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1. 1. Finance webinar series Part 5: Looking Ahead-Leveraging Financial Consolidation, Enterprise Planning

   www.xtalks.com/financewebinar5 - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/4/2008   Last Visited: 3/23/2008

   Jeff Holker, Global Director, Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management, Cognos
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   Jeff Holker, Global Director, Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management, Cognos
   
   Jeff is Global Director of The Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management. In this role he is responsible for leading a global team focused on ensuring customers are successful with their Cognos solutions by creating a community of customers, industry thought leaders and Cognos experts to share business best practices. The Innovation Center accomplishes those objectives by creating a community of like-minded individuals focused on driving a holistic performance management culture and environment within their organizations, and by providing tools like Performance Blueprints, diagnostics, benchmarks, written thought leadership and a variety of forums for idea exchange and advocacy.
   
   Prior to joining Cognos, Jeff held a number of financial management and reporting-related positions at Andersen Windows, the world's largest window and door manufacturer, including leadership of FP&A. He has deep understanding of the problems faced by today's finance executive trying to manage the performance within the enterprise while serving as a key business partner to the CEO and their team.
   
   Prior to Andersen Windows, Jeff held numerous finance and accounting positions at Honeywell, and was a member of the cost and performance management practice at Ernst & Young.
   
   Jeff has a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from Cornell University, and an MBA in Finance from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

2. 2. xtalks.com

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   Published on: 3/4/2008   Last Visited: 3/23/2008

   Jeff Holker, Global Director, Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management, Cognos
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   Jeff Holker, Global Director, Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management, Cognos
   
   Jeff is Global Director of The Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management. In this role he is responsible for leading a global team focused on ensuring customers are successful with their Cognos solutions by creating a community of customers, industry thought leaders and Cognos experts to share business best practices. The Innovation Center accomplishes those objectives by creating a community of like-minded individuals focused on driving a holistic performance management culture and environment within their organizations, and by providing tools like Performance Blueprints, diagnostics, benchmarks, written thought leadership and a variety of forums for idea exchange and advocacy.
   
   Prior to joining Cognos, Jeff held a number of financial management and reporting-related positions at Andersen Windows, the world's largest window and door manufacturer, including leadership of FP&A. He has deep understanding of the problems faced by today's finance executive trying to manage the performance within the enterprise while serving as a key business partner to the CEO and their team.
   
   Prior to Andersen Windows, Jeff held numerous finance and accounting positions at Honeywell, and was a member of the cost and performance management practice at Ernst & Young.
   
   Jeff has a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from Cornell University, and an MBA in Finance from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

3. 3. Business Intelligence center for Asia-Pacific region launched in Australia

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   Published on: 7/28/2006   Last Visited: 10/9/2006

   Cognos global innovation center director Jeff Holker said while the blueprints are formed on enterprise experience, privacy is not a concern as identifiable information is removed.
   
   "The blueprints are torn back to grassroots to protect company information or 'dirty laundry' so they end up hard templates, rather than case studies," Holker said. "Companies enjoy contributing to blueprints, because they can create a focus of attention for problem areas in their industry."
   
   He said both the innovation center, which has 1000 global members, and blueprint concepts are unique, noting access to the facility is free of charge.