Interplan?: Driving Organisational Strategy Execution

Posted by samrojseo on November 24th, 2014

A brilliant strategy cannot be planned without taking into account the organisation's ability to execute it.

In today’s intensely competitive and financially unstable environment, an organisation’s ability to manage and measure its corporate performance and make informed decisions is critical.

A key flaw within many organisations is the ineffective and inefficient measurement of their operations, and forgetting to factor this into their decision making. As influential management consultant Peter Drucker said, “What gets measured gets done.”

By implementing a corporate performance management framework, and supporting this with a solution such as CAMMS interplan®, an organisation can align strategies, budgets, culture, practice, leadership and accountabilities to its vision and goals.

Corporate performance management done well can transform an organisation, making it ultimately more successful in its everyday activities and business processes, flowing through to the achievement of its highest level strategic goals.

interplan® is an integrated planning and performance management solution designed to bring together strategic, business and service level planning into a common performance monitoring and reporting framework.

CAMMS clients have experienced first-hand the benefits of aligning reporting with strategy through interplan®. City of Boorondararecognised that there was minimal execution of certain actions and tasks aligned with their adopted strategies and plans because the Council was not formally reporting on them all. Therefore, Council decided to adopt a system that linked strategic, corporate, business and service level planning to budgets, performance measures and reporting.

Through interplan®, organisation's can enjoy fully integrated planning across the board, streamlining the updating of planning and corporate performance data. interplan® provides organisations with a corporate view of departmental and group performance using balanced scorecards, dashboards and traffic light views. The system also allows flexible reporting at various accountability points in a number of different formats.

City Boroondara also selected interplan® as it gave the most appropriate functionality, offered great value for money and users found the solution to be easy-to-use and intuitive. Since the implementation of interplan®, the Council has seen an enormous improvement in the completion rate and timeframes for implementing their strategies. interplan® has completely revamped the reporting process of City of Boroondara.

"Boroondara has been fortunate to be awarded six consecutive gold awards from the Australasian Reporting Awards (for both private and public sectors) for our Annual Report," says Gail Power, Senior Business Analyst.

Designed by planning and performance experts, CAMMS unmatched product functionalities are flexible and adaptable.

Since inception, CAMMS has grown significantly (400% in the past seven years) to become an internationally recognised company with over 160 clients, 200 employees and offices located in Australia, New Zealand, North America, Asia and the United Kingdom.

CAMMS believes the development of a more flexible approach to performance measures and improved reporting analysis will provide long-term benefits to the sector and individual organisations.

CAMMS was founded in Australia in 1996 as a management consultancy, and has since grown to 150+ clients globally across a number of industries including public sector, health, financial services, education and utilities. The company designs and develops its own software in its Australian Headquarters and from its Global Service Delivery Centre in Sri Lanka, offering clients’ on-premise, on-demand (cloud) and mobile solutions. CAMMS has offices in five countries including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom. For more information go to: www.cammsgroup.com