Watch this Webcast to learn how your organization can link strategic plans to tasks, budgets, metrics, performance goals, and people using the SAP Strategy Management application, a modular offering that helps break down the traditional barriers separating strategy and execution.

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Most organizations find it relatively easy to set goals. But all too often, these objectives are established at a high level, limited to financial contexts, and all but invisible to line workers, supervisors and project managers. SAP Strategy Management, a comprehensive application that plays key role with the SAP group of solutions for performance management, helps connect the dots - bridging the gap between strategy and execution.

In this Webcast, you'll find out how companies are using the SAP Strategy Management application to define, monitor and optimize results. You'll also learn how successful companies are establishing a new level of alignment between objectives and results across many organizational levels.

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Why Performance Management? An Analyst Perspective

What is strategy management? How does it relate to corporate performance management (CPM)? And does it really have the potential to boost shareholder value, enhance processes, or improve bottom line results?
Group Vice President, IDC

Henry Morris is the General Manager for IDC's Integration, Development, and Application Strategies research group, which seeks to understand how technology is being used to support business processes. Dr. Morris started IDC's Analytics and Data Warehousing research service in 1997. Currently, he is exploring the relationship between business intelligence and business process automation.

Dr. Morris has been an instructor in technical writing at Northeastern University and an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Colgate University. He holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Henry Morris , a Group Vice President at IDC, discusses the trends, issues, and potential of performance management approaches.

Customer Success: KLA Tencor

KLA Tencor has been using the SAP Strategy Management application to fine tune process within its service organization.
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Senior Solution Delivery Manager, KLA-Tencor Corporation

As a Senior Solution Delivery Manager at KLA-Tencor, Stephen Stone is part of the company's Enterprise Application Solutions team. He began his 7-year career at KLA-Tencor as a Technical Support Manager, supporting the Surfscan surface metrology product division, then crossed over to information technology 2 years ago after spearheading operational best practices and business process optimization within the Global Support Services division.

His organization recently marked its fourth anniversary using the SAP Strategy Management application, and continues to focus on closing the gap between strategic vision and operational execution. Steve Stone , head of Delivery Management of Enterprise Applications at KLA Tencor, how the company is moving beyond the use of gut instinct and making performance observations based on real data and real facts.

SAP Strategy Management Solution Overview

Director, Solutions Management, SAP Strategy Management, SAP

As Director of Solutions Management for SAP Strategy Management, Ranga Bodla leads a team that is responsible for delivering innovative strategy management products to the market. Prior to joining SAP, Bodla headed up marketing for Pilot Software (subsequently acquired by SAP) as well as Hyperion and IBM. With more than 12 years of experience building products for both large and small high-tech companies, Ranga is responsible for bringing relevant and innovative solutions that help organization improve business performance.

An active participant in the performance management community, Ranga frequently writes and speaks on performance management topics. Ranga Bodla , Director of Solutions Management for SAP Strategy Management provides an overview of the strategy management application, highlighting the results and benefits achieved by a variety of customers.