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Adrian van der Merwe

MD of 8th Man Consulting.

Adrian van der Merwe is founder and MD of 8th Man Consulting. He is an expert in enterprise performance management systems and has six years' experience in the accounting and finance industry, and over seven years of consulting experience. Prior to 8th Man Consulting, he had various roles from lead design on project initiations, to project management as an engagement manager for Paragon Consulting in the UK. He has led and managed both the technical and process design phases, in addition to development of several group reporting systems at a number of Danish and FTSE-100 companies. Van der Merwe worked as a consultant with the World Class Finance team for Atos Origin (formerly KPMG Consulting) in London. During his time at Atos Origin, he was the technical lead for the planning, development and implementation of business analysis, management reporting and planning solutions, with particular emphasis on Hyperion Essbase and Comshare MPC. He was educated in SA at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he gained a Bachelor of Commerce in financial accounting and accounting information systems.

Articles

3:50
Enterprise
Dec 2, 2010

Beware of free dashboards

There are many limitations to using free dashboards, and it can be prone to error too.

3:40

Expert advice

How to partner with the right consultant for your business.

3:40

Acknowledging EPM

Three steps for implementing enterprise performance management systems.

3:30

From partner to consultancy

Examining the importance of partners, deadlines and training in the remaining five steps to BPM success.

3:40

10 steps to BPM success

The focus of business performance management has changed from justifying its acquisition to ensuring it works.

4:20

Two deadly sins of EPM

Companies spend too much and derive too little benefit from the solutions they buy.

4:00
Enterprise
Jun 4, 2009

From dashboard to optimisation

Employees can determine key performance indicators and progress towards targets.

4:00

Link strategy, operations with EPM

Enterprise performance management can bridge the disconnect between strategy and operations.

3:50
Computing
Apr 6, 2009

Ignore EPM and pay the price

EPM smoothes and resolves budgeting and forecasting.

3:50

Consolidate cautiously

Financial consolidation is one of the applications that make up enterprise performance management.

3:50
Human capital
Feb 24, 2009

The next frontier for EPM

Human capital must be made part of the enterprise performance management suite.

4:10

Even smaller companies need EPM

Enterprise performance management provides a different way of looking at the corporate business life cycle.