Monday, July 15, 2013

LET'S ROCK! CHAPTER 4 : MEASURING THE SUCCESS OF STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

METRICS FOR STRATEGIC INITIATIVES



  • ·         What is a metric?


o   A metric is nothing more than a standard measure to assess performance in a particular area




  • ·         Metrics for measuring and managing strategic initiatives include:


o   Website metrics

o   Supply chain management (SCM) metrics

o   Customer relationship management (CRM) metrics

o   Business process reengineering (BPR) metrics

o   Enterprise resource planning (ERP) metrics




  • ·         Website metrics include:


o   Abandoned registrations

o   Abandoned shopping carts

o   Click-through

o   Conversion rate

o   Cost-per-thousand

o   Page exposures

o   Total hits

o   Unique visitors




  • ·         A supply chain is only as strong as its weakest link. The solution is to measure all key areas, which include:


o   Back order

o   Customer order promised cycle time

o   Customer order actual cycle time

o   Inventory replenishment cycle time

o   Inventory turns (inventory turnover)




  • ·         Customer relationship management metrics measure user satisfaction and interaction and include:


o   Sales metrics

o   Service metrics

o   Marketing metrics




  • ·         The balanced scorecard enables organizations to measure and manage strategic initiatives





  • ·         The balanced scorecard views the organization from four perspectives:


o   The learning and growth perspective

o   The internal business process perspective

o   The customer perspective

o   The financial perspective



THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS OF EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS IT METRICS

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  • Efficiency IT Metrics—Measures the performance of the IT system itself including throughput, speed, and availability

  • Effectiveness IT Metrics—Measures the impact IT has on business processes and activities including customer satisfaction, conversion rates, and sell-through
    increases

  • Efficiency IT metrics focus on technology and include:
    • Throughput
    • Transaction speed
    • System availability
    • Information accuracy
    • Web traffic
    • Response time



  • Effectiveness IT metrics focus on an organization’s goals, strategies, and objectives and include:
    • Usability
    • Customer satisfaction
    • Conversion rates
    • Financial



  • Security is an issue for any organization offering products or services over the Internet

  • It is inefficient for an organization to implement Internet security, since it slows down processing however, to be effective it must implement Internet security
    • Secure Internet connections must offer encryption and Secure Sockets Layers (SSL denoted by the lock symbol in the lower right corner of a browser)

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