Traditional performance improvement methods look at cost to maximize profitability… They only look at traditional internal financial measures or ratios, such as debt-to-equity or inventory turnover. More advanced organizations directly connect their internal systems for management decisions. However, they rarely have all the data in one place. They may have many dashboards that don’t tell the overall story and are difficult to use for decision making.

Leading-edge businesses combine traditional measures with new intentions, information sources and insights to create value and wealth in a rapidly changing world. We call this performance management that is Environment-Aware^TM. These businesses are directly connected with community and industry measures. They are companies that compare themselves against a plan and their environments. Making your numbers while losing market share is not winning.