressed those challenges.
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June 28, 2011 - 15 Things You Can't Do with Excel for Budgeting
Learn about what you’ve been missing with Excel budgeting and what you should be demanding from any budget system.
May 2011 - Demo of XLerant's BudgetPak
This webinar features 8 key issues that many organizations struggle with during their budget process, and specific ways to overcome them. The video has a table of contents to make it easy to pinpoint areas of specific interest. Please feel free to share it with your friends and colleagues.
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Drew University: Self Service Budgeting
One area that Drew University has gained notoriety for is for developing "self service budgeting". By generating more active engagement with their department heads in the budget process, Drew has increased accountability and transparency; while instilling a greater sense of fiscal discipline throughout the college. This video focuses on the key changes the finance team made to lead this important effort.
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April 5, 2011 - Building a Culture of Budget Accountability: A Panel Discussion
A distinguished panel of CFOs from leading organizations will discuss how they transformed budgeting into a valued added process and built a culture of budget accountability. They’ll share their insights, experience and results in what promises to be a very informative hour.
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March 17, 2011 - Overcoming the Roadblocks to a Culture of Budget Accountability
This webinar will focus on the roadblocks that organizations face in creating a culture of budget accountability, and more importantly, how to overcome them.
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January 20, 2011 - Managing the Budget Process: Career Maker or Career Breaker?
If you transform the budget process from an error prone, number crunching, exercise to one that adds real value to the organization, you'll be a hero. That's what this webinar is all about.
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December 16, 2010 - The New Normal: 5 New Mega Trends that will Destroy Your Budgeting Process
In the world of diminishing resources there are 5 trends that organizations must be prepared for.
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November 18, 2010 - The Budget should be a numerical expression of the strategic plan - in your dreams
You can drive a truck between most organization's strategic plan and their budget. Why is that? And what can you do to integrate strategic planning and budgeting?
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October 14, 2010 - Improving communications in your next budget cycle
Budgeting is as much a communication exercise as it is a financial one -- but in the frenzy of the process, good communication is the first casualty. It doesn't have to be that way.
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