By now you may already have a performance management philosophy in place for implementing strategy, be it Balanced Scorecard, Value Based Management, EFQM, Baldrige or Six Sigma. But what you may not have is a unique and compelling strategic management system to support this framework allowing you to manage activities across your entire enterprise. A system that enables everyone in your organisation to focus, communicate and collaborate on strategy from a single vantage point ... and turns it into action.

If your company is, like most, competing in today's global economy, simply monitoring financial and operational performance isn't enough. You need to communicate a strategic vision to your employees and empower them to execute it proactively, before events occur that demand a reaction. You need to draw upon your corporate knowledge to make decisions based on hard facts - not assumptions - to stay ahead instead of merely surviving. You need to analyse key performance indicators that generate shareholder value, gauge performance and drive behavior based on business strategies.

SAS Strategic Performance Management captures your corporate strategy - no matter which management philosophy you choose - and takes it further by helping you integrate, distribute and analyse enterprise-wide information and then act on it - ahead of the competition. You see the causes and effects of your strategy. You identify true sources of business failure and isolate best practices that lead to success. In short, you get a strategic heads-up to keep you on course.

Strategic Performance Management includes:

• A map to define corporate direction.
  One that molds technology to accommodate strategy. You'll get different views of key internal processes with documented strategic objectives, measures, targets and initiatives. Use the flexible diagramming tool to map out your strategy, show process flows, design organisation structures and cascade what is important to all parts of the organisation in the way that you want to do it.
• A compass to measure and manage progress toward strategic goals.
  One that combines structured information (data) with unstructured information (text) to give a complete cause-and- effect picture of relationships between internal processes. And we'll deliver this compass in a Web environment - with hyperlinks, simple traffic lighting and management of complex e-mail threads to provide a simpler path to viewing key performance indicators.
• A knowledge base for exploring new opportunities.
  This feeds all applications that support business performance measurements and speeds up changes to the strategy and its effects.