Cognos furthered its ongoing relationship with IBM by appointing Steve Lukens, IBM’s global leader of Financial Management (FM) Consulting Services, to the advisory board of the Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management.

Mr. Lukens is responsible for leading IBM consultants around the world who provide strategy, systems and process assistance to CFO’s and finance organizations across all industries. He joins an esteemed group of advisors that guide Cognos and its customers in advancing state-of-the-art Performance Management practices.

IBM and Cognos have recently strengthened their industry alliance to jointly drive marketplace innovation and help more enterprise customers succeed with their Business Intelligence and performance management initiatives. Mr. Lukens will share his insights on key trends in performance management during an executive panel with Cognos CEO Rob Ashe today at Cognos Forum, the company’s annual customer conference.

Mr. Lukens has spent 24 years at Price Waterhouse, PwC Consulting and IBM providing operational improvement assistance, process redesign and change management services to a variety of multi-national, multi-billion dollar companies. His expertise and main focus is on improving the finance function within these companies.

In his role as advisor, Mr. Lukens will participate in one-on-one vision sessions, executive roundtables, and workshops designed to help companies understand the opportunity for performance improvement and develop a vision and roadmap using industry best-practices for sustainable process improvement.

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