To achieve true business agility everyone in your organization – from executives to front-line workers – must be ready to respond to and execute on strategy changes than can result from a volatile economic environment. Everyone needs to communicate plans clearly, translate them into priorities and tasks, and instantly monitor and report on progress to any level of detail.

To realize your company's goals – and stay ahead of the competition – you need an application that integrates all three pillars of strategy management and alignment: goals, initiatives, and key performance indicators (KPI). Plus, you need the ability to link these to accountable individuals within your organization. Only when these elements are aligned can your organization 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 organizational 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 – Organizations need metrics that everyone trusts, complete with drill-down functions and the ability to create personalized, reconfigurable views that are relevant to each employee.

Managing Strategy Across Your Company

The SAP BusinessObjects Edge Strategy Management application can be deployed at any level within your company for immediate results. For example, your marketing organization can roll out the software to ensure execution on 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 your company as required.

What's more, you can start small in any part of your company with monitoring and KPIs – for example, with a simple management scorecard, or in your customer services group. And as your requirements grow, your monitoring initiatives can expand accordingly.

Visibility into How Individual Actions Impact Overall Performance

SAP BusinessObjects Edge Strategy Management offers secure, role-based access to data from across your company, along with easy-to-understand interdependency diagrams – so your 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 your entire operation to spend more time executing on strategy and identifying new business opportunities.