Is Your Company’s Strategy a Secret, Even to Your Employees?

I was recently in touch with a team implementing performance management in a large technology company. To their frustration, the project stalled when the company’s executive team refused to roll out the strategy maps to the rest of the organization on the grounds that it was "confidential"… Given this type of behavior, is it really any surprise that 95%* of a typical workforce does not understand their organization’s strategy?! To... [Read More...]

SAP Buys an EIS Pioneer

SAP just purchased Pilot Software, which first came out with an executive information system (EIS) in 1986. I remember evaluating Pilot Lightship, a windows-based EIS solution, in 1992 or so. Then they had almost no discernable impact on mainstream BI for fifteen years, only to pop up recently as a “company to watch” according to Intelligent Enterprise. They were a pioneer in the Balanced Scorecard space and it looks like they have developed... [Read More...]