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Performance-oriented enterprise planning activities require a degree of flexibility that enables an organization to be responsive to changes in customer demand, competitors’ new offerings, margin-friendly supply opportunities, or other important shifts that occur during the course of business. But a pre-set plan that is wholly focused on financial drivers runs the risk of deterring courses of action that are actually good for business, because they’re viewed as deviations from plan. Ironically, planning can dampen performance-driving initiative at the point of execution. While plans must be linked to financial performance, the fact remains they are enacted throughout the organization. Therefore, performance management activities are greatly enriched when participation in the planning process is extended deeper into the organization to engage the people at the front lines of the business.

What’s required is a business intelligence system of reliable, current information about the business. Thus equipped, people throughout the enterprise can identify changing business conditions and new opportunities as they relate to their part of the business. And they can make decisions and take action that is on-strategy. Business intelligence takes vast amounts of corporate data from multiple sources and turns it into meaningful understanding about the business. It’s about infusing reliability into the planning process and, through solid metrics management, taking the risk out of a company’s ability to execute. Management needs to gain visibility into key drivers and levers of performance, which help them quickly identify and address disparities between current conditions and strategic plans. Incorporating reliable and timely information into the planning process will lead to more accurate financial forecasts, and expands the business performance horizon.


KPI consultants have helped numereous companies in building a solid Business Intelligence environment.