Strategy Bridge Builder

Biggest Challenges Today Can Be Your Greatest Strengths Tomorrow

Do you have a "strategy chasm" in your organization? Don't feel alone. Consider the following:

• Only 30% of strategic initiatives are successfully executed
• 80% of major system investments don't deliver the intended results
• Of those initiatives that are successful most are implemented inefficiently
• CEOs rightly feel that the process of implementing is too slow

If you are willing, you could tools and practices to enable you to make strategy execution your greatest competitive strength.

Address the Strategy Chasm Head-On

You need the right tools. Strategy Bridge Builder helps to you address the strategy chasm problem head-on. You can create focus, passion, and speed up the execution of your initiatives.

• We have been in the business of optimizing strategy development and execution in top organizations for over 25 years. Our software and services have been carefully designed to help you create alignment and a highly focused, passionate, team-based workforce.

Strategy Bridge Builder Software

Strategy Bridge Builder, aka Y-Change, has been refined over a 12 year period, with signficant input from respected executives committed to addressing the "strategy gap" head on. What can it do for you? It can:

Create strategy alignment

• Everyone knows how they tie in to the bigger picture. People, organizations, projects and portfolios are all aligned to the goals and strategies of the organization.

Accelerate progress

• View real-time scorecards status updates of all plans in one place. When people, teams and organizations know that their work matters, is visible, and ties to bigger picture, politics takes a back sit to progress.

Foster agility

• As people, projects and organizations start developing using agile principles, they learn and adjust. With Strategy Bridge Builder change approvals, coordination, alignment and communication are streamlined and automated.

Strategy Bridge Builder^TM Feature Highlights

• Cascade the strategies throughout the organization
• Capture strategic, tactical and performance data in one place
• Review and manage the real-time performance
• Use existing reports or report wizard to generate with the report wizard
• Export reports to excel, word, pdf

Real-Time Reports

• Results will flow from top management through the organization, showing the tactics, timelines, and action items.
• There are unlimited reports, with customized filters that can be generated with the report wizard.
• Reports have on-line editing of the data ideal for monthly or quarterly reviews and updates.
• Dashboards can be easily created, saved, emailed and exported to your favorite desktop application.

People & Organizations

• Everyone has a home page in Strategy Bridge Builder where they can see their tasks, plans, portfolios, projects and progress reports
• Connect with employees and teams through real-time threaded discussions, status reporting, actions and meetings
• Integrated with MSOutlook allowing for for seamless sending of automatic emails for selected timeline, deliverables, action items , meetings and phase gate events.
• Documents can be stored in repository with check-in, version control and key word search, or can be connected to existing applications such as internal file share drives and MS Sharepoint

Portfolios

• Select, plan, manage and track a portfolio's lifecycle from idea to execution
• Setup and track the stages of a portfolio
• Rules engine for quick phase gate approvals, emails, and prioritizing of projects
• View portfolio metrics of their portfolio, as well as (what) the strategies they are supporting

Projects

• Enable your company to align, track, manage, and account for decentralized projects
• Gantt charts, risks, deliverables, phase status, heat maps and custom dashboards allow for companywide visibility and expeditious reporting.
• Organizing projects around project types (e.g., six sigment, software development) allows for customization of information specific to the needs of each organization or project

Create Focused Synergy

What happens when an airplane flies off-course? The further you fly, the bigger the gap gets. You have many moving parts in your organization. Are they all flying on-course together?

What if everyone in your organization were passionately energied, focused and working together in a face-paced, agile manner? What if everyone could dynamically track all of the efforts relating to the goals and strategies (e.g., business units, projects, portfolios, peoples) of your organization?

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