Link Projects / Initiatives to Strategic Goals in Software

Most organizations have too few resources, but far too many projects. The challenge is how to apply the limited resources – money, time, and people – to the most strategically important projects and execute them well. Project management software packages can be great tools, but they typically fall short of showing how projects are truly related to organizational goals and whether or not completed projects are having their intended effect on an organizational shortfall.

Links Projects Directly to Strategy: Scorecards or dashboards display all relevant initiatives/projects right alongside the related strategic objectives, organizational goals, KPIs, and performance metrics. This provides decision makers a quick snapshot of current strategic performance, as well as the status and budget of all related projects. With a click, users can drill down to learn more details. Most importantly, the impact an initiative is (or isn't) having on a particular KPI/metric is clear and visible, so ineffective projects may be refocused or ceased before undue resources are spent.

Supports Initiative & Task Management: ActiveStrategy Enterprise provides support for organizations to manage initiatives/projects, tasks, and program groups with timelines, budgets, ownership, and other details, from either a high-level strategic view or a detailed, tactical perspective.

Puts Ownership Where It Belongs: In ActiveStrategy Enterprise, initiative/project/task owners are able to update their own initiatives, projects, tasks, and action items, ensuring that information is timely and accurate.

Manages Portfolios and Program Groups: ActiveStrategy Enterprise helps organizations manage very large groups of projects, initiatives, or programs using the system's levels of hierarchical groupings. Leaders and project managers may review progress at a very high level, by looking at a Portfolio-level Gantt chart, for example, or drill down into task-level details. The system can also roll-up the status from an entire group of initiative to the strategic level, providing a single stoplight indicator that summarizes performance of the group or indicates if any of the initiatives are off-track.

Provides Alerting & Reporting Capabilities: ActiveStrategy Enterprise will send customized email alerts directly to owners when projects/initiatives need to be updated. The system also provides a wide-range of management and administrative reporting options to ensure visibility.