Case 1 1. What are the business benefits of Business Sufficiency, Business Sphere, and Decision Cockpits?
The business benefits of Business Sufficiency are that it can tell you about the market share and other performances metrics six to twelve months into the future. It is based on a series of analytic models showing what occurring in business right now, such as, shipment, sales, and market shares why it’s happening and what actions P&G can take. Business Sphere is interactive and can reveal insight, trends, and opportunities for P&G’s leaders and prompt them to ask focused business actions that can be addressed with data on the spot. Thousands of algorithms and analytical models aggregate data, organizing it by country, territory, products line, store level, and other categories, and monitor the trends like response to advertising and consumer consumption within individual regions and countries. This program is only used by upper P&G managers and executives. Decision Cockpits are dashboards that display easy to read charts illustrating business status and trends. It has started to give more employees access to the same common data sources. It’s the same principle as Business Sphere, but is extended across the business. These cockpits feature automated alerts when important events occur. One of the major goals on the cockpit was to eliminate time spent by the employees debating the validity of competing versions of data found in emails, spreadsheets, letters, and reports. 2. What people, organization, and technology issues had to be addressed when implementing Business Sufficiency, Business Sphere, And Decision Cockpits?
Some issues with people could be less communication between employees. With systems that will find and organize all the data it makes it so employees no longer have to get into groups and collaborate. Those collaborations can