Day: October 7, 2009

Enhanced Predictive Analytics Tools for Scorecards and Business Improvement

Business organizations need a business management system that has predictive scorecards, which encourage behaviors that benefit the enterprise as a whole. Common place red-yellow-green goal-based scorecards can lead to silo improvement efforts that result in much firefighting. In addition, traditional metric reporting that consists of a table of numbers, pie charts, or stacked bar charts are not predictive and provide only a snapshot of the past with no assessment of what is expected in the future. Also, variance to metric goals can lead to playing games with the numbers, which can be destructive to the business as a whole. The balanced scorecard approach for choosing metrics after strategy selection can lead to subjective metrics and measurements that are not long-lasting and are a function of economic and leadership changes. Described is an overall corporate performance management (CPM) system where organizations can analyze their predictive value-chain metrics collectively with other considerations, such as the current business-economic environment and the Theory of Constraints (TOC), to develop strategies.