Industry Thought Leaders Join Cognos Innovation Center Advisory Board

  
    
  
  
    
      Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business 
      intelligence and performance 
      management solutions, today announced six new appointments to the 
      advisory board of the Cognos Innovation Center™ 
      for Performance Management.
    
    
      The Cognos Innovation Center was established in June 2004 to advance the 
      understanding of proven performance management best-practices and 
      enabling technologies. Staffed globally by experts in planning, business 
      intelligence, management processes, and technology, the Innovation 
      Center partners with more than 2000 Cognos customers, academics, 
      partners, industry leaders, and others who want to accelerate adoption, 
      reduce risk, and maximize the impact of technology-enabled performance 
      management practices and business intelligence competencies.
    
    
      The following industry leaders join an esteemed group of existing 
      advisors to form a team of visionaries that will guide Cognos and extend 
      the resources available for customers to advance state-of-the-art 
      Performance Management implementations:
    
    
      
        Scott W. Sognefest: Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP: Scott 
        Sognefest is a principal with Deloitte Consulting’s 
        Information Dynamics practice and national leader of the Business 
        Intelligence and Data Warehousing service offering. He has extensive 
        experience delivering complex global solutions focused on all aspects 
        of business intelligence, data warehousing, performance measurement, 
        master data management and business case development for enterprise 
        information management programs.
      
      
        Frank E. Borgsmiller, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP: Frank 
        Borgsmiller serves as the National Operations Leader for Deloitte’s 
        Financial Management Services Practice and as the Regional Practice 
        Leader for Mid America. His extensive experience serving clients 
        includes functional Finance areas such as: Finance strategy and 
        visioning, business process improvement for core processes such as 
        planning, budgeting and forecasting, and enterprise performance 
        management. In addition, Frank has helped develop and lead the firm’s 
        national training programs on a variety of financial topics.
      
      
        Roland Mosimann, CEO and Co-founder of Business Intelligence 
        International: Roland is an industry veteran who has helped drive 
        leadership initiatives around BI and performance management since 
        1995. In 2004 he drove the launch of the Aline™ 
        platform for on-demand Governance, Risk and Compliance. He co-authored The 
        Multidimensional Manager - 24 Ways to Impact Your Bottom Line in 90 
        Days and The Multidimensional Organization: How to Deliver the 
        24 Ways. Demand led to the printing of more than 400,000 copies 
        and these books remain in use by organizations worldwide today. He 
        recently co-authored The 
        Performance Manager: Proven 
        Strategies for Turning Information into Higher Business Performance, 
        which is available on Amazon.com.
      
      
        Patrick Mosimann, Founding and Joint Managing Director of PMSI 
        Consulting: Patrick is a seasoned performance management 
        practitioner with extensive experience in developing business-led 
        solutions that support decision makers. He has led several unique 
        client engagements across consumer goods, manufacturing, retail and 
        services industry sectors. He recently co-authored The 
        Performance Manager: Proven 
        Strategies for Turning Information into Higher Business Performance, 
        which is available on Amazon.com.
      
      
        Brett Knowles, Founding Partner and President, Performance 
        Measurement and Management: A thought leader in the performance 
        measurement space for more than 20 years, Brett co-developed the first 
        balanced scorecard software package, has helped over 1,000 
        organizations on their scorecard journeys and has developed over 2,000 
        scorecards. His leadership has helped three organizations that were 
        later honored by being named by Drs. Kaplan and Norton to the Balanced 
        Scorecard Hall of Fame.
      
      
        Lawrence Maisel, Co-founding Partner of DecisionVu: A seasoned 
        business executive who has successfully demonstrated abilities to 
        provide leadership in Strategy and Financial Management, and 
        Information Technology. He has numerous experiences in Financial 
        Services, Insurance, Communications and Media, Pharmaceuticals, and 
        Consumer Products industries where he has developed business 
        strategies, managed and improved business performance, implemented 
        business systems, and designed solutions to increase operating 
        performance and shareholder value. Larry co-created with Drs. Kaplan 
        and Norton, the Balanced Scorecard, co-authored with Drs. Kaplan and 
        Cooper “Implementing Activity-Based Cost 
        Management”. He is an Adjunct Professor at 
        Columbia University's Graduate Business School where he teaches 
        Strategy Management.
      
    
    
      “The Cognos Innovation Center advisory board 
      represents some of the most innovative and respected minds in the 
      performance management industry,” said Dave 
      Laverty, senior vice-president and chief marketing officer, Cognos. “As 
      we continue to develop and provide visionary solutions, the Cognos 
      Innovation Center and our esteemed advisors serve as a valuable resource 
      by sharing proven best-practices with customers as they embark on their 
      respective performance management journeys. The net result helps 
      customers improve organizational effectiveness, streamline 
      decision-making and gain competitive advantage.”
    
    
      For further information on the Cognos Innovation Center visit: http://www.cognos.com/innovationcenter/
    
    
      About Cognos:
    
    
      Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and performance 
      management solutions, provides world-class enterprise planning and BI 
      software and services to help companies plan, understand and manage 
      financial and operational performance.
    
    
      Cognos brings together technology, analytical applications, best 
      practices, and a broad network of partners to give customers a complete 
      performance system. The Cognos performance system is an open and 
      adaptive solution that leverages an organization’s 
      ERP, packaged applications, and database investments. It gives customers 
      the ability to answer the questions -- How are we doing? Why are we on 
      or off track? What should we do about it? – 
      and enables them to understand and monitor current performance while 
      planning future business strategies.
    
    
      Cognos serves more than 23,000 customers in more than 135 countries, and 
      its top 100 enterprise customers consistently outperform market indexes. 
      Cognos performance management solutions and services are also available 
      from more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers. For more 
      information, visit the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com.
    
    
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