Effective action is the key to closing the strategy to execution gap. How do you enable everyone – from C-level executives to front-line workers – to focus on the actions required to achieve key initiatives?

The SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Management application helps you communicate plans and objectives, align business units and allocate resources to key priorities, monitor and report on progress, and proactively take action when issues arise.

SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Management includes the following functionality:

• Accountability – Assign individual responsibility for objectives, key performance indicators, and initiatives.
• Alignment – Improve performance and align execution with strategy by connecting goals, initiatives, and metrics.
• Central KPI repository – Leverage a simplified and centralized administration of KPIs to drive consistency.
• Collaboration – Empower everyone in the organization – from senior executives to those responsible for day-to-day execution – with embedded, threaded comments for discussions around issues, as well as the ability to create and use operational reviews and link to external content, such as defined best practices.
• Exception management – Receive automatic notification of below-horizon objectives that may be in jeopardy.
• Impact management – Measure the impact of initiatives to determine how best to allocate resources.
• Performance comparisons – Compare business unit performance side-by-side or with other relevant benchmarks.
• Mobility – Improve responsiveness by keeping business users actively engaged in key performance improvement initiatives – anywhere and anytime – via their mobile devices.
• Scorecards – Get a quick indication of status with easy-to-interpret scorecards and drill into more detailed screens for additional analysis and exception management.

With SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Management, you can realize the following benefits:

• Greater agility – Through more effective communication and understanding of priorities, risk, and progress you can increase operational alignment and agility – which can lead to faster reprioritization, reallocation of resources, and response to issues.
• Improved visibility – Gain control over the factors that affect your organization by monitoring progress on a regular basis and providing easy access to personally relevant performance data – improving accountability and collaboration throughout the organization.
• Intuitive UI – With an intuitive, comprehensive user interface (UI) that supports scorecards, metrics and initiatives management, you can quickly determine the status of an objective or progress on important initiatives, and drill into key performance indicators to proactively take action on issues.
• More confidence in decisions and information – When everyone across the organization is working with the same data, you can react faster and more confidently to changing business needs.
• Optimized performance – Get greater organizational alignment, understanding of interdependencies, and strategy adoption – and clearly link strategic goals , KPIs, and initiatives to employee actions.

The SAP Strategy Management mobile application is now available for your Apple iPad – empowering you to keep your team actively engaged in key performance improvement initiatives, even when they are on the go.

With the mobile app, you can extend the reach of your on-premise SAP Strategy Management software to your mobile users. The mobile app can help you:

• Analyze organizational performance at a glance
• Manage daily activities
• Get alerts and collaborate on key issues that require immediate attention

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