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Puducherry, June 10 (UNI) Pondicherry University Vice-Chancellor (in-Charge) Prof. Anisa Basheer Khan called on Chief Minister V Narayansamy today and extended greetings on behalf of the university on his assumption as Chief Minister of the Union ...United News of India, 2 weeks ago
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While the bloggers over at Cafe Mom's the Stir find this dramatic performance "Oscar-worthy" and hilarious, I actually find it kind of sad. The last thing I want to do when my toddler is having a fit -- which thankfully doesn't happen all that often, but inevitably does every once in a while -- is record it so I can show it off later.
To be fair, the man behind the camera, who I can only assume is the little girl's dad, does a great job of follow-through, and even praises her despite the tantrum. His voice is calm and patient; not at all annoyed or even amused, just softly stern. He sounds like a great dad.
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Above, the plant on June 15th at 42" tall.
A local nurseryman has been growing several Amorphophallus titanum corms in his polyhouse for nearly a decade. His first flower opened yesterday. This plant in bloom has been a popular attraction at botanical gardens for decades. The flower brings in visitors who normally have no interest in plants, because it's odd looking, rare, huge, and stinks.
When not in bloom, the Amorphophallus grows a single leaf on a strong stem for each growing season. It sheds the leaf and sits dormant for about four months. The plant is native to western Sumatra rain forests and is cold-hardy only to 55F. This local plant is about 7 feet tall; heights of 20 feet have been recorded. A bloom-sized corm may weigh more than 100 lbs, while very mature corms may weigh more than double that.
The stem of the leaf and the cover (sepal?) of the flower have the same lichen-like spots. The petal-like, pleated spathe is a fresh lime green on the outside...
...and a meaty burgundy on the inside. The spadix is hollow.
The actual flowers occur at the base of the spadix in two rows: a row of female flowers and a row of male flowers. Each row is fertile at different times to avoid self-pollination, although the Huntington was able to pollinate one of its specimens as a self and obtain seeds.
So, did it stink? There was a musky odor, not overwhelming or particularly disgusting. The local flower reached only 48" tall, but it is still a younger plant. The record height for a flower is 10 feet 2.25 inches (3.1 meters).
A smaller, more cold hardy (to zone 6) species in the same genus is A. konjac.
To see one within a ten minute drive, without waiting in line among crowds of people was a delight and a real treat.
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Saturday, June 25, 2016
Our Local Amorphophallus Titanum
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Thursday, June 23, 2016
Echinopsis oxygona Blooms
The Echinopsis oxygona flowers lasted almost two days instead of only one. Fragrant, too. The nasty heat that did this to 'Home Run' rose...
And that wilted the foliage and darkened (but didn't toast) the Dahlia flowers...
didn't affect the Cosmos...
...or damage the Echinopsis.
The plant has its first offsets, too. The main plant doesn't have much besides glochids, but the tiny offsets have plentiful spines.
I hope it develops into an oxygona clump someday, with many flowers open at once. Won't that be a show?
Update: We saw the baby hawk this morning, along with a sibling! They seemed well. Nearby on the street were the barest remains of a kill (blood, a tuft of fur, flies). Odd how the sight of gore could make one feel optimistic.
And that wilted the foliage and darkened (but didn't toast) the Dahlia flowers...
didn't affect the Cosmos...
...or damage the Echinopsis.
The plant has its first offsets, too. The main plant doesn't have much besides glochids, but the tiny offsets have plentiful spines.
I hope it develops into an oxygona clump someday, with many flowers open at once. Won't that be a show?
Update: We saw the baby hawk this morning, along with a sibling! They seemed well. Nearby on the street were the barest remains of a kill (blood, a tuft of fur, flies). Odd how the sight of gore could make one feel optimistic.
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Wednesday Vignette
I wasn't thinking of the flowers when adding Crassula pubescens ssp. radicans as companion to Agave 'Joe Hoak', but the flower colors agree perfectly with 'Joe's foliage. An inadvertently happy accident.
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Monday, June 20, 2016
It's Summer--Time To Clean The House
Above, Magnolia grandiflora
Fierce summer heat has arrived two months early, so it's time to clean the neglected indoors. Saturday:
Sunday was even worse.
Today, Monday. Hey, it's 20 degrees cooler than Palm Springs! Wheee!
Some plants love heat, or at least don't mind it. Fuchsias are not in that group. Last week:
Just now:
Sigh. On the other hand, Echeveria cante posesses a powdery white coating that protects it from intense sun. It was unhappy in winter, content in May-Grey. I have two plants, one sending forth a flower stalk.
Echinopsis oxygona blooms happily in warm weather. These will be the first flowers since I picked up this plant for 50% off a couple of years ago. Flower buds appeared immediately after a recent repotting.
Avocado 'Reed'. Yummmm! This variety produces fruit that matures in summer, unlike our winter crop of 'Fuerte'. I repeat, Yummmm. The best tasting Avocado of them all--buttery, nutty, with a luxuriously velvety texture. It too gets a white coating like Echeveria cante, but this bloom indicates oil content, rather than being sunscreen. I repeat, Yummmm!
Some flowers brought indoors out of the desiccating sun Saturday morning with no attempt at arrangement--those left outside are brown and crispy. Picking flowers reduces stress on the plants as well. Plopped on the mantle are the last of the Sweet Peas, the very first Cosmos. Dahlias and roses. I picked one of the neighbor's Magnolia grandiflora flowers hanging over our wall. The tree is limbed up high so only by standing on the retaining wall, are the enormous flowers visible. Heavenly scent, enjoyable even ten feet away.
Bougainvilleas love heat.
Green tomatoes, green for weeks, finally turning red.
More time to spend indoors and...vacuum. Oh, did that. Laundry? All done. Dusting? Ditto. Wash the windows. Wash the kitchen cabinets. Mop the floors. Clean out closets. It's going to be a long summer. The house is going to look great.
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Sunday, June 19, 2016
Hunnemannia seeds seem to grow best from cracks in concrete.
Boris and I play ball out here several times a day.
A boy and his toy.
Where was Natasha? In the house, busy sleeping.
Boris and I play ball out here several times a day.
A boy and his toy.
Where was Natasha? In the house, busy sleeping.
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Friday, June 17, 2016
Neighborhood Activity
A neighbor moved an oak from one part of his property to a place by his driveway. This happened in early March. Of course right after he moved it we got an unexpected heat wave.
Another neighbor spent last summer calling, calling, calling the county, trying to get some brush clearance done on the county-owned drainage areas. The County promised action. It only took a year. Better late than never--we are thankful.
This was filled and refilled several times.
This area had several trash palms (Washingtonia) and a lot of dead brush. It is now mostly cleared out. You could see no soil--it was all crammed with brush. I wish the native oaks and Toyon could take over, which they could if the county would remove the Eucs and trashy ash trees.
Another area, more brush to clear. The mass of Poison Oak engulfing a Schinus molle was scary.
Coyotes live back in there. These are all non-native invasive weeds, excepting the native Poison Oak. Just because something is 50 feet tall, doesn't mean it isn't a weed. There are a couple of native oaks back there.
There is one native plant in the next photo, the Sambucus mexicana. They'd done some clearing out here, but more needed. I can hear the whine of the chain saws and the roar of the chipper going right now, as I type. Hopefully those trashy palms go, because they are a serious fire hazard. So are the Eucs and the Schinus.
Since this is sort of a foliage post, how about some Agaves, Aloes, and a Senecio, creating a soft mix of greens and blue-greens under overcast sky.
Or Begonia luxurians, recently planted, and growing:
Or a new plant yet another neighbor kindly gave me, Pyrrosia lingua. Really pretty epiphytic fern that climbs trees and rocks in Japan, China, and southeast Asia. I'm concerned the light will not be sufficient here--but thought I'd give it a try. It would make a beautiful green carpet in that unfortunate corner, if little light is enough light. Might have to move it.
Same kindly neighbor gave me a 'Diamond Dust' Euphorbia. What wonderful neighbors! I have a spot for it, too. It likes heat and it doesn't reseed. Whee!!!
Speaking of new plants, I did a stupid thing a month or two back and bought one of those tiny tiny packaged rooted Clematis stems you see at the big box stores--it was 75% off. I looked though all the packages and found one that contained a plant still alive.
These are so tiny it is very difficult to grow them into viable plants, (at least for me) and I should have left it to die, but...well...you know how it is. So far it's growing mostly because of our extended May-Grey/June-Gloom, but I'll have to baby it through the summer without error and even then...survival will be iffy. Misguided compassion, I guess. At this moment, though...it looks so happy.
Not so happy, the keening of a fledgling Hawk(?) that was very difficult to photograph. The past couple of days it has been keening and chirping for its parents, judging by the plaintive sound. It was in one of the neighbor's wretched Eucs yesterday for a couple of hours. It's young(?) and hungry(?) and alone(?). It has been wrenching to listen to its cries. I dearly hope it finds something to eat, that it is strong enough to survive, but there's nothing I can do to help.
So many little things, minor things, trivial things go on in a garden. Every garden has its own drama, life and death, joy, tragedy, struggle, beauty, pain, the kaleidoscope of the here and now.
Update 6/18: a neighbor reports seeing the youngster being fed tidbits by Mom & Dad. Hope you make it, Junior!
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Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Bloom Day June 2016
Anigozanthos 'Velvet Gold' above. Not my garden, but jeezz-loo-eezz, how can I resist posting it? The gorgeous yellow, the rust-red stems, the green interior, the fuzz...since Bloom Day is a Wednesday, we'll call the above a Wednesday Vignette.
Salvia 'Blue Hill' goes on blooming, and will until Halloween.
Another flush of flowers from the Leucospermum--okay, just three flowers, but they're still awesome. The lighter green foliage is all new growth. I'm going to have to move the 'Ivory Curls' Agave before it is engulfed.
Dudleya has benefited from the extended May-Grey June-Gloom and burst forth with frosty yellow-green flowers. Unexpected from--honestly--an ugly plant.
I've read if drainage is sharp, Dudleya will take summer water and look better. I'm going to try it this year. This plant, scruffy now, looks even worse in August.
Big cluster of flowers from Echeveria 'Misty Violet'
Dwarf Hydrangea snuggling up with Fuchsias and Begonias. The red-foliaged 'Queen Victoria' Lobelia in front has flower buds. A splash of water has become a daily ritual. I want to see the flowers!
I've tried several times for a photo to get Cistanthe flowers to drape gracefully over neighbor Agave parryi truncata; this year it finally happened on its own. An unexpected kind of pink and blue.
Dahlia 'Arabian Nights' is having its best year ever. I know not why.
A little drizzle coated it with sparkle.
Hemerocallis 'Gold District'. It doesn't repeat bloom, but it puts on a glowing show for that one moment in June.
The combo of orange Salvia with Agastache 'Blue Fortune' works for me.
Another orange/lavender blue combo, Big box cheapo Dahlia and a blur of Geranium 'Rozanne' behind it.
Ethereal old day lily, the pinkest.
Ever-reliable 'Molineux'
Pink and blue again, the Cistanthe with a background of Agave marmorata this time.
A fair bloom day to you all.
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I dislike the talk of all issues like this. In my opinion if you are that bothered by what someone else thinks or calls some thing then you need to get your priorities in order.
(Mr. Nigel Farage, this post is not directed at you at all. Just stating an opinion. Not that i would care if anyone got offended, but just thought i should make my intent clear before someone calls me out on insulting you)
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Britons did the right thing to leave EU. The EU can't decide the British policy what they can and can't do . . .
The Scotland and Gibraltar have the right to quit from the UK under the spirit of democracy. You see my beloved country that has moved so far from this promising start to its democracy, and the unity, ethics and selfless leadership that our founding father stood for. The majority of our people still do not have decent housing, legal electricity connections, running water, or a good standard of healthcare and education, yet our current leadership continues on a path of widespread corruption, wastefulness and mismanagement.
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The peoples of State of Sabah (previously known as British North Borneo) and Kingdom of Sarawak and Brunei, as former British colonial subjects, first appealed to the United Nations by the Memorandum dated 9th September 1962 signed by Sarawak United Peoples Party (SUPP), United National Pasok Momogun Party (UNPMP) and Brunei Peoples Party (BPP) whereby it was recommended by the Sub Committee of the Committee on Petitions The Request For Hearing Contained In This Communication Be Granted (A/AC,109/PET.46) This request however remained UNADDRESSED by the UNITED NATIONS & UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN owing to the intervention of historic events which recast the political course of Kingdom of Sarawak, State of Sabah and Nation of Brunei, for the last 51 years. Whereas Nation of Brunei attained independence on 1st January 1984, State of Sabah and Kingdom of Sarawak have remained under change of status stature without national independence up to today; documented as such in the United Nations Trusteeship Agreement listed by the General Assembly as Non-Self-Governing Territories. . . So I do understand why Scotland make such decision to leave the Unification Kingdom because self determination is a essential for democracy.
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jjr 7 years, 6 months ago
This is a thank you ... to people in my neighborhood who shovel my sidewalk!!!! I am lucky!!!! On snow days ...it has been my brother, Mike or my neighbors on either side of my house, Phil of Buzz, who shovel the walk.
pooter 7 years, 6 months ago
Why shovel it? As of 8:45 pm it is still snowing. The 24 hour clock hasn't even started yet.*
LA_Ex 7 years, 6 months ago
pooter, I shovel it as a courtesy to all the school kids and other people that use it. I kinda figured the reason was obvious.
Chris Ogle 7 years, 6 months ago
All I want for Christmas is a new sidewalk.
SayWhat 7 years, 6 months ago
My neighborhood is great about clearing our walks and helping elderly neighbors with theirs. There is a house that a JoCo parent bought his kid who lives there with 3 of his buddies. Poor guys are busy with college and apparently can't afford a snow shovel. Probably have bad backs and allergies to sweating. Should we establish a fund to help such underprivileged youth with clearing their sidewalks?
hujiko 7 years, 6 months ago
Don't get me started on JoCo
yellowhouse 7 years, 6 months ago
Winter the Yellow House way.....http://news.larryville.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=52606
OhHai 7 years, 6 months ago
Yeah I did and then the scraper came by and covered it again. Not doing it a second time. Fine me.
WHY 7 years, 6 months ago
I don't walk on it so I don't clear it. If you want to walk on it you clear it. The benefit should come with the burden.
terrapin2 7 years, 6 months ago
Wow- People are so full of sweetness and light. It may be zero, but yes people still use the sidewalks. "Only in Lawrence?" really? It's called dressing for the conditions. I'm pretty sure the people that walk to work or ride their bike or take the bus still have to do that even in cold weather. Unless when it snows the city gives these people a car I'm pretty sure they still have to walk. They also said if the plows cover your walk or you are sick/elderly/out of town, they will not fine you. If you have a sidewalk and you are in good health, you have no excuse. "I don't use it so I'm not doing it" is just a bad attitude. Happy freakin' holidays to you. I'm sure there are services in this town that you use and others don't, yet we still have to pay for them. We got no benefit from clearing 4-5 neighbors/businesses walks when we didn't have to, but we did it anyway. It's called being a citizen of a community. I'm pretty sure the guy I saw walking to the bus this morning and the father walking to pick up his kids from school appreciated it.
Alison Roberts 7 years, 6 months ago
Yes I did... in fact, I shoveled the whole walkway around my apt buidling. Residents of building OO at Aberdeen South, you're welcome. :)
Leslie Swearingen 7 years, 6 months ago
terrapin2 thank you! People go out and walk in all conditions. My daughter walked to school and never missed a day because of colds or illness while her driven friends were falling by the wayside. (pun intended) What do people think happens to the human foot or leg when it walks though snow. Are there alien parasites waiting for a host? Think of how much money people pay to go to Vail, Colorado and like places to wallow in snow. You can do it here for free. I have this suggestion. Put padded barriers at the bottom of 12th and 13th streets around Tennessee when it really, really snows, and let everyone sled down. Good idea, what? Idle question, is there an Terrapin One?
disgustedagain 7 years, 6 months ago
"They also said if the plows cover your walk or you are sick/elderly/out of town, they will not fine you. If you have a sidewalk and you are in good health, you have no excuse. " Maybe so, but you probably will have to go to court to set aside an incorrect fine and that will cost how much in court costs??? Fines are a bad idea. I always shovel my sidewalk, but often my neighbors do not. I would never, however, presume to make judgments when they do not. I do not know their circumstances or reasons. Yes, lazy college students are a drag. So are unaffordable fines during a terrible recession.
maxcrabb 7 years, 6 months ago
I don't have a sidewalk!(And Ritzmans came and cleared the driveway)
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The relevance of marketing to an organization depends on planning and performance measured against it. In writing about marketing management I have observed the marketing mayhem that can occur but also have noted that organizations that take marketing performance management seriously are in better position to assess their efforts in relation to goals and outcomes. I have a little experience in having been a CMO and VP Marketing in my career and know how frantic it can be to managing marketing. Taking it seriously requires more effective technology than spreadsheets and presentations; we recommend using a dedicated application that supports management of both marketing operations and processes that contribute to optimal performance.
Allocadia is a vendor of such software. Its core principles can help every marketing executive, CMO or not, engage with and lead marketing effectively. Its founders brought passion to the pursuit of marketing excellence that inspired the organization to advance performance management in this discipline. In 2014 our firm recognized its purpose and approach with a Ventana Research Technology Innovation Award. Its software enables marketing departments to take a more methodical approach that manages operations in line with the budget and plan and measures progress toward goals.
Allocadia's products help organizations define the marketing budget and plan how to use it, and then track actuals to the budget and link it to strategy and goals. In recent releases Allocadia has advanced its applications in planning and analytics to derive further insights from marketing operations and performance. Its impact modeler helps users see how plans will contribute to revenue goals. In the past year the company has increased flexibility in modeling input and currencies and enables more granular time intervals for months and quarters. For example, marketing professionals can model complexities in accounting of the budget through purchase orders that might be split across time periods and projects. Allocadia also has made the applications easy to integrate with project management tools such as that from Workfront in which projects created within Allocadia are linked to the budget and plan.
Allocadia has an aggressive product schedule that releases new advances almost monthly; this helps marketers incrementally improve their flexibility. It is continuing to advance its visualization capabilities while simplifying presentation of data so marketers can understand and act on insights. Under the covers Allocadia ensures that analytics applied to the model can be linked to ongoing activities and projects. This approach to analytics empowers marketing organizations to directly link strategy, goals, budgets and plans to resources. I know from engagements with marketing leaders that many are unable to unify their operations in such a manner and still use ad hoc approaches. Allocadia is continuing to improve its modeling so it can fully allocate spend and results from top to bottom and also from the bottom up to represent marketing activities and their attributed results.
Marketing organizations can get started with Allocadia by focusing on the marketing planning process. I recently articulated the relevance of marketing planning in a perspective that outlines best practices and steps forward. By aligning the budget to goals and projects, marketing teams can work collaboratively to optimize the actual spend. This is something that many need to do: Our benchmark research into marketing planning finds that only 10 percent of organizations are able to accurately measure the plan's impact. I would like to see Allocadia add more workflow, approval and collaboration in the context of budgeting and planning to eliminate the painful inefficiencies of management by email, spreadsheets and presentations. Allocadia must also further deepen its unique support for marketing and approach to projects and spend so that it is not easily compared to planning and budgeting tools that are deployed by finance. This will not be easy as many of them can provide fairly sophisticated modeling, analytics and presentation for use across business today. Ensuring Allocadia can further its methodical approach to marketing performance management should be music to the ears of finance departments and corporate executives looking for visibility to ensure that the organization derives full value from the overall marketing spend but also the investment into people and projects. In terms of Allocadia products it offers simple pricing and easy, cost-effective deployment of its applications through subscription and software as a service approach to cloud computing.
After assessing how organizations use Allocadia's products, in 2015 we awarded Juniper Networks the Ventana Research Leadership Award in marketing excellence for its work in utilizing Allocadia to develop and apply metrics to manage its spend in the budget to goals. Marketing organizations that do not use a dedicated application risk both their success and the careers of those who work there; everyone should be able to see the results of their efforts and work as a team to achieve their goals. Used properly Allocadia helps enable a sense of accomplishment and pride in both management and operations. There are many in the industry who like to talk about what marketing needs to do, but that have not experienced it or have advice marketing executives like I have in the last 15 years to understand what specifically needs to be done to reduce the mayhem and master marketing successfully. If you have not seen marketing performance management at work, I recommend evaluating Allocadia in the context of establishing inspiration and teamwork in your marketing efforts to achieve the outcomes you and your organization deserve.
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Workiva offers Wdesk, a cloud-based productivity application for handling composite documents. I use the term "composite document" to refer to those in which text is created and edited collaboratively by multiple contributors and which incorporates tabular and numerical data from multiple sources in a controlled process. Composite documents often have formats defined by law, regulation or contract and must be created at periodic intervals. To comply with the requirement by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that companies "tag" their financial filings using eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), many companies acquired software to automate the creation and tagging of these composite documents.
Workiva began as WebFilings and initially offered software to streamline the SEC document submission process. In 2013 it released Wdesk to address the larger market for composite document creation. The software has uses beyond SEC filings. They include a variety of documents or presentations for external or internal purposes that corporations routinely produce, including board presentations, management reports, audit management, disclosure documents and other regulatory or compliance filings. Using such software, companies (and especially finance departments) can cut preparation time, complete documents sooner and substantially reduce errors in them.
Software products for handling composite documents like Wdesk have capabilities similar to those of document management applications except that they are designed to be easily used by business people with limited or no involvement by technical specialists and at much lower cost of ownership. This is especially true for cloud-based software. As is the case in using document management software, the text portion of the composite document is produced and reviewed by many people in multiple departments for various purposes in a defined workflow that includes approvals. To facilitate reviews, Wdesk enables approvers to read, comment on and accept a document or any component of it on a mobile device. In the process of creating the document multiple versions are created and the software ensures that people work only with the current version. Permissions for creating, editing and approving the document can be granular (such as limited to a specific paragraph or table or even a single data point). Especially for internal documents (such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act attestations) Wdesk can connect substantiating documents directly to specific parts of a document.
The sections and basic form of a composite document may be highly structured, in which case the software automatically maintains this structure and all formatting. The format includes the order of the sections, the section headings, specific wording in boilerplate sections, paragraph styles and even the typeface, to name the most common requirements. If the document is a periodic filing, it must be consistent from one period to the next, keeping the format and structure of each individual section exactly the same. Wdesk also ensures that text and numbers that are reused across multiple documents and presentations are consistent.
In addition to consistency, another major advantage of using Wdesk to automate the document creation process is that it can significantly reduce the incidence of errors while reducing the time devoted to checking the document for them. For example, numbers referenced in the commentary must agree with those in the tables. These numbers often change over the course of the drafting period, sometimes frequently and on occasion late in the process when deadlines are short. A composite document application will always contain the most accurate and up-to-date numbers. This is important because in our benchmark research on the financial close research three out of five participants said that the consistency and quality of data in company reports is a significant or very significant problem.
As the numbers (such as financial and operational results) referenced in a table change, the numbers in the narrative associated with those numbers, as well as any associated percentage, change citations. For example, in the statement "advertising expense was $X, up Y%," the numbers X and Y will always be in agreement with each other and any table containing them. Automation can also help because some types of regulatory documents and filings have particular requirements that must be enforced. For example, when financial data is presented in a shortened form (in thousands or millions of currency units, for example), the rounding often must adhere to a specific convention.
Using a software application designed to automate and support the process of creating filing documents can reduce the amount of time and effort necessary to produce the final result. It does so by establishing a repository of record for the text and data, automating the compilation of the document including the tabular data and individual text sections, using workflow to manage the process, and applying controls and audit features.
Using such software enables corporations to achieve substantially greater efficiency as well as tighter and more consistent control over this process. Process management capabilities can cut the administrative workload for people who "own" the filing document and reduce the possibility of delayed handoffs and missed deadlines. Document management features enable administrators to track the progress of the individual components, automate reminders to individuals as deadlines approach and generate alerts if they miss start or completion times. In contrast, when regulatory filings and similar composite documents are assembled using personal productivity software and orchestrated through email attachments and notifications, the process needlessly occupies the time and attention of highly trained, well-compensated people who have to spend hours performing dull, repetitive tasks that require their skills. Automation on the other hand leaves only the essential work to be done, allowing expert individuals to focus only on that and have more time to concentrate on their real jobs.
Using software to automate and control the creation of composite documents for external or internal users can substantially cut the risks of errors and missed deadlines. This software can be used broadly to address multiple regulatory and legal requirements in the finance, legal, internal audit and other departments. I recommend that companies – especially their finance and legal departments – that create composite documents automate their production and investigate whether Wdesk will address their requirements.
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As global business increases competitive pressures, marketing departments face new challenges. They must anticipate and respond to frequently changing customer preferences and produce effective programs and campaigns to attract them. In the online world where customers can jump instantly from one company to another, Marketing must develop new ways to catch and hold their attention. Doing this well requires systematic, flexible planning that begins with the CMO and engages the entire department to utilize the full portfolio of resources and act as one to serve their mission.
In this fast-changing environment, Marketing itself must modernize with the times, adjusting its efforts to shifts in markets and keeping up with the accelerating pace of change. Aligning the department's activities with strategic corporate goals is more than ever an essential activity for Marketing, and to do that requires planning. And marketing planning is a required part of what every CMO should have established in what is called marketing performance management that I have recently discussed. However, our research finds that many marketers aren't satisfied with their department's ability to do effective planning. Fewer than half (48%) of marketing organizations participating in our recently completed benchmark research on next-generation business planning said they are satisfied with their organization's current process of creating marketing plans. More than 40 percent said the marketing planning process is too slow, has too few skilled resources and lacks readily available data; more than one in three (36%) said their technology is inadequate. In addition the frequency in how often organizations create, review and revise their marketing plans is in half of organizations done annually or quarterly. Clearly not as frequently as they should be reviewed and revised to adapt to changing requirements. Overall only 15 percent of research participants said they manage their marketing planning process very well.
Executive management expects Marketing's allocations of budget and people to align with the organization's strategic goals and correlate directly to sales and revenue results, but it can be a challenge to connect marketing spend to planning, execution and outcomes. A major reason is that marketing business planning requires data to enable comparisons between actual spending and the budget and results. Many organizations lack complete information about their marketing and sales environments and activities; without it, developing plans and setting objectives is difficult. For example, most marketing plans can't compare actual spend information to the budget without time-consuming manual effort.
A further complication is what is goes into plans. One-third of our research participants reported that the accuracy of their plans depends on having accurate and timely data from other parts of the organization. Thus effective marketing organizations must integrate data about sales, customers, operations, suppliers and accounting to develop a complete picture of activities. Only with such a picture can the organization improve the accuracy of the marketing plan. In addition, having data on marketing activities is essential to determine how fully goals have been achieved.
To achieve this level of integration, organizations should build a single repository for all marketing-related information. Doing so will enable them to use analytics to measure the results of marketing efforts and track alignment between spending and execution. Such an information repository can help marketers accelerate the review process, which most departments need to do. According to our benchmark research, more than one-third (36%) of marketing organizations currently take 10 days or longer to review marketing spend vs. budgeted amounts, and nearly three-fourths (73%) take at least seven days. To manage strategy in today's business environment, this is too long.
Furthermore, rather than being done once and remaining untouched thereafter, planning should be a continuous process designed to manage marketing performance to achieve objectives. More than half (53%) of organizations in our research create a marketing plan annually or semiannually. Fewer than that review it quarterly (28%) or revise it quarterly (34%). In our view, greater frequency improves effectiveness in management. Organizations that perform these activities less often are likely to struggle in aligning marketing spend to the budget.
Marketing should be able to update plans when changes necessitate it, but the research finds that organizations have difficulty in developing such flexibility. When major changes take place from the original plan, the largest percentage (34%) do a shorter revised plan while only one in five (22%) do a complete revision. In large measure that's because most organizations use inadequate technology tools, primarily spreadsheets, for planning. For example, in linking their plan to the budget, 38 percent consolidate individual spreadsheets manually, and one-fourth (24%) each link them on the server or paste information from systems and spreadsheets into other systems and spreadsheets. Two in five (39%) use a spreadsheet by itself for marketing planning, and one-fourth (25%) use spreadsheets in conjunction with another application. Yet among those that use spreadsheets almost half (42%) admitted that those tools make it difficult to manage the marketing planning process. To determine the impact of the budget on marketing and business, most organizations copy and paste data into spreadsheets and manually update it. Very few (5%) use a dedicated business planning application.
To develop flexible, accurate marketing plans is a complex challenge that requires focusing on all aspects of planning: people, process, information and technology. It is a challenge well worth taking on. Toward that end we offer the following five suggestions for practices that if instituted can provide an advantage over competitors.
First, Marketing should align plans to business objectives – and keep them aligned. Marketing should have the ability to use what-if scenarios to determine investment priorities and be able to conduct collaboration to establish and maintain Marketing's alignment with other functions. To perform what-if requires ability to conduct trade-off analysis and scenario planning are key tools for discovering the best opportunities and deciding where to shift investment priorities if necessary. Yet when trying to assess potential trade-offs, fewer than one-third (30%) of organizations said they have all or most of the numbers needed to measure their impacts on the plan's alignment to strategy. This will require the adoption of purpose-built technology that supports marketing planning processes and users and can measure how well current marketing investments optimize spending.
Second, in today's fierce competition for customers and market share, marketing groups must be able to judge immediately the effectiveness of their spending and its impact on sales and business results. In our research just 10 percent of organizations said they can accurately measure their marketing plan's effect on the rest of the company; the largest percentage (45%) have only a general idea of the impact.
Third, Marketing should plan routinely. Groups that do this are more able to track alignment to goals than those plan sporadically. Frequent planning can ensure that necessary changes are made promptly. However, doing this requires appropriate processes and tools that most organizations don't have. Marketing leaders must take responsibility for the accuracy of their plans, but our research shows that many cannot assure this. Only 37 percent said their marketing plans are accurate or very accurate; most (48%) are only somewhat accurate. In addition only a slight majority (56%) measure the accuracy of their plans. Even fewer (10%) can accurately measure their plan's impact on the rest of the company.
Fourth, managing marketing planning effectively requires applications that support these efforts. It's never too soon to modernize marketing practices and improve the department's contribution to the company's competitiveness. Implementing a dedicated tool for marketing planning can alleviate a number of issues, such as those mentioned above, that hinder productivity and diminish the department's importance to the business. An effective tool can enable the organization to move beyond sporadic, partial reviews and manual tasks that waste time, and use that time for core functions that add value to the business.
Finally, we urge marketing leaders to take steps to achieve excellence in their organizations. They should assess current marketing performance and its alignment to corporate objectives; review the portfolio of assets and resources that are managed by the CMO or head of marketing. Identify areas where small improvement can have a large impact, and select systems that can help realize the improvements. Use the new systems to track progress toward objectives. Focus on efforts that can optimize spending to reach revenue goals. Review planning to adjust marketing activities to reach performance goals.
If marketing planning is taken seriously as a process and has a dedicated application to support, the CMO and marketing department can improve outcomes from its budget and resources and add value to the enterprise and do what I have written and master the marketing mayhem in a meaningful manner.
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