Strategy 
As managing goals requires more than simply displaying current objectives, the interactive strategy component helps provide the often-missing motivational aspect of strategy. Consisting of pathways, process and goal diagrams, and cause and effect, the strategy component makes the strategic plan become more than just a static impenetrable document by providing a collaborative environment to visualize, discuss and update goals.
Goal diagrams and pathways help motivate employees and foster a sense of ownership by communicating the organization’s vision and mission, as well as the underlying steps to achieving them. Goal diagrams are designed to make strategic objectives an integral part of every employee’s daily work plan, telling the story of how an organization, working in unison, can achieve its mission and vision. The goal diagrams in SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Management enable drill-down into supporting initiatives, including in-depth descriptions of each objective and its importance, providing the critical link between strategy and operations. Linkage to other associated documentation preserves the evolution and planning process of the strategy for future use.
Pathways provide a visualization of the progressive stages in realizing the long-term vision of the organization, and provide an understanding the phases in which particular objectives play primary contributory roles.
Prerequisites
Your strategy administrator has set up one or more of these subtabs for your context: the Goal Diagram subtabs, the Themes or Pathways subtab, and the Cause & Effect subtab.
Features
You can do the following in the Strategy component:
Review themes or pathways, which depict the progressive stages in realizing an organization’s long term vision and provide an understanding of the phases in which particular objectives play primary roles. By applying targets for desired performance, pathways allow managers to directly visualize how well the organization is progressing towards realizing its vision.
Review goal diagrams, process diagrams, and other goal summaries, which allow for organizations to intuitively visualize their strategic plan.
Goal diagrams enable collaboration between different functional and strategic business groups. Documenting and publishing the strategy — even before KPIs have been defined and operational systems integrated — helps motivate the workforce and lay the foundation for successful adoption.
The goal diagram subtabs may be named Goal Diagram or they may have different names if your strategy administrator changed them. This online Help uses the term Goal Diagram to represent any tab depicting interactive goal diagrams with optional scoring, process diagrams, and goal summaries.
Review the Cause & Effect diagram, which provides a better understanding of how to achieve overall goals by illustrating which objectives play primary, secondary, or tertiary roles in meeting other objectives.
This online Help describes all subtabs of the Strategy component although you may only see a subset of the subtabs depending on your setup.