Scorecarding

The decision-maker’s dilemma: genuine facts vs. gut feel. Setting strategy for any organization requires a careful balance of sometimes competing priorities – improving product quality while lowering operational costs or meeting customer service expectations while answering shareholder demands for increased value. Too often, decisions are made by relying on lagging indicators – past-based metrics which fail to provide an optimal view into the future – and performance data retrieved from confusing, time-consuming multi-system sources. Result: strategy-setting is often a matter of best-guessing and gut feel, rather than real data.

The answer for many: fact-based Scorecarding. A proven approach for monitoring, measuring and managing business performance, Cognos Scorecarding as implemented by BPM Northwest aligns individual initiatives and organizational tactics with corporate goals and strategy.

• Scorecards deliver targeted information. Future-focused leading indicators compare actual performance to set goals, translate strategy into well-defined individual expectations and foster enterprise-wide accountability.
• Dashboards provide corporate clarity. Complex data is transformed into dynamic, high-impact presentations, providing intuitive, easily-grasped information. Review of business conditions is timely, continually refreshed and enterprise-wide data is consolidated for better alignment of even far-flung, global decision-making.
• A solution that works, enterprise-wide. Individual employees, managers and executives alike all benefit from metrics-based performance monitoring of everything from tactical projects to corporate-wide strategic planning.

BPM Northwest clients count on Scorecarding for well-defined, totally aligned strategic decision-making. They gain better perspective regarding their organization’s ability to turn strategic planning into clearly communicated objectives and achievable tactics. You too will find that Scorecarding is a key element in our suite of Business Performance Management solutions – another way to ensure that your decision-making is taking your company in the right direction.

We invite you to review our other Business Performance Management solutions, and should you have questions or need additional information, contact us direct. Simply contact us by phone at (503) 804-6085, or via e-mail.