This document discusses aligning organizational performance to goals and objectives. It identifies common obstacles such as cultural resistance, lack of information sharing, and accountability. It also outlines key areas of performance alignment including business units, workforce, financials, and resources. Specific steps are provided to align each of these areas including defining goals, identifying processes, and establishing performance measures.

1. Aligning Performance To
Organizational Goals and Objectives

2. Common Obstacles to Performance
Alignment…
• Organizational culture resists
performance management efforts
• Departments don’t share information
• Lack of vendor integration
• Insufficient information
• Access to information
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Lack of accountability

3. The Performance Lifecycle
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4. Linking Corporate Strategy to Executive,
Managerial, and Individual Goals
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5. 4 Performance Alignment Areas
• Division/departmental performance
alignment
• Workforce performance alignment
• Financial performance alignment
• Resource performance alignment
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6. Aligning Business Units to Organizational
Objectives
Define organizational goals Organizational Mission & Goals
Identify how each business unit
contributes toward reaching
organizational goals
Information Other Business
Human Resources Accounting
Develop strategy to achieve goals Technology Units
within each business unit
Identify bottlenecks and improve
inter-connected processes among Processes Processes Processes
business units
Align employee performance to
maximize business unit support in
reaching organizational goals
Ensure that technology investments
support organizational goals Technology
Optimize system performance,
utilize business intelligence,
automate reporting capabilities
Group
Server
Develop performance measures Decisions
that drive decision making and Knowledge
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7. Aligning Workforce Performance to
Organizational Objectives
Functions within workforce performance
management include:
• Recruit and Hire Management
• Compensation Management
• Incentive Management
• Goals Management
• Learning Management
• Competency Management
• Performance Measurement
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8. Aligning Workforce Performance to
Organizational Objectives (cont)
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9. Aligning Financial Performance to
Organizational Objectives
Steps to Maximize Financial Performance:
3.Identify which divisions within your organization are most
responsible for carrying out the success of each metric.
4.Examine the processes for each those divisions
5.Redefine the processes that are out of date, or those which
tools exist for automation or process improvement
6.Baseline the performance for the processes that have the
most effect on the outcome of the financial metric
7.Set performance measures for those processes and
monitor how the improvement of those processes affects the
overall financial metric over time
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10. Aligning Financial Performance to
Organizational Objectives
Common Financial Metrics
• Return on Net Assets Ratio
• Net Operating Revenues Ratio
• Viability Ratio
• Debt Burden Ratio
• Primary Reserve Ratio
• Customer Profitability Metrics
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11. Additional Financial Metrics –
Financial Performance Ratios
Financial Performance Ratios
Return on Net Assets = Change in Net Assets / Total Beginning Net
Assets
Net Operating Revenues Ratio = Income before Other Items /
Adjusted Net Operating Revenues
Viability Ratio = Expendable Net Assets / Total Debt
Debt Burden Ratio = Debt Service / Total Expenses
Primary Reserve Ratio = Expendable net assets / Total Expenses
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12. Return on Net Assets = Change in Net Assets / Total Beginning Net
Assets
Net Operating Revenues Ratio Metrics –
Additional Financial = Income before Other Items /
Liquidity Ratios
Adjusted Net Operating Revenues
Viability Ratio = Expendable Net Assets / Total Debt
Debt Burden Ratio = Debt Service / Total Expenses
Primary Reserve Ratio = Expendable net assets / Total Expenses
Liquidity Ratios
Current Ratio = Current Assets / Current Liabilities
Quick Ratio = (Current Assets – Inventory) / Current Liabilities
Cash Ratio = Cash & Equivalents / Liabilities
Activity Ratios
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13. Primary Reserve Ratio = Expendable net assets / Total Expenses
Liquidity Ratios
Additional Financial Metrics – Activity
Current Ratio = Current Assets / Current Liabilities
Ratios
Quick Ratio = (Current Assets – Inventory) / Current Liabilities
Cash Ratio = Cash & Equivalents / Liabilities
Activity Ratios
Total Asset Turnover = Sales / Total Assets
Fixed Asset Turnover = Sales / (Net, Plant, Property, Equip)
Capital Turnover = Sales / (Interest Bearing Debt + Stockholder’s
Equity)
Accts Receivable Turnover = Sales / Accounts Receivable
Accts Receivable Days Outstanding = 365 days / (Accts Receivable
Turnover)
Inventory Turnover = Cost of Goods Sold / Inventory
Inventory Days Outstanding = 365 days / Inventory Turnover
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14. Capital Turnover = Sales / (Interest Bearing Debt + Stockholder’s
Equity) H
Accts Receivable Turnover = Sales / Accounts Receivable H
Additional Days OutstandingMetrics/ – Receivable
Accts Receivable
Financial = 365 days (Accts
Leverage Ratios
Turnover) L
Inventory Turnover = Cost of Goods Sold / Inventory H
Inventory Days Outstanding = 365 days / Inventory Turnover L
Leverage Ratios
Debt to Equity = Total Liabilities / Stockholder’s Equity L
Financial Leverage = Total Assets / Stockholder’s Equity L
Capitalization Ratio = (STD + CPLTD + LTD) / (Interest Bearing
Debt + Stockholder’s Equity) L
Interest Coverage = (PTI + Interest Expense) / Interest Expense H
Profitability Ratios
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15. Additional Financial Metrics –
Profitability Ratios
Profitability Ratios
Net Margin = Net Income / Sales
Pre-tax Margin = Pre-Tax Income / Sales
Operating Margin = Earnings Before Interest and Taxes / Sales
Gross Margin = (Sales – COGS) / Sales
Return on Assets = Net Income / Total Assets
Return on Net Assets = Net Income / Net Assets
Return on Capital = Net Income / (Interest Bearing Debt +
Stockholders’ Equity)
Return on Equity = Net Income / Stockholders’ Equity
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16. Additional Financial Metrics
Market Ratios
Price Earnings = Stock Price / EPS
Market to Book = Market Capitalization / Stockholder’s Equity
Dividend Yield = Dividend / Stock Price
t (t-1) (t-1)
Shareholder Return = ((P - P ) + D) / P
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17. Aligning IT/Systems to Organizational
Objectives
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18. Questions to Ask Regarding IT Strategic
Alignment
• Which of your business unit’s processes support the
organization’s mission the most? Do the metrics we
report on drive those processes?
• Are you satisfied with the current performance
throughout your organization?
• Do our metrics address the company's critical needs?
• Do our reports provide the required information to
make business decisions? Do they identify areas of
misalignment?
• Do IT initiatives appear to be prioritized appropriately?
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19. Common Pitfalls to Avoid When
Aligning Performance to Strategy
• Inflexibility
• Insufficient vertical alignment
• Insufficient horizontal alignment
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