Manage Initiatives - Action Plans for the KPIs and Goals

Learn how to align initiatives (action plans), persons responsible, budgets with KPIs and business goals in BSC Designer.

Initiatives

Initiatives in BSC Designer

In the list of KPIs, there is a column Initiatives. Click on the button in this column to access initiatives for the KPI.

Learn more about the role of the initiatives in strategic planning.

Initiatives have the following properties:

  • Name of the initiative.
  • Description of the initiative.
  • Document list with the links to the detailed action plans.
  • Owner of the initiative.
  • Type of the item, such as "initiative", "success factor", "expected outcome", "rationale", or "hypothesis."

Process-related properties:

  • Status of the initiative (statuses can be configured on the Workflow tab in the account Settings).
  • Aligned KPI that indicates the progress of the initiative.
  • Timeline for the initiative (is used on dashboard charts).

Dependencies:

  • Depends on and Contributes to define the dependency between initiatives (used on the Gantt charts).
  • Context defines the contextual relationships of the initiative. Use the Add button to link the initiative by context with another initiative, goal, or indicator.
  • Documents section allows uploading strategy-related documents and linking to external resources.

Budget properties:

  • Budget assigned to the initiative.
  • Currency of the budget (currencies can be configured on the Organization > Currencies tab in the account Settings).
  • Actual expense.
  • Variance (the difference) between the budget and the actual.
  • Duration of the initiative.
If an initiative has budget and progress information, the software will show:
  • Earned Value = Total Budget * Progress, %
  • Cost Variance = Earned Value - Budget Actual