Cognos 8 Scorecarding

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Written by John Vaughan
Wednesday, 03 February 2010 14:14
Scorecarding helps you align your teams and tactics with strategy, communicate goals consistently and monitor performance against targets.

More user communities

  • Use scorecard portlets to access and communicate scorecard content and encourage a broader use throughout your organization.
  • Hover over scorecard impact diagrams and instantly receive important metric information for you to act on without having to click anywhere to find it.
  • Add new strategic objectives and supporting metrics to scorecards and strategy maps without the need to rely on your IT group for assistance.

Ensure ownership and accountability for performance

  • Assign a primary owner for every metric.
  • Organize and view scorecards by status to focus on objectives and performance.
  • View scorecards by owner to understand accountability.
  • View scorecards in a strategy map to see how they fit into the corporate strategy.
  • Set events and alerts to keep you aware of when a metric changes status.
  • Embed business intelligence capabilities into your scorecards for added context and analysis.
  • Manage corrective actions and initiatives from within the application.

Align decisions and tactics with strategy

  • Use a metrics network and centralized data store to ensure reliable and consistent information.
  • Create a metric, diagram or scorecard once and use them wherever else they are needed to ensure consistent definitions and targets.

Implement your strategy and execute against it

  • Build and deploy scorecards quickly using wizards.
  • Scorecard and metric design tools reduce the time you need to create and deploy your system.
  • Use menus to define threshold ranges, benchmarks, data source definition, contact names and URLs for contextual information.
  • Create strategy maps, impact analysis and cause-and-effect diagrams, and other elements of the Balanced Scorecard.

Simple deployment and administration

  • Recalibrate targets in response to changes in performance with integrated planning capabilities.
  • Multilingual: metrics can be populated in any language and then displayed in users' preferred language.
  • Single sign-on dialog box.
  • Use three and five-state status indicators and plan vs. actual data to reveal progress against targets.
Last Updated ( Thursday, 25 February 2010 08:38 )