Pathways

Use

Use Pathways to review descriptive statements representing a major component of a strategy as articulated at the highest level in the vision. Pathways reflect the path of an organization's internal processes, or the customer value proposition, or the path toward key financial goals. Pathways represent vertically linked groupings of objectives across multiple perspectives.

Pathways are phrases that are easy for the organization to remember and internalize. Pathways are an extension of themes, with the addition of the dimension of time.

Prerequisites

• Your strategy administrator has set up Pathways for this context.

• To view the plan line and actual line, your strategy administrator has implemented the plan line and actual line when setting pathways.

• To use the Actual line as a link, the scorecard administrator has created a scored context and the system administrator has set up your role to access the Scorecard tab.

Features

The Pathways tab has the following features:

• The name of each pathway appears above each curve. The dates below each curve represent the peak date for that pathway. The peak date is the date on which this pathway is being implemented.

• The actual and plan lines point out the progress of pathways at one point in time. The lines help to show the pathways in progress, and the extent to which they are in progress.

  • The actual line represents the progress toward the pathway in relation to its peak date and the current date. The actual line is like a “You are here” designation on a map. The actual line appears in red when progress is behind the current plan date. The actual line is shown in black directly on the plan line when the progress is exactly on mark with the current date. If the plan date and actual date are the same, the line would have a label On Plan. The actual line is shown in green when the progress is ahead of the current date.

    You can select the Actual link to go to the Scorecard  Context Details view, where you can review the status of the context.

  • The plan line represents today's date. If you select the Plan link, it displays the Strategy  Goal Diagram view.

• You can review details about a pathway by clicking the pathway text. An information box appears and shows the peak date, responsible user, and associated objectives. You can click an objective to go to its Scorecard  Objectives Detail view.

Activities

To display pathways, click Pathways in the Strategy tab.