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Background

 

Focal Point fully Web deployed and available on the Cloud

In today’s business environment the need has been identified for a tool that can provide the executive management with excellent ‘decision support’ and prioritisation capability in real-time.

The 2010 IBM CEO Study continued to show that organisations still identified change as a major pressing problem. Today CEOs are telling us that the complexity of operating in an increasingly volatile and uncertain world is now their primary challenge.

Making reliable informed decisions requires collaboration across your entire organisation and one cohesive,

dynamic blueprint that allows you to manage the impact of business-driven change.

Rational© Focal Point™ from IBM also gives you a holistic view and understanding of what it takes to transform your strategies into prioritised, measurable initiatives

In short Focal Point™  helps your organisation:

bullet pointMake faster, better-informed strategic and tactical decisions

bullet pointPrioritise investments to support business goals

bullet pointImprove risk management of organisational transformation

bullet pointTurn strategy into execution and measure the results

The Focal Point™  software tool is ideally positioned to aid prioritisation and ‘decision support’ for all those in Leadership, the Executive, Programme Management, or Strategy and Planning roles across the organisation.

IBM® Rational® Focal Point™ will provide business-driven portfolio management and/or real-time decision support and prioritisation helping executives and their management teams to make the right decisions at the right time to deliver business, customer and even project value.

A smarter business needs smarter software, systems and services.'Let’s build a smarter planet.’    link to this pdf document on Focal Point

Some Perspectives as provided within Focal Point™- Back to top--

aspects of FP building a Smarter Planet

Dashboards (fully customisable) of Financials, weighting factors on criteria to determine value against Strategic Objectives, and share of overall Programme of projects and Status, within a Portfolio Management Application workspace.

Visualise the Risk or Cost etc. or any criteria that you wish to minimise, against all those criteria you wish to maximise like Strategic Objectives, Benefits, or Net Present Value, ROI, or IRR etc.

Prioritise; Visualise; Real-time Dashboards;Financial Analysis; Subjective Stakeholder input; What if? scenarios; Adjust timelines against Profiles and Threshholds; Resourcing plus Decision Support on Budiness Investments

delivered around the globe
 
Real-time Dashboards

Focal Point dashboards

Visualisation and What if? Scenarios Back to top

Focal Point prioritisation and decision support
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Using the collation and representation of all your inputs within Focal Point™, make fully informed decisions – determine the real impact of those decisions, and account for any “unintended consequences” ahead of time.

Determine the real ‘value’ of projects being undertaken, and be able to really prioritise and deliver effectively on your strategy and at the same time get the best “value for money” possible.

These applications shown here are only a sample of what can be achieved with the Focal Point™  toolset. CBA Consulting is utilising this tool in many other ways within ‘management’ practice to provide real ‘insight’ in areas such as Talent Management, Business Impact, Decision Support, and Economic Development.

Call CBA StrategicIT to discuss more about turning ‘insight into foresight’ with a powerful decision support and prioritisation tool - IBM® Rational® FocalPoint™.customised to meet the specific needs of your organisation.

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Auckland, 1141


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