Business Objects Solutions for Six Sigma Projects

Dashboards help organizations reach stated goals by leveraging information and analytics. They provide alignment, visibility, and collaboration across the organization by allowing business users to define, monitor, and analyze business performance via key performance indicators (KPIs).

Whether organizations choose to implement strategic or tactical performance management initiatives, dashboards can provide the foundation for enabling organizations to more effectively align their business strategy with execution.

Specifically, management dashboards enable performance management by meeting the necessary dashboard requirements of all the company constituencies.

Organizational Needs - Dashboards enable performance management by allowing organizational groups to work together synergistically in the following ways:

• Alignment. Focus and channel the entire business on commonly agreed upon goals and objectives via dashboard KPIs.
• Visibility. Enable the business to track and analyze defined KPIs that not only exist within departmental domains, but also broadly across the entire enterprise.
• Collaboration. Provide the organization with a single common view of defined objectives, thereby enabling alignment and joint decision making by company employees, partners, and suppliers.

Business User Needs - From senior management to departmental workers, business users are empowered to drive business performance when dashboards possess the following attributes:

• Intuitive. Present an easy-to-use management dashboard to ensure user adoption.
• Personalizable. Provide users with the specific performance indicators, analysis functions, and layout personalization necessary for their jobs.
• Powerful, interactive insight. Communicate actionable information to decision makers via robust performance indicators, rules and alerts, and advanced analysis capabilities.