Complete Strategic Planning & Performance Management Solution
Finally... One Software for the Entire Organization That Bridges the Gap between Strategic Planning and Execution Performance Management
Creating a well functioning strategic management system, one that drives the organization's performance, focus and outcomes, is a high impact business objective and competitive differentiator with one little problem.
The truth is, bridging the gap is an important, but challenging objective, both from a technology and a people perspective. The majority of people in management reporting wanting, but not having, a strategic planning system that ties into inputs from project status updates, (Balanced) scorecards, metrics, and business and personal performance indicators.
The key to bridging this gap with technology, is the ability to cascade down from top level planning, dashboard and score-card features, into day-to-day operations and tasks. From a business performance management perspective, ultimately a strategic planning software needs to extend drill-down and coordination capabilities all the way to the individual worker's daily prioritization of tasks and time. Without that ability, it becomes divorced from day-to-day realities and strategy becomes something just the "top brass" worry about.
PST's products provide a basis for marrying strategic planning and execution performance management, incorporating the best of visibility and alignment around strategic goals and initiatives, as well as corporate and individual performance metrics using four different views to suit your needs.
ManagePro offers a number of critical features to support you in the processes of strategic planning, visibility, tracking and execution. Three of those features (the Strategic Scorecard Map, the Strategic Plan Highlight filter button and Weighted Average Scores for strategy goal scorecards) are covered in depth in our online article "Strategy Execution Tools".
People and Strategy
As strong as the ManagePro technology is, PST brings an equally capable consulting solution for crossing the gap between strategic planning and execution - for journeying to the performance improvement destination. It is a journey along which we have guided many leaders and organizations. We provide the technology tools, the coaching, and the experience of "having been there, done that" with organizations all over the world wishing to build an organization that functions more strategically. We essentially provide a guide service to those leaders and organizations intending to scale new performance levels. We know:
- What leadership skills are essential to practice, and which choices are equivalent to walking off a cliff.
- We know where the resistance is going to come from, what form it will take and how it needs to be addressed.
- We know how to set up a strategic management tool such that it helps the organization achieve its goal, not get in the way of it.
- Finally we know where the battle is fought and won in the minds, in the habits and ultimately in the results of people in your organization.
Strategic performance management systems are built upon PST's technology, using either desktop (fat client), smart client or browser based versions of ManagePro or some combination of the three versions. If you are wondering what PST's management solution might look like within the organization in which you work, imagine being able to record an immediate "Yes" to the following questions and then download our demo or give us a toll free call at (877) 487-3001.
| Strategic Performance Management Checklist | Yes | Partially | No |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Are the top strategic initiatives embodying the plan, values and assumption for growing the company clearly in one place and easily tracked with updated metrics? | |||
| 2. Are the key action steps (plan) or milestones for each initiative easily identifiable and tracked? | |||
| 3. Do all top level initiatives and projects receive weekly progress updates for immediate drill down and expedition of review in staff meetings? | |||
| 4. Can each person see the context for the projects and tasks they are working on, such that the connection to top level objectives and the strategic plan is visible? | |||
| 5. Is there a single source for viewing or working with key projects and their relative progress across departments and across individuals? | |||
| 6. Is there a tool in place to track target goals vs. results in a color coded format across goals, objectives and projects? E.g. An easy-to-use "Management by exception" tool? Can that tool be viewed in an outline, or Gantt chart, or work-flow model to suit each user? | |||
| 7. Is there a tool for connecting all documents, e-mail and action items or to-dos to their related project or task for immediate review of past history and correspondence? | |||
| 8. Finally, is there a tool in place that with a single mouse click converts goal and project results into an annual review format for the person's assigned to that task? |
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