Moderation: Johannes von Mulert, IBCS Association

08:30 Check-in and coffee

09:00 Welcome and opening

Karol Sikora, ICV Warsaw
Piotr Bilinski, Controlling Partner

09:15 Where do we stand today?

Rolf Hichert, IBCS Association

09:45 From charts to insight and action

Creating business value with a problem-solving perspective
Dietmar Meyersiek, EXES GmbH

• Too often, instruments of communication in reporting, controlling and planning focus on descriptive activities. Causal analyses, expanding the solution space, exploring creative solutions and predicting/visualizing consequences of actions are insufficiently employed. New information sources (“Big Data”) and advanced analytics offer opportunities for creating and communicating business value with a problem-solving perspective. The speech provides a powerful framework using business examples.

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Elevator pitches of IBCS® Sponsors 2016

11:15 Parallel breakout sessions 1 and 2

12:15 Lunch break

13:30 The city of Graz report

A closer look with the magnifying glass
Dietmar Pascher, Controller Akademie

• Challenges of putting IBCS into practice.
• What worked, what did not work and why?
• The way is the goal!

14:00 Parallel breakout sessions 3 and 4

15:00 Coffee break

15:30 Summaries of breakout sessions

16:45 IBCS® outlook beyond 2016

Jürgen Faisst, IBCS Association

17:00 End of the conference

Apéro

Session 1: Title standards

Arne-Kristian Schulz, blueforte GmbH

Arne will make some suggestions and collect the ideas from the participants about the following topics:

• How do we notate time periods, scenarios, and variances etc.?
• How does this effect the “third row” of our present title standard?
• Is there a need to standardize other title elements such as rankings, averages, etc.?

Download a draft of Arne’s presentation in preparation for the discussion.

Session 2: Scenarios and semantic axes

Jürgen Faisst, HICHERT+FAISST GmbH

Jürgen will discuss concrete changes in the definition and visualization of scenarios:

• Semantic notation for character of scenarios (actual, planned)?
• Semantic axes for variance charts only? (How to handle stacked columns and bars?)
• No more labelling of scenarios on x-axes?

Download a draft of Jürgen’s presentation in preparation for the discussion.

Session 3: Stock and flow measures

Rolf Hichert, HICHERT+FAISST GmbH

Rolf will discuss concrete suggestions for the visualization of stock and flow measures:

• Area and line charts for stock values and YTD values?
• How to identify stock and flow values in horizontal and vertical axes?
• Is there a conflict with the planned “value-volume” and “good-bad-neutral” notation?

Download a draft of Rolf’s presentation in preparation for the discussion.

Session 4: Dashboard topics

Raphael Branger, IT-Logix AG

Raphael will discuss some suggestions and collect the ideas from the participants about the following topics:

• Should the IBCS Standards also cover interactive elements?
• How do they interact with titles?
• How to handle scaling in interactive systems? Consistent per application or per page?

Download a draft of Raphael’s presentation in preparation for the discussion.