A Unique Business Performance Management Philosophy!

 

What is SAM?
The Strategic Alignment Management System (SAM) comprises a process facilitated by a software system that enables you to:
  • Structure your business performance
  • Align your organization to it
  • Manage your organization in such a way as to improve your business performance.

 

What will SAM do for you?
  • STRUCTURE. SAM will help you structure your business strategy into a set of tangible business objectives that can be communicated clearly, understood and acted upon.
  • FOCUS. SAM will help you focus your organization on strategic business performance. Your strategy becomes the DNA of your organization.
  • INTERPRET AND SUMMARISE. SAM provides a succinct analysis on how your business is performing at any time.
  • EARLY WARNING. SAM enables you to identify problem areas immediately and to drill down to the root cause.
  • MEASURE. SAM helps you measure the performance of your people in terms of their strategic contribution. Every activity, element and individual of your business is aligned in accordance with your transformed strategic goals.
  • CONCENTRATE ENERGY. SAM helps everyone in the organization focus upon strategic achievement.
Why choose SAM?
  • It is so easy to use. Once you have defined your business objectives, you can model your focused organization in no time.
  • SAM is fundamentally sound and so flexible that it supports management practices such as Balanced Scorecard, EVA, MBO, Process Management, Functional Management, Theory of Constraints etc. It allows you to choose the best practice for your organization. You don't need to be enslaved by the latest fad-of-the-day-practice.
  • SAM enables you to manage organizational and people performance through one interface, using one integrated system.
  • SAM interfaces to any legacy system to collect information on performance.
  • It is a world-class product that compares favourably to the best available in the world, yet it is proudly South African. 
How does SAM work?

The SAM process comprises two modes:

Mode 1: Definition

Define your business performance objectives. Your business strategy is developed into tangible performance objectives, which you need to achieve in order to execute your strategy successfully. Every high-level objective is broken down into a number of lower level objectives. You can develop this hierarchy as far as you wish, if necessary right down to activities performed at the very lowest level in the organization.

Our experienced business strategists will guide and train you to run this process successfully.

You link the performance objectives, positions and employees. Finally, competencies are linked to terminal objectives and each performance objective is coupled with several competencies.

Mode 2: Monitoring

SAM measures the achievement of your strategic objectives. Your business strategy, translated into a hierarchy of performance objectives, is displayed as a colourful digital dashboard, showing your real-time performance measurements on each objective. In this way, when you identify a problem area on your management level (the colour of this objective turns red!), you can drill down to identify the root cause of the problem.

SAM monitors personal performance. The structure of your organization is presented on our digital dashboard. The work force is presented as a colour coded list depicting individual performance. The performance objectives contributing to each employee's performance can also be seen. When you identify a problem area on your management level (once again the colour of this objective turns red), you can drill down to identify the person responsible for the activity.

SAM further enables you to evaluate the individual's competencies in the light of those required to achieve the objectives. And finally you can plan the further development of your workforce for optimal business performance.