ManagePro, Software that gives a Boost to
Managing
Strategically
Finally... One Software That Bridges the Gap
faced by all Strategic Managers
What's the Outcome you Intend to Reach with
Strategic Software?
1) Improved Visibility and Access to project plans, status updates, action items and related documents.
2) Improved Organization and Coordination of work effort, with reduced slip-ups, reduced mistakes, and reduced errors due to miss-communication.
3) Improved Accountability and Follow-Through on assigned goals, projects and tasks.
4) Improved Focus & Prioritization, helping everyone be more strategic, less reactive in overall performance, and reduce time spent on non- priority activities.
5) Improved Planning & Performance, with easy to read score cards and dashboards measuring what's importing.
Strategic Management hinges on building a bridge
over the execution gap. Most organizations
have some sort of gap when it comes to working their
strategy. For some, the gap stretches most of
the year and is characterized by the "urgent",
fire-fighting, and "business as usual",
The truth is, bridging the gap from having
a strategic plan to executing it is a challenging objective,
an outcome that requires both a technology and a
people approach-based solution.
The majority of people in management reporting
wanting a strategic operation, but not having a strategic planning
and follow-up system that
readily connects strategy to day-to-day operations.
That's the gap, moving from strategic plan to
strategic execution.
ManagePro provides the technology to ensure your
investment in strategic planning pays off in
business growth deliverables. It's the
software strategic managers need to bridge the
execution gap - to manage strategically, not just to
the next deadline.
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 is a complete strategic management tool.
From a business performance perspective, 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.
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.
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.
To keep it upfront in everyone's focus tying into inputs from project
status updates, (Balanced) scorecards, metrics, and business and personal performance indicators.
ManagePro offers a number of critical
strategic management solutions to support
every
strategic manager 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
corporate strategic planning and consulting
solution for crossing the gap between strategic planning and
stratgic execution - for journeying to the performance
improvement and strategic operation 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
strategic 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
of strategic operations, 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 organization 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
Organization Checklist
Yes
Partially
No
1. Are the top strategic
objectives 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
strategic objectives 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
strategic management solution 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?
hint - ManagePro does.
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.
To keep it upfront in everyone's focus tying into inputs from project
status updates, (Balanced) scorecards, metrics, and business and personal performance indicators.
