Management Information: Everywhere and Nowhere
How to restructure the jumble of management information?
Step 1: What is the objective: who will use it for which decision?
Step 2: Based on the objective, determine the information need
Step 3: The Management Information will only be effective when presented in a certain way: How often? Which reference or benchmark? Which fashion?
Step 4: To create the Management Information, we need a well-defined process including responsibilities and tooling
2. Management Information: Everywhere and Nowhere βDimensions differ, however, the sum of the dimensions is not alignedβ βEach staff departments delivers its own report, but I like to know how these data is linkedβ βAll managers get the same information, for some useful, for others, it is just not what they needβ βMy organization has a lot of information, but does it really help my managers in taking better decisions?β βI use my monthly report for both strategic as operational decisions, however, it feels that I just need some more reflection now and thenβ βMy reference data to compare my actuals is not useful; budget is out of date and my peers are in a completely different situationβ βThe KPIs in my managers report differ significantly compared to my monthly reportβ How to restructure the jumble of management information?
3. Step 1: What is the objective: who will use it for which decision? Objectives Target Group / Users Group Management Unit managers Shared Service managers Project managers Account managers Product managers Etc. Type of Decisions Strategicdecisions Operational decisions Ad hoc or one-off decisions Etc. Reporting not customized to decision-making and users is not effective
51. Conclusion: The Management Information Framework will help you in creating a set of consistent decision-support information Realization Objectives Target Group / users Type of decisions Process Group Business Unit Strategic Opera-tional Define MI Prepare reports Business Line β¦ One-off β¦ Analysis Maintenance Responsibilities (RACI) Need Tooling Types of information Policy Statement Financial Delivery Data warehouse Microsoft office Sales HR ERP β¦ Risk β¦ Scope Client view Organization Effectiveness Project view β¦ Presentation Reference Frequency Status Continuously Weekly Past period Past year Online tool PowerPoint Confidential Validation Monthly Quarterly Budget Forecast Spread-sheet Graphs Level of detail Yearly Ad hoc Peers β¦ Dashboard Text
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