Alignment & Cascading (ESM Enterprise Edition)

Organizations which have successfully made strategy execution a core competency have turned to the Executive Strategy Manager (ESM) to support their efforts in aligning firm-wide strategic priorities. The ESM helps manage the process of codifying the enterprise value proposition, translating that into an enterprise scorecard and then cascading that scorecard down to functional and business unit areas.

Additionally, once the organization's alignment framework has been developed, the ESM features tools which aid in the process of enterprise reporting, helping to answer questions such as, "How do our business units contribute towards achieving our customer value proposition?" or "What support unit synergies can we create to positively impact organizational efficiency?"

The ESM also serves as a communication tool, allowing organizations to share any subset of information with interested parties, both internal and external.

Key features in support of this include:

• Creation of multi-level cascaded scorecards
• Alignment matrices to ensure gap-free optimal alignment
• Linked objectives, measures and initiatives
• Data roll up
• Distributed initiatives - shared across business units
• Enterprise reporting � including drill down from top-level to business units
• Customized reports targeted for specific audiences