• Lisa Hershman talking about the nine levers for transforming to improve profitability
• The CAM-I Performance Management Maturity Framework
• Whirlpool’s application of target costing and cost reduction
• Sustainability at Sodexo North America
• Predictive business and profitability analytics

In addition to thought-provoking keynote speakers, the conference will feature two main tracks:

• Twelve leading practitioners presenting their experience in implementing the latest methodologies and analytics on Performance and Cost Management.
• A Software Showcase where leading-edge software vendors will present and demonstrate their unique applications being used today for performance and cost analytics. The Software Showcase will feature vendors who will alternate and repeat their presentations so that participants will have ample opportunity to cover these sessions.

Early Bird $895 Save $100 before February 24, 2012 (16 CPLD credits for CMA Members) Full 2 Days $995 After February 24, 2012 (16 CPLD credits for CMA Members) Day 1 only $500 Thursday, March 22, 2012 (8 CPLD credits for CMA Members) Day 2 only $500 Friday, March 23, 2012 (8 CPLD credits for CMA Members)

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Agenda (click to view)

Thursday, March 22, 2012
7:30 am – 8:30 am	Registration & Breakfast
8:30 am – 8:40 am	Opening Remarks – Day 1 Introduction Session Detail CAM-I’s and CMA Ontario’s Mission and Objectives for the Conference. An outline of Wednesday’s speaker and software sessions will be covered. Speakers: Ashok Vadgama – President, CAM-I Janet Treasure – Vice President, Professional Development Institute, CMA Ontario
8:40 am – 9:40 am	Keynote – Performance Management Maturity Framework - A Hands-On Assessment Session Detail This session covers CAM-I’s recently published breakthrough research and provides an assessment tool for participants to evaluate their own organization’s performance capability. The Performance Management Maturity Framework provides the ability for organizations to holistically assess their performance maturity and understand the most effective means to improve performance, using one consistent approach.Speakers Lauren Ayer – Senior Consultant, Grant Thornton Derek Sandison – VP Strategic Alliances, Decimal
9:40 am – 10:40 am	Advanced Costing & Profitability Analytics Session Detail Advances in computing capacity and analytic software now allow management accountants to accomplish planning/budgeting, costing and reporting activities in an integrated and highly automated fashion; in a way that we could not even imagine as recently as 10 years ago.This presentation will describe how the methods and challenges associated with activity based costing are now solved by integrating them into the budgeting and financial reporting routines. Speaker Paul Sharman – President, Focused Management Information
10:40 am – 11:00 am	Break
11:00 am – 12:00 pm	The Role of Technology in Performance Alignment Session Detail Organizations are under great pressure to not only meet regulatory compliance but to develop and use quality performance information to properly assess return on investment and improve decision making capacity. The session covers experiences in working with many organizations, both in the public and private sector, who have been challenged in delivering on their performance objectives. Finally, it will be shown how technology solutions such as dashboards and score-carding, play a key role in helping organizations visualize and “operationalize” performance. Speaker Mike Haley – President, Landmark Decisions
12:00 pm – 12:40 pm	Lunch
12:40 pm – 1:40 pm	Keynote – “Faster Cheaper Better” The Nine Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done Session Detail What if transforming your business to improve profitability was as simple as changing “the way we do things around here”? Is there a good chance that solutions are right in front of you? This session will cover the main Process Based Management principles described in the book “Faster Cheaper Better” co-authored by Michael Hammer and Lisa Hershman. The presentation will demonstrate the link to Performance Management and Performance Metrics. Speaker Lisa Hershman – Co-author, Faster, Cheaper, Better
1:40 pm – 2:40 pm	Sustainability at Sodexo: Strategic Obstacles & Successes Session Detail This session will present Sodexo’s Office of Sustainability for North American (NORAM) efforts to develop and implement a sustainability strategy while facing strict financial performance goals, greater client demand than available resources, pockets of internal political opposition, and a vastly diverse customer base. This presentation relies on first-hand experience, internal and external source documents, interviews with key company personnel, and observaations of sustainability audits and group stratgy meetings. Preliminary findings are that the organizational strcuture and performance management system are not aligned with NORAM’s sustainabiliity strategy to support smooth and successful implementation and that key data to support the business case proves difficult to access. Speaker Holly Fowler – Senior Director, Sustainability & CSR Practice, Sodexo North America
2:40 pm – 3:00 pm	Break
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Target Costing – The Whirlpool Advantage Session Detail This session will cover how Whirlpool addressed key market challenges by integrating target costing into the company’s design philosophy to create sustainable solutions. This allowed aggressive cost reduction as well driving consumer demand (e.g. energy and water usage efficiency) through innovation and value. Speaker William D. Dummer – Senior Project Manager, Target Costing, Whirlpool Corporation
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm	Networking Reception

Friday, March 23, 2012
7:30 am – 8:30 am	Breakfast
8:30 am – 8:40 am	Day 1 Summary Day 2 Introduction Session Detail A high level review of Wednesday’s sessions. An outline of Thursday’s speaker and software sessions will be covered.Speaker Srikant Sastry – Partner, Grant Thornton / Chairman of Board, CAM-I
8:40 am – 9:40 am	Keynote – Predictive Business Analytics: Forward-Looking Measures to Improve Business Performance Session Detail This session will cover IFAC’s Proposed International Good Practice Guidance on Predictive Business Analytics. Topics include key principles supporting design and implementation; designing and deploying a continuous framework; and implementation strategies, approaches and challenges.Speaker Lawrence S. Maisel – President, DecisionVu
9:40 am – 10:40 am	Why Do Some of the Best Strategies Fail? A Change Management and Multidisciplinary Approach to the Balanced Scoreboard Concept Session Detail While the art of strategic planning is universally considered a top management priority and something most leaders believe they have learned to master flawlessly, many feel a blatant need for effective and creative ways to ensure that their ambitious corporate strategies do actually materialize. This presentation proposes to largely simplify corporate strategic planning through the fail-proof and seamless insertion of a multifaceted balanced scoreboard within the process rather than alongside or outside of its boundaries. Speaker Hugues Boisvert – International CMA Chair, HEC, Montreal
10:40 am – 11:00 am	Break
11:00 am – 12:00 pm	Agile Costing Session Detail Inspired by the Agile Software Development community, lead practitioners at CAM-I have shared thoughts and best practices on designing and developing cost information systems that provide rapid, efficient, flexible, and easy to use cost information in response to specific business questions. This session will explain what Agile Software Development is, and how it can be used to develop cost information systems. We will also look closely at the relationships between cost accounting, cost management, and cost data when developing agile cost information systems.Speaker Denis Archambault – VP, Marketing & Sales, Decimal Technologies
12:00 pm – 12:40 pm	Lunch
12:40 pm – 1:40 pm	Keynote – Top Trends in Managerial Accounting Session Detail Ultimately costing principles must be converted into practical practices with supporting tools. This presentation examines how cost modeling has evolved using a Costing Maturity Framework. It will describe the trends and obstacles that have helped or delayed developments. This presentation is based on Mr. Cokins’ two books: Performance Management: Finding the Missing Pieces (to Close the Intelligence Gap); and Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics. Speaker Gary Cokins – Principal, Global Business Advisory Services, SAS
1:40 pm – 2:40 pm	Member Profitability Analytics “From Top to Shop” at AAA California Session Detail Many years of costing experience in the food industry brought a totally new approach to an old established service organization that required a new view of member profitability. This presentation discusses how obtaining this new analytical knowledge allowed better decision making in terms of pricing and service level expectations. Speaker Tom Akright – Controller, AAA California
2:40 pm – 3:00 pm	Break
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Model Your Way to Better Business Performance Session Detail Driven by information technology, the benefits of operational cost modeling have significantly improved in the last decade. Time lines for implementing models are a fraction of what they used to be. Access to electronic data, the back-bone of a model, has increased exponentially providing data and analytic information that previously didn’t exist. This presentation is based on a recently published white paper sponsored by the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) and CAM-I. Best practices, and tips on getting started will be covered in the session. Speaker John A. Miller – President, Arkonas
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm	Conference Close

About CAM-I The Consortium for Advanced Management – International (CAM-I) is a research organization of sponsoring companies and academia who work in collaboration to study and develop practical and effective management methods, tools and techniques to advance the way organizations manage costs, processes and performance. With over thirty years of collaborative research and hundreds of publications, private and public sector organizations look to CAM-I to provide solutions to current management problems and critical business issues.
CMA Ontario and CAM-I thanks conference sponsors.

Cancellation: Cancellation dates are outlined below.
After Friday, March 2, 2012 – Half refund
After Friday, March 16, 2012 – No refund
Please note cancellations before March 2, 2012 will incur a $50 administration fee.
Substitute: If you are unable to attend the Conference after you have registered, you may send a substitute at no charge – even at the last minute – just call us.
Note: Sessions and speakers are subject to change

Hotel Corporate Rate

To obtain the corporate rate of $149 + taxes, please mention that you are with Certified Management Accountants of Ontario when reserving your guest room. CMA Ontario has a corporate guest room rate at the following hotel:

The Doubletree by Hilton
Toronto Airport
(416) 244-1711

Additional Information

Chelsea Allman, Coordinator, Professional Development
Toronto: (416) 977-7741 ext. 324
Toll Free: 1-800-387-2991 ext. 324
Email: callman@cmaontario.org