The EPM Show: All Things Enterprise Performance Management

Steve Piotraczk has had a storied career in the ERP and EPM world, now serving as the Chief Revenue Officer at Argano. He joins hosts Blake Bozarth & Chad Pyke to talk about what's happening in the mid-market and drops some career nuggets along the way. In this episode, you'll learn:

→ How scalability and affordability have changed the game in the mid-market

→ The biggest challenge companies are facing that prevent them from realizing transformation

→ Why courage matters in your career

→ Why you should take the soft skills training that you think is a waste of time

→ The necessity of being able to sell and realizing you're still in sales even if you're not in Sales

→ The chasm between senior talent and early career professionals and what you can do about it

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Pigment is a platform that is making waves and gaining major traction in the Planning & EPM space. Julien Lesaicherre, Head of Business at Pigment, joins hosts Blake Bozarth & Chad Pyke to talk about what Pigment is doing differently and what he sees as the biggest opportunities to serve companies and modelers better. In this episode, you'll learn:

→ What Sparsity is all about and why it gives modelers nightmares (plus, how Pigment is addressing this)

→ Why "Pull" is so much better than "Push" for gaining adoption of your planning tool

→ How Pigment is advancing its vision that anyone can be a modeler

→ What Total Cost of Ownership means and why Pigment indexes on model agility to help organizations reduce complexity and costs maintaining models

→ Why Pigment is one of the only platforms that publishes its roadmap

Visit all the pertinent links + find out how much Anaplan professionals are getting paid ($$$): https://linktr.ee/cothryve

Jake Sachs, Solution Architect at Roseburg Forest Products and Mir Borishkevich, our guest co-host, join Chad Pyke for our first session of our new “Let’s Get Technical” series focused on EPM use cases and best practices.

In this episode you’ll learn:

→ How Roseburg used a cost to serve model to increase profitability transparency for their 30K+ SKUs in a cyclical commodities market

→ How Jake led this new model build from scratch with entirely new processes

→ What it looks like to partner with IT and manage change when launching new models

This show is powered by CoThryve – the firm that helps EPM professionals grow their career.

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Sam Kubek of Spaulding Ridge joins Chad Pyke to talk about how Artificial Intelligence is progressing in EPM. In this episode, you'll learn:

–> What ChatGPT means for EPM

–> How leading companies will approach AI in the planning and forecasting realm

–> What you can do to stay ahead of the curve on AI

This show is powered by CoThryve – the firm that helps EPM professionals grow their career.

Jonathan Morgan of Palo Alto Networks joins hosts Blake Bozarth & Chad Pyke to talk about what it looks like to expand a planning tool from one-off use cases to synchronized enterprise adoption. In this episode, you'll learn:

–> The origin story of Palo Alto bringing in a new EPM platform

–> Use cases for Anaplan including leveraging Anaplan's new optimizer model in supply & demand planning

–> Why you should raise your hand for cross-functional projects and job rotations to uplevel your career

–> How a passionate EPM professional can help connect the dots and drive enterprise adoption

This show is powered by CoThryve – the firm that helps EPM professionals grow their career.

Hosts Blake Bozarth & Chad Pyke speak with Brittany Martino who has an impressive background in consulting, corporate FP&A, and is now well on her way to becoming a bonafide Anaplan Solution Architect with Allitix. She drops nuggets in this episode including:

–> Why you should understudy multiple Solution Architects

–> The importance of stating your intentions and being direct to get the career experience

–> What's more important than getting the certifications (actual fluency!)

–> How to gain 5 - 15 mentors at your firm

–> Why feeling uncomfortable is a good thing for your career growth and what it's looked like for her in practice

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What does economic weirdness mean for EPM professionals? How much are Anaplan and EPM professionals making and how would a potential recession affect compensation?  

Blake & Chad jam on this topic and talk about how they’d advise college graduates in today’s market.   

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Visit all the pertinent links + find out how much Anaplan professionals are getting paid ($$$): https://linktr.ee/cothryve.

Stephanie Weiland is the Director of Strategic Finance at Genoa Healthcare and an EPM/finance veteran. She’s been featured on Anaplan panels and has added massive value to the ecosystem over her 10+ years in the industry. She shares her views on how to succeed as a business partner and grow your influence. In this episode you’ll learn:

→ What "Unicorn Leaders" do to jump levels in their career

This show is powered by CoThryve – the firm that helps EPM professionals grow their career.

Visit all the pertinent links + find out how much Anaplan professionals are getting paid ($$$): https://linktr.ee/cothryve

Jonathan Balkin founded Lionpoint Group in 2014, and it's now a 250 person consultancy and an Anaplan Gold partner. He shares his views on the EPM industry and keys to growing a successful career. In this episode, you'll learn:

–> If you want to grow your career in data / tech, you need to be able to sell ideas and have strong soft skills (what this looks like)

–> How certain platform and tech certifications are becoming more useful than an MBA and other educational tracks

–> Why understanding emerging data tech platforms and having integrations expertise will make you an invaluable asset

–> 2 reasons Jonathan favors consulting career path vs. in-house roles

–> What a healthy culture looks like in consulting and why consulting does NOT have to mean rat race and poor work-life balance

This show is powered by CoThryve – the firm that helps EPM professionals grow their career.

Heard of the term "Business Intelligence?" Howard Dresner coined it, and he's our featured guest. He shares what it means to become hyper-decisive, and in this episode you'll learn:

–> What "Information Democracy" is all about and how much further organizations have to go to get more eyes on the data

–> The key to becoming hyper-decisive in today's economy (analysis paralysis kills)

–> What you should avoid if you want to grow your career as a data and EPM professional

–> What's driving mid-market companies to invest in EPM capabilities (not just for the large corporates anymore)

–> The future of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in planning (not just buzz words, what to really expect in the coming years)

This show is powered by CoThryve – the firm that helps EPM professionals grow their career.