Performance Management
People + technology for your best decisions
Good decisions are the building blocks of great business performance. The performance management system from IBM, integrates software, services, best-practices, and partners.
The result – a common understanding and accountable actions based on answers to your performance management questions:
- How are we doing?
Measuring and monitoring performance with scorecards and dashboards tracks your key metrics. - Why?
Reporting and analysis let you see data, gain context, understand trends, and spot anomalies. - What should we be doing?
Planning, budgets, and forecasts let you set and share a reliable view of the future.
The Performance Management Framework
IBM identifies best-practice decision areas, or information sweet spots by business function:
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Be the Performance Manager
Many factors influence your company’s performance. But few areas under your management are more important than your organization’s decision-making ability.
Getting answers and acting on them means integrating reporting and analysis, planning, and measuring and monitoring—across your organization. This integrated approach is the IBM Cognos performance management system.
By integrating information, technology, and people, your decision-makers can become performance managers. Performance managers look at metrics, plans, and reports in their functional area to make the best possible decisions.
They also use this same approach to connect with others. For example, if Marketing decisions improve demand, then Sales and Operations needs to know to ensure the supply is ready.
In this way, your good decisions cause other good decisions. The end result is better alignment, accountability, and performance.
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