The document discusses a survey of 245 corporate executives that found deep dissatisfaction with their current Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) capabilities. Key gaps identified included alignment between strategy and planning, focus on key business drivers, time required for annual planning, forecasting speed and accuracy, ability to model business changes, financial reporting speed and accuracy, non-financial reporting, and integrated IT systems. The document then discusses how current systems focus more on tangible assets and current value, while future systems need to focus on current and future value from all assets, using integrated solutions.