Strategic Performance Management

Turning Strategy into Reality

In many companies, the process of developing strategy does not always translate into a reality that can be planned, executed and measured. The overall planning, budgeting, and forecasting approach is poorly positioned in many companies and not fully aligned with strategic intent. While managing costs and meeting financial objectives are important, it is critical to move beyond the basics of reporting in order to develop a performance management system that can be used to drive results. To turn vision and strategy into a plan that can be executed and refined over time, reacting to the many real-world challenges faced day in and day out.

To achieve this objective requires not only a strategic framework that can articulated through key performance indicators or KPIs, but also an enabling technology capability that will provide the ability to measure, drive and understand business performance.  At Horvath, our unique roots at the crossroads of academia, finance and accounting along with our deep understanding of technology, allow us to support you in solving this problem. 

We can help you develop your strategy and express it in measurable and quantifiable ways.  This in turn leads to understanding how to establish the frameworks an systems required to drive results.  Whether done in your ERP or via third party solutions, we have the business and IT knowledge to help navigate the many choices as you develop your solution.  Finally, we can help you arrive at your destination by supporting you throughout implementation.  At Horvath, we can turn your strategy into a reality. 

Enormous potential

Performance Management done properly can unlock enormous potential.

Whether starting from scratch or redesigning an existing system, we can help with your planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes.

  • Significant reductions in related costs of  30 to 50% – are realistically possible
  • Optimal allocation of company resources so the smartest people in your organization can focus on developing strategy not spreadsheets and reports
  • Anticipation of market developments and changing requirements with the ability to use comprehensive scenarios, digital twins, artificial intelligence machine learning and and predictive analytics to measure and drive performance

Throughout all of this, we bring a business oriented view that fully understands the enabling technologies and capabilities. 

Core expertise in planning

Taking your planning process to the next level

Our core expertise can help you redesign an improve your planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes. Our consultants  have extensive experience gained from numerous projects that we document regularly via publications and case studies. We also host events and conference working with key partners to advance the thinking on this topic and our labs and offshore centers are constantly exploring the latest trends and technologies.