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About This Blog
A primary goal of this blog is provide information about performance management in a vendor-neutral way.  The inspiration for the title of this blog, Manage By Walking Around, can be found in my inagural post.  Because the term performance management gets bandied around by many different people to describe many different things, in some of my earlier posts (Operational, Financial or IT and What’s In A Name) I try to disabiguate the different uses, but in reality confusion still reigns in the market.  Perhaps it’s a small consolation that continued confusion means continued reading of this blog…

About Me
Jonathan D. Becher is an active participant in the performance management community, a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and the author of multiple papers on a wide range of subjects.  As SVP/GM of Strategy Management, Jonathan Becher is responsible for championing a wide range of analytic and information worker solutions, including performance management (PM) and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC).  Becher joined SAP from its acquisition of Pilot Software where he was President and CEO.

Prior to Pilot Software, Becher was interim CEO and president of Accrue Software; and president, CEO and co-founder of NeoVista Software. Earlier in his career, he held a variety of senior roles at MasPar Computer Corporation. Becher completed his Master of Science degree in computer science from Duke University and a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from the University of Virginia.

To contact me, send email to JonBecher at Yahoo dot Com.