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 disambiguate 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
I’m an active participant in the enterprise software community, a frequent speaker at industry events, and a published author on a multitude of subjects. As the Chief Marketing Officer of SAP, I am responsible for the development, oversight, and execution of marketing strategy across the worldwide organization. I also champion SAP’s strategy of helping organizations close the gap between strategy and execution so that they can optimize business performance. I joined SAP from its acquisition of Pilot Software where I was President and CEO.
Prior to Pilot Software, I was CEO and president of Accrue Software; and president, CEO and co-founder of NeoVista Software. Earlier in my career, I held a variety of senior roles at MasPar Computer Corporation. I completed my 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 Jonathan.Becher at Yahoo dot Com or follow me on Twitter @jbecher.
Mr. Becher, welcome to SAP. I am from the days of Comshare and EIS and Rick Crandall and “Rick, we should buy Arbor Software, eh?”
We met many years…I still have my first Balanced Scorecard book!
Cheers and again, welcom to SAP – a great, team-driven company
Tom
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Great insights and well written. I look forward to reading more.