Enterprise Performance Management from SAP

Good post by Laura Mikovsky on Enterprise Performance management from SAP.  A classic need for the enterprise.   A typical dashboard BI application.   How are various parts of my enterprise performing, and how do I normalize these results with other measures like the economy?    You could take this further to measure other causal interactions,  both inside the organization and outside.  The post goes on to mention how some of their new in memory techniques and data availability can make these measures real time.  Useful in some industries. 

My suggestion: Take this a step forward and construct a company performance leader board, then use game dynamics to create in enterprise competition between, say, sales districts.  Provide automatic causal suggestions as to why the leader is ahead.   With cautions about the likelihood of people trying to game the measures.  We experimented with something like this well before this kind of sophisticated technology was possible, and data was far less available, as far back as the early 1980s.