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Akili Joins the Beyond Budgeting Round Table and Offers Clients Access to Adaptive Enterprise Resources

March 11, 2011

Akili’s clients now have resources available to develop an adaptive business lifecycle with Akili joining the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRT). BBRT is at the heart of a new movement that is searching for ways to build lean, adaptive and ethical enterprises that can sustain superior competitive performance. BBRT and Akili have developed an integrated methodology whereby if a client is looking to re-establish their Budgeting and Forecasting processes to become a more adaptive enterprise, BBRT will work with Akili and the client to create brand new techniques.

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DALLAS, Texas (March 11, 2011) – Akili’s clients now have resources available to develop an adaptive business lifecycle with Akili joining the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRT). BBRT is at the heart of a new movement that is searching for ways to build lean, adaptive and ethical enterprises that can sustain superior competitive performance.

BBRT and Akili have developed an integrated methodology whereby if a client is looking to re-establish their Budgeting and Forecasting processes to become a more adaptive enterprise, Akili can incorporate BBRT's principles to create brand new techniques.

“Akili’s decision to join the BBRT was rooted in our desire to bring the best methodology to our client’s implementations,” said Shiek Shah, CEO.  “Steve’s Player’s adaptive business and thought-leadership concepts will allow our client’s day to day processes and profitability to be maximized.”

Along with access to an extensive library of world-wide best practice studies and implementation experiences, Akili’s Budgeting, Planning and Consolidations (BPC) practice can work with BBRT’s Steve Player of The Player Group and author of business best sellers, “Beyond Budgeting” and “Future Ready”.  Akili’s technical software knowledge combined with BBRT’s thought leadership fuels the transformation of Akili’s client’s processes to make planning a continuous, inclusive activity instead of a top-down annual event. Strategy planning and decision-making will be re-evaluated and re-defined according to the BBRT’s adaptive principles, coinciding with the company’s key performance indicators.

“The BBRT and the Player Group have a single focus of educating business teams with a set of simple strategies that any organization can use to master the processes of budgeting, planning, and forecasting,” said author Steve Player.  “We count it a privilege to work with Akili and their clients.”

About BBRT

The Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRT) is a network of member organizations with a common interest in improving planning, forecasting and control, thereby improving overall performance. The BBRT helps organizations learn from world-wide best practice studies and encourages them to share information, past successes and implementation experiences to develop dramatically improved solutions to traditional budgeting constraints.

The BBRT promotes a set of principles that lead to more dynamic processes and front-line accountability. Organizations that follow this approach transform their management model in line with these principles, which are outlined in Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap, published by Harvard Business School Press.

About Steve Player

Steve Player is the co-author/editor of five books on Activity-Based Management and currently writes a monthly “Finance Transformation” feature for Business Finance Magazine in which he interviews CFOs from leading organizations on innovative finance and planning processes. Additionally, Steve has served as a monthly columnist on cost management for Controller Magazine. He also serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Cost Management as well as a resource for various publications including Investor’s Business Daily, Financial World, Global Finance, The Dallas Morning News and Journal of Cost Management.

About The Player Group

The Player Group, founded by Steve Player, was formed in 2001 to provide access to best-in-class advanced knowledge and leadership in the areas of planning, performance measurement and cost management, with specific focus on forecasting and Activity Based Cost Management (ABCM).

The Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRT) is a strategic research and thought leadership partner of the Player Group that evolves leading-edge management concepts into action-oriented implementation plans and results.

About Akili

Akili is an IT services firm specializing in SAP BusinessObjects (BOBJ), including Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Business Intelligence (BI) and Enterprise Information Management (EIM) solutions. Akili is an SAP BusinessObjects™ partner and an SAP silver channel partner and SAP services partner in the SAP PartnerEdge™ program.

Akili , headquartered in the Dallas suburb of Irving, Texas has a 17 year track record of successful implementations for small regional companies, mid size national companies, and multi-national Fortune 5 companies in various industries including Manufacturing, Healthcare, Financial Services, Hospitality-Entertainment, Energy, Construction, and Telecom, among others.  For more information on the Beyond Budgeting Round Table visit www.bbrt.org.  For more information on the Player Group visit www.theplayergroup.com.