Business agility means that everyone – from C-level executives to front-line workers – needs to execute on changing strategies. Everyone needs to communicate plans clearly, translate them into priorities and tasks and instantly monitor and report on progress to any level of detail. At the same time, employees need the tools to execute properly on a day-to-day basis, as well as make well-informed decisions.

To realise your organisation's goals – and stay ahead of the competition – you need solutions that integrate all three pillars of strategy management: goals, initiatives and key performance indicators. Plus, you need the ability to link these to accountable individuals within your organisation. Only when these elements are aligned can your organisation hone decision making and achieve your short-, medium- and long-term objectives:

• Goals – Goal-setting must involve a variety of stakeholders (top down and bottom up), be interactive, be updated frequently and tie explicitly to organisational operations and initiatives.
• Initiatives – Employees need better insight into the strategic relevance of projects so that they can make informed choices about which projects should take precedence over others.
• Key performance indicators – Organisations need metrics that everyone trusts, complete with drill-down functions and the ability to create personalised, reconfigurable views that are relevant to each employee.

Strategy Management Across the Enterprise

SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Management can be deployed at the department level, not just at the corporate level, for immediate results. For example, your marketing organisation can roll out the software to ensure the execution of marketing initiatives needed to drive sales – and deploy it jointly with the sales department for more effective collaboration on reaching sales goals. Smaller operational implementations allow your company to quickly develop a record of success – and then scale the application across the enterprise. Once deployed on a corporate level, you can align corporate and operational strategies with ease and gain complete visibility from a performance management perspective.

Risk-Adjusted Strategy Management

With secure, role-based access to data from across the enterprise and interdependency diagrams, employees can better understand how their work affects (and is affected by) other stakeholders and departments. They can quickly measure ongoing progress toward their objectives, assess risk and determine where efforts are most needed. This insight frees executives, managers and analysts to spend more time executing on strategy and identifying new or more optimal opportunities for the business.

Delivering All Your Enterprise Performance Management Needs

SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Management is part of BusinessObjects Enterprise performance management solutions – a comprehensive set of solutions that helps your company to capitalise on the value of your existing data assets. With these solutions, your organisation becomes more agile, gaining organisational alignment, visibility and greater confidence to give you optimal control and competitive advantage.

SAP BusinessObjects EPM solutions can work with SAP Business Suite applications; SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk and compliance solutions; and SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence and information management solutions. As a result, you can maximise business profitability, manage risk and compliance and optimise corporate systems, people and processes.