Getting to Decisions and Executive Information

Mission (local, with links to higher, lateral, supplier, and customer missions)

Vision

Goal

Performance Measure (Indicator, Who Measures)

Strategy

Policy

Process

Control Points (Task Exit and Entry Criteria)

Transaction and Metric Collection/Processing

Data Element(s)

Table Fields

Field Entry Criteria

Field Values (Measured Facts)

Data Model(s) and Transformation

Data Warehouse/Marts

Data Analysis

Decision Support

Executive Information

Executive

System

Collection

and

Transaction

System

Analysis and

Presentation

System

Information Dimensions

1. Location (where)

2. Organization (who)

3. Work Unit (who)

4. Function (what, why)

5. Process (how)

6. Resource (with what)

7. Life Cycle State (when)

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Notes:

This diagram illustrates where database capabilities would be exercised as part of generating, analyzing, and presenting the pre-defined indicators (facts/metrics) needed to measure performance of a process, within a function’s policy, within a performance measure’s strategy.

The generalized Information Dimensions on the left correspond to the basic questions that can be asked about anything being measured.