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Corporate Performance Management

CPM real value is found in the process that decision makers can seamless move among the 3 fundamental questions:

• How are we doing
• Why?
• What should we be doing?

Translated to a technology perspective CPM means an integration and automation of:

• Planning, including budgeting & forecasting
• Scorecarding, with metrics integrated in Management Dashboards
• Business intelligence (or decision support), through all levels of the organization
• Data Warehouse as the one single truth in the organization

These technology areas are key to CPM’s value in letting organizations answer the essential business decisions.

The questions connect CPM requires they not be stand-alone elements. Knowing what happened, without finding out why, is of little use to the business. Knowing why something happened, but being unable to plan and make the necessary changes is likewise of limited value.

Just as the questions are connected, the fabric of information fueling the answers must connect as well. The answers must be based on a common understanding of

• metrics
• data dimensions
• data definitions
• views of the organization

Drawing answers from different, disconnected tools can cloud the window into the organization’s performance. The resulting dimmed view hampers the organization’s decision-making ability, and therefore, overall company agility.