Scorecarding

This chapter provides information on Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. It describes scorecards and explains how to work with them to describe and communicate your business strategy. It provides details on the scorecard objects that you work with, including vision and mission statements, perspectives, objectives, initiatives, strategy trees, strategy maps, cause & effect maps, custom views, and watchlists.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• "What Is Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management?"

• "What Is a Balanced Scorecard?"

• "What Is the Scorecard Editor?"

• "What Are Scorecard Objects?"

• "How Do I Create a Scorecard?"

• "About Scorecard Privileges and Permissions"

• "Using the Edit and View Modes in the Scorecard Editor"

• "Creating Scorecards"

• "Opening or Editing Scorecards"

• "Viewing Overview Information"

• "About the Point of View Area"

• "Setting Up the Point of View Controls"

• "What Are Vision Statements?"

• "Defining Vision Statements"

• "What Are Mission Statements?"

• "Defining Mission Statements"

• "What Are Perspectives?"

• "Creating Custom Perspectives"

• "What Are Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)?"

• "What Are Objectives?"

• "Creating Objectives"

• "What Are Initiatives?"

• "Creating Initiatives"

• "Contacting Business Owners"

• "About Comments"

• "Working with Comments"

• "Understanding Initiative or Objective Performance Assessment"

• "Defining Assessment Mappings for Scorecards"

• "Assigning Weights to Child Objectives, Initiatives and KPIs"

• "About Status Overrides"

• "Working with Status Overrides"

• "What Are Strategy Trees?"

• "Creating Strategy Trees"

• "What Are Strategy Maps?"

• "Creating Strategy Maps"

• "What Are Cause & Effect Maps?"

• "Creating Cause & Effect Maps"

• "Understanding Watchlists"

• "What Are KPI Watchlists?"

• "Working with KPI Details"

• "What Are Smart Watchlists?"

• "Creating Smart Watchlists"

• "What Are Custom Views?"

• "Creating Custom Views"

• "Opening Scorecard Objects"

• "Editing Scorecard Objects"

• "Deleting Scorecard Objects"

• "Adding Scorecard Objects to Dashboards"

• "Troubleshooting"