Solution overview

The i-nexus Goal Deployment solution is designed specifically to enable organizations to effectively manage all aspects of goal definition, cascade, execution and review. With out-of-the-box' support for the popular Hoshin Planning format, the simplicity and integration of i-nexus Goal Deployment solution is enabling leading organisations such as Dresser and AREVA to focus energy on execution, rather than wasting it reconciling a multitude of inconsistent spreadsheets.

Key Challenges

Its not easy to align and energise many thousands of employees in pursuit of business goals. In practice, those executives that attempt to implement goal deployment typically face a number of significant challenges that if not addressed significantly erode the potential of the appproach. These challenges include:

1. Dealing with the Complexity Inherent in Defining and Cascading Goals. One goal on an executive's presentation can translate to tens, if not hundreds, of executable actions at an operational level.
2. Establishing Accountability For Action. Clear accountability requires more than just assigning somebody an action - it requires a clear ‘handshake' between the person delegating and the person receiving the goal.
3. Ensuring Objectives are Translated into Action Plans. Objectives at all levels need to be systematically translated into action plans and those action plans need to be systematically driven to completion.
4. Knowing if We Are Heading in the Right Direction. Monitoring progress against actions is not enough - we need to know if the actions are actually delivering on the targets we have set for the goals.

i-nexus Goal Deployment Solution

The i-nexus Goal Deployment solution is designed to enable every stage of the goal deployment and review cycle. Key capabilities include:

• Goal Definition and Review. i-nexus enables executives to define business goals and to visualize the cascade of these goals down through the organisation.
• Goal Delegation. i-nexus enables each manager to cascade goals to their team and to complete a ‘catch-ball' validation of targets with goal assignees.
• Action Planning. i-nexus enables goal assignees to plan, resource and forecast the impact of implementation actions.
• Automated Data Collection/Aggregation. i-nexus makes it easy to automate the extraction of data from existing systems and to systemize the reporting of the KPIs which measure achievement of goals.
• Performance Forecasting. i-nexus answers the critical question - ‘are we likely to hit the targets?' by automatically aggregating the forecast impact of all on-going actions.
• Execution Reviews. Based on current and forecast performance, i-nexus makes it easy to review the progress that organization is making to towards achieving the business goals.

Solution Benefits

In addition to eliminating virtually all non-value added effort involved deploying and tracking goals, i-nexus customers are seeing dramatic (50%+) improvements in execution ‘follow through' (the proportion of goal-driven actions that actually get done).