IBM Cognos Scorecarding
Scorecarding is a key capability within IBM Cognos Business Intelligence. Scorecarding helps you align your teams and tactics with strategy; communicate goals consistently, and monitor performance against targets.
Scorecarding - Align decisions and tactics with strategy
- Create a metric, diagram or scorecard once and then distribute widely to ensure consistent scorecarding definitions and targets.
- Use a centralised data store and metrics network to ensure reliable information.
- Create strategy maps, impact analysis and cause-and-effect diagrams, and other elements of the Balanced Scorecard.
Implement your strategy and track your progress
- Build and deploy scorecards quickly using wizards.
- Use menus to define threshold ranges, benchmarks, data source definitions, contact names and URLs for contextual information.
- Deploy scorecard and metric design tools to reduce the time needed to create and deploy your system.
Ensure ownership and accountability for performance
- Assign a primary owner for every metric for greater accountability.
- Organize and view scorecards by status to focus on objectives and performance.
- View scorecards in a strategy map to see how they fit into corporate strategy.
- Set events and alerts to keep you aware of changes in metric status.
- Embed business intelligence capabilities into your scorecards for added context and analysis.
- Manage corrective actions and initiatives from within the application.
Share with more user communities
- Use scorecard portlets to access and communicate scorecard content and encourage broader use throughout your organization.
- Populate metrics in any language and then display in users' preferred language.
- 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 assistance from IT.
Enjoy simple deployment and administration
- Recalibrate targets in response to changes in performance with integrated planning capabilities.
- Provide quick access with single sign-on dialog box.
Use three and five-state status indicators and plan vs. actual data to reveal progress against
