Innovative Intelligence Governance (IIG)

The focus on costs is gone, and so the focus on competition performed with an exclusive focus on cost reduction. The time of finance is over, as well as the attempt that many entrepreneurs have tried, in order to make their financial deals as a business driver itself, losing its meaning as an exclusive support to their core business. Now, and if the price to pay was not so high, I would say, “finally”, we only have innovation left, to save public and private companies.

On more than one occasion, and always more frequently, I am asked what the real value generated by a BICC initiative [Business Intelligence Competency Center] is. Certainly it is a fair question for people in the company that is at the beginning of this path and feel it as a "discipline" that could lead to bottlenecks, absorb resources, quickly dampen the enthusiasm and then add more frustration to the ongoing projects.

No company is like any other. Therefore, no solution for Corporate Performance Management can be defined as static. Peculiarities of models, metrics and modes do not have to lead to consider Performance Management initiatives as lacking of design and application settings.

Considering we can have three types of metrics – Financial, Operational and Performance - , the objectives of CPM projects can be grouped into three main categories: Strategic alignment, Performance planning and Result monitoring