IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

Scorecarding

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Scorecarding helps you align your teams and tactics with strategy, communicate goals consistently, and monitor performance against targets.

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• Use scorecard portlets to access and communicate scorecard content and encourage a broader use across 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.

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Scorecarding with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: Monitor, Manage. and Perform.

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Scorecarding Concepts White Paper bundle

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