Sky Performance Management Methodology
A Proven methodology is key to a successful implementation of Performance Management solutions. A comprehensive methodology will typically cover the following:
- Capture requirements that:
- Are aligned with business goals
- Provide information at all levels of the organization
- Are Strategic and Operational
- Establish communication channels
- Identify Ownership and sponsorship at the right levels
- Monitor ROI for all deliverables
- Identify Gaps and Risks
- Make sure the correct resources are assigned at the right time
- Gain sponsors’ buy-in and signoff
Sky Solutions has developed a comprehensive performance management methodology and supporting toolset to assure successful implementations.
- Identifying and documenting business goals and user requirements
- Identifying business and data gaps
- ROI Analysis
- Developing an Implementation Roadmap
The Sky Business-Ready Methodology starts with an alignment of business goals with measurable Key Performance Indicators. Once identified, KPI’s are scored for business value vs. cost. With the assured value in hand our Implementation Roadmap is geared to fast delivery of logically grouped business areas. Typically, an implementation cycle should last 4 to 6 weeks.
the business content includes a repository containing a large array of strategy maps and 100’s of Key Performance Indicators to choose from…supporting both discreet and process.
Sky Performance Management Repository
Based on the demand to maintain internal metadata for Performance Management Solutions, Sky Solutions has developed a Performance Management Repository Application. When implementing a solution, this solution will provide information and direction and provide a focused direction for a successful implementation. The Sky Performance Management Repository is used for the following:
- Store Strategy Maps – assist customer to map business Goals-Strategies-Tactics-Initiative-KPI’s
- Maintain the attributes of the KPI (i.e. definitions, calculation, where the data resides in the organization, etc.)
- ROI functionality – Score the Value of the KPI’s relative to its cost and complexity
- Define Performance Views – design content of portlets, reports, dashboards, scorecards, etc.
- Define and define Scorecard content – Metrics, Cause & Effect, etc.
- Interface to IBM Cognos 8 Metrics Studio – creates the scorecard in Cognos 8