Many factors influence your company's performance. But few areas under
your management are more important than your organization's
decision-making ability.
Getting answers and acting on them means integrating reporting and
analysis, planning, and measuring and monitoring--across your
organization. This integrated approach is the IBM COGNOS performance
management system.
By integrating information, technology, and people, your
decision-makers can become performance managers. Performance managers
look at metrics, plans and reports in their functional area to make the
best possible decisions.
They also use this same approach to connect with others. For example,
if Marketing decisions improve demand, then Sales and Operations needs
to know to ensure the supply is ready.
In this way your good decisions cause other good decisions. The end
result is better alignment, accountability, and performance.