Corporate Performance Management

Background

PwC’s Performance Management model is a holistic approach that helps you better manage information and enhance your performance by aligning your financial, operational and regulatory metrics. Our framework can help you better understand and exploit the relationships that exist (or should exist) between strategy, planning and operational processes. It is designed to assist management teams resolve operational and financial "pain points" as well as to successfully exploit growth opportunities.

Our framework provides a structured roadmap that can be adopted at a pace that is suitable for organisations for implementing enterprise-wide performance management. Our integrated approach helps you understand and make use of the business levers that create value, whether they are defined as earnings growth and capital appreciation or "value for money".

Our offering

Our services include such areas as:

  • Cost analytics - activity-based costing, profitability optimisation, driver-based costing and hybrid. methodologies. We analyse, design, deploy and maintain costing solutions that cater for enterprise-wide and narrower business functional needs.
  • Strategy development and articulation - proven techniques and tools to help your management develop and communicate your organisation's strategy as well as track strategy execution.
  • Planning and reporting optimisation - leading practices, methodologies and models to help you improve the reliability and process efficiency of historical and prospective information reporting, including value-driver based planning, driver-based budgeting, chart of accounts design and rolling forecasts.
  • Dashboards, scorecards and KPI development - improved financial and operational effectiveness and efficiencies through appropriate alignment of targeted metrics that measure the achievement of your strategic and tactical objectives including performance from customer/supplier and operational, organisational, financial and employee engagement perspectives.
  • Cost reduction.
  • Performance management tool deployment - evaluate, design and optimise performance management tools and data models supporting planning, analytics and reporting.
  • Scenario modelling – cause-and-effect, rules-based decision support tools and methodologies that allow you to forecast the outcome of a decision before it is taken.

How we can help our clients

PwC’s Corporate Performance Management (CPM) framework helps companies and public sector entities develop an integrated CPM approach that supports the design and implementation of management processes and systems that drive accountabilities, decision support and operational execution excellence. Recognising that CPM efforts typically start as targeted improvement efforts, we help align CPM efforts to link strategies, metrics and financial planning with ongoing operational reporting and execution.