The CEO Lament in the Business Intelligence and Analytics Market
We did not see it coming. All my Competitive Intelligence and products’ analytics pointed North while my Business as a whole (in comparison to new competitors and the Best-In-Class in multiple industries) headed South.
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1. SIMMETHOD™
From Predictive Analytics Software
to Predictive Outcomes and C-Level
Risk Alerts
A new way to measure and predict
Corporate Risk and Performance and
fend-off current and future competitors
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3. SIMMETHOD™
Was IBM’s Performance Predictable?
• “IBM on April missed Wall Street estimates
for the first time since 2005 and started to
laying off thousands of employees” Business
Insider
• “Where we have not transformed rapidly
enough, we struggled. We have to step up at
all levels” IBM’s CEO Virginia Rometty
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IBM’s 2012 Strategy/Execution Performance Predictive Index
underperformed the Best-In-Class average including a negative
score in the HR Index and low scores in the Sales Index.
4. SIMMETHOD™
Was Microsoft’s Performance Predictable?
• “Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: I'm Not
Happy About Windows Sales. We're not
selling as many Windows devices as we
want to”. Business Insider
• “Say what you will about Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer, but he isn't in denial about
what's happening to Windows”. Business
Insider
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Although Microsoft was a top 25% in 2012, weakness in
the Sales and Overhead indices triggered a drop in the
2013 Strategy/Execution Performance Predictive Index
and a drop to a top 50% position in 2013
5. SIMMETHOD™
Was Baidu’s Performance Predictable?
• “Baidu Shares Jump 14% After Hours On
Upbeat 3Q Outlook Thanks To Mobile
Advertising Momentum”.
• “We made solid progress in the second
quarter, adding a record 58,000 online active
customers,” said Baidu CEO Robin Li in a
statement“. TechCrunch
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Baidu has achieved a TOP 10 position in the 2013 SIMMETHOD
Strategy/Execution Performance Predictive Index
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Was Amazon’s Performance Predictable?
• “Amazon’s Q2 Disappoints, Sales Up 22
Percent To $15.7B, Net Loss Of $7M”.
• “Operating income decreased 26 percent to
$79 million in the second quarter, compared
with $107 million in second quarter 2012”.
• “Bezos didn’t address why Amazon missed on
expectations for the quarter, but perhaps this
will be revealed in the call”. TechCrunch
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Amazon’s 2012 negative profit and overhead indices kept its 2012 and 2013
Strategy/Execution Performance Predictive Index at below B-I-C average
7. The Way We Measure Corporate
Performance Is Broken
Why do
Businesses
fail?
Blockbuster
Borders
Circuit City
Mervyns
Wachovia
Washington
Mutual
Linen n’
Things
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8. The CEO Lament in the Business
Intelligence and Analytics Market
• We did not see it coming. All my
Competitive Intelligence and
products’ analytics pointed North
while my Business as a whole (in
comparison to new competitors
and the Best-In-Class in multiple
industries) headed South.
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9. It is hard to prevent what you do not
know!
This is why SIMMETHOD created the Strategy
and Execution League Table and C-Level Risk
Alerts to:
• Measure and predict the risk and
performance of your Business in relation to
your competitors and the Best-In-Class across
multiple industries and
• Reduce the risk associated with your C-Level
decisions.
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10. SIMMETHOD™
Risk and Opportunities Alerts
• The SIMMETHOD algorithm reviews 1000’s of
Businesses and stockholders decisions across
Business Sectors and builds Industry-Agnostic
indices in order to identify, measure,
correlate and predict your strengths,
weaknesses, risks and opportunities against
your current and potential future
competitors from inside or outside your
industry.
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11. SIMMETHOD™
Risk and Opportunities Alerts
The SIMMETHOD algorithm selects the Best-In-Class
performers in Technology, Software, Social Media, HR
and Business Services and produces
Risk/Opportunities Alerts specially designed for:
• C-Level,
• HR,
• Finance, and
• Sales and Marketing
showing trends, risk and Best-In-Class profiles and
competitive intelligence in graphical and metrics
forms linked to a constantly updated Best-In-Class
Metrics Database.
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12. SIMMETHOD™
Risk and Opportunities Alerts
SIMMETHOD receives over 100,000
Business readers per year, has been Hot
on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook 35
times and selected by Business Week as
Top Source of Performance
Management Information.
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14. SIMMETHOD League Table 2013
Business services, Technology, Software, Social Media, HR
Best-in-Class Top Ten
NHN, Visa, Apple,
Mastercard, Checkpoint,
Baidu, Infosys, Netease,
Google, Yahoo
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15. SIMMETHOD League Table 2013
Business services, Technology, Software, Social Media, HR
Best-In-Class Top 25%
NHN, Visa, Apple, Mastercard,
Checkpoint, Baidu, Infosys, Netease,
Google, Yahoo, Cognizant, Priceline,
Tata, Cielo, Intuit, AOL, Paychex,
Wipro, VMware
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16. SIMMETHOD League Table 2012
Business services, Technology, Software, Social Media, HR
Best-In-Class Top 25%
Apple, Cielo, Priceline, Checkpoint,
Google, Teradata, Infosys, SAP,
Microsoft, Aggreko, Oracle, Ebay,
Tata, Paychex, Vmware, Moody’s
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Top 25% in 2013Top 50% in
2013
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Business services, Technology, Software, Social Media, HR
Best-In-Class Top 50%
Aggreko, Accenture, Experian,
Dassault, HCL, Moody’s, Oracle, Citrix,
LinkedIn, Microsoft, Amadeus, SAP,
H&R Block, DKSH, IBM, Salesforce,
Amazon, Ebay, Teradata
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18. SIMMETHOD League Table 2012
Business services, Technology, Software, Social Media, HR
Best-In-Class Top 50%
Citrix, BMC, Intuit, Cognizant,
Amadeus, Wipro, Yahoo, Dassault,
Amazon, World Fuel, Autodesk,
Salesforce, Groupon, LinkedIn, IBM
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Top 25% in 2013Top 50% in 2013
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Business services, Technology, Software, Social Media, HR
Mid range score
Adobe, Brambles, Thomas Cook, Verisk
Analytics, EMC, Automatic Data,
Facebook, Honeywell, Randstad,
Compal, HP, Western Union, Quanta,
Alliance, United Technology, Innolux
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20. SIMMETHOD League Table 2012
Business services, Technology, Software, Social Media, HR
Mid range score
Accenture, Alliance, CSC, Adobe,
Robert Half, SGS, CA, Brambles,
Gartner, ADP, Experian, Dell,
Forrester, CGI, Thomas Cook
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Top 50% in 2013
21. SIMMETHOD League Table 2013
Business services, Technology, Software, Social Media, HR
Low range score
CA, Fiserv, Sodexco, Tui, Netapp,
Manpower, Dell, CSC, Fidelity
National, Adecco, Symantec,
Capgemini, Atos, Expedia,
American Express
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22. SIMMETHOD League Table 2012
Business services, Technology, Software, Social Media, HR
Low range score
Apollo, Bunzl, Capital Group,
Adecco, Liberty International,
Misys, Fiserv, Symantec, Fidelity,
HP, Manpower, Sodexo, Tui,
Randstad, Capgemini
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Mid-range score in
2013
24. Disrupting the Way we Measure
Corporate Risk and Performance
There are three main problems:
1. The lack of a single industry-agnostic scale to
measure and predict Corporate
strategy/execution (competitive advantage)
leads to erroneous and inconsistent C-Level
decision-making
2. Silos-analytics lead to erroneous C-level
decisions based on many versions of the truth
3. Lack of C-Level risk and performance visibility
accentuated by inward-looking industry metrics
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25. Silos Analytics Lead to Many Versions
of the Truth and Erroneous Decisions
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26. Towards a Single Index to Measure
Competitive Advantage
• Comparing the elephant legs or ears against
peers’ legs or ears leads to incorrect
conclusions (This is what traditional
benchmarking does)
• The strategy/execution or competitive
advantage of a Business can only be assessed
holistically and it is not the sum of its parts
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27. Towards a Single Index to Measure
Competitive Advantage
SIMMETHOD’s industry-agnostic algorithm holistically
finds the Best-In-Class Businesses in each Business
Sector and only then calculates a Best-In-Class and a
low performance profile. These Best-In-Class and Low
Performance profiles are used as a GPS to:
• Alert you of your risk and opportunities within and
outside your Business Sector,
• Predict your performance against your peers and the
Best-In-Class across multiple Business Sectors and
• Fend-off current and future competitors coming from
inside and outside your industry.
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28. Towards a Holistic Index of Corporate &
Value-Chain Performance and Risk
• Currently, there is no single
industry-agnostic scale to measure
and predict Business or Value-Chain
strategy/execution (competitive
advantage).
• Conventional Benchmarking
measures silo by silo (ratio by ratio)
and then adds up the sum of the
parts but the problem is that (a star
team is not the same as a team of
stars)
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29. A Star Team (Strategy/Execution) Is
Different Than a Team of Stars
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• Unlike conventional analytics
that measures 11 players
independently, SIMMETHOD’s
algorithm finds the Best-In-
Class teams first and only then
prepares a predictive C-Level
and functional profile of the
Best-In-Class players
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Lack of Business and Value-Chain
Leading Indicators and Risk Alerts
Company
view
SIMMETHOD™
industry view
indicators &
alerts
SIMMETHOD™
value-chain
view, leading
performance
indicators &
alerts
SIMMETHOD™
global market
view leading
risk/
performance
indicators &
alerts database
Inward-
Looking
Analytics
Maximum
Risk,
Minimum
Visibility
Value-Chain and Market
Leading Indicators and Risk
Alerts
Minimum Risk and Maximum
Visibility
31. The Leading Indicators and Risk Alerts
of the Best-In-Class
Why do you need Industry Agnostic Leading
indicators and Risk/Opportunities Alerts?
• In an interdependent Market (like the Planets
in the solar system) your current and future
risk and performance are impacted by an
ecosystem of constantly changing
competitors coming from inside
and outside your Industry.
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32. Your Gap to SIMMETHOD’s Best-In-Class
Determines Your Risk and Performance
Your current
position against
the B-I-C and
competitors
Gap to B-I-C in
your industry
Gap to
Competitors in
a range of
industries
Gap to B-I-C in a
range of
industries
Your original
targets against
SIMMETHOD
Database
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33. SIMMETHOD’s Disclaimer
• The purpose of the SIMMETHOD
Strategy/Execution Performance Predictive
Index, Reports and Risk/Opportunities Alerts
is not to make a Business right or wrong but
rather contribute towards the understanding
of management actions in comparison to
industry peers and the SIMMETHOD Best-In-
Class.
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34. SIMMETHOD’s Disclaimer
• SIMMETHOD’s League Table, Strategy/
Execution Performance Predictive indices,
correlations, metrics and risk/opportunities
alerts do not seek to be exact but rather
serve as a conduit to ask better questions
and seek better answers in the performance
improvement, risk minimization and value
creation journey.
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35. SIMMETHOD’s Disclaimer
• Sometimes, the value of a metric in itself
does not provide the greatest of insights, but
valuable actionable knowledge is gained
from its ability to provide a trend or a
common comparison yardstick with other
Businesses across a range of industries.
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36. SIMMETHOD’s Disclaimer
• This report is for informational purpose only
(with management rather than financial
information) and SIMMETHOD shall not be
liable for the contents of the report or
risk/opportunities alerts or for any damage
incurred or alleged to be incurred to any of
the Businesses included in the Reports as a
result of its content
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37. Jorge Oscar Tabacman
jtabacman@gmail.com
Twitter ID: SIMMETHOD
SIMMETHOD™
A New Way to Measure and Predict
the Risk and Performance of Your
Business and Alert You of New
Threats and Opportunities
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