Pharos Enterprise Benchmarking software: the major upgrade
The Pharos Enterprise Benchmarking project had emerged as a result of implementations of UNIDO “Pharos – Business Navigator” software in industrial upgrading programmes by UNIDO and EC in different countries for 1997 – 2008. The Project facilitates easy access of private and public organizations to innovative ICT applications and services in performance management and benchmarking of results for variety of stakeholders. It transforms concepts of business analytics, intelligence and performance improvement to new perspectives by introducing a new powerful, agile yet easy to use integrated information tools for measuring, monitoring and benchmarking of organizational processes. The new vision of application simplicity and personal comfort facilitates best practices in improving of results in daily applications, business culture for sustainable developing, its sharing among employees and employers.
The software provides unified platform for management methods and processes for improving results by setting and evaluating goals, its understanding, optimizing and aligning daily activities to business targets for organizational, departmental and individual performance. The design, interface, references and learning support are implemented with special focus to assist personnel of industrial small and medium size industrial enterprises as well as service oriented private and public institutions. The project is implemented with new approach to learning, training, supporting creative entrepreneurship and social involvement facilitating exchange of knowledgeand unified benchmarking procedures between stakeholder groups. The software incorporates functionality of Pharos-Business Navigator (1996-2007), FIT, Produce Plus and BEST.
The features
Unified (”core”) set of Key Performance Indicators for industrial enterprises including financial, manufacturing, operational, strategic, social and environmental (energy, water, waste) indexes based on common enterprise data
Typical sets of KPIs for public organizations such as municipalities, etc.
Build-in editors for customized indicators for monitoring of locally formulated tasks and business processes
Multi-criteria focused views to organizational activities, results and business processes by combinations of necessary indicators
Advanced, unified yet simple methodology and tools for target definition in selected business processes, its monitoring and forecasting facilitating controllable enterprise developments
Interoperability and integration with other in-house systems and databases
Automatic business process measurements and database updating
Automatic enterprise benchmark reporting against pre-defined events and goals
Comparisons of actual enterprise results against those in the past as well as enterprise vs. other groups of enterprises
Reporting support for various mobile devices, phones, enterprise web, e-mail, etc.
Intuitive user interface, self-learning aid for users with limited computer skills
Multilingual implementation allowing local customization and modifications
Highly customizable content of applications and its descriptions in system help, procedures, instructions facilitating knowledge development and sharing
Add-on e-learning, examples and case study analysis tools
Running on commodity hardware under MS Windows or Linux in enterprise intranets
Multi-user operational environment with scalability depending on hardware used
Installation options in-house and in-cloud
Minimized cost of ownership per enterprise
Minimum requirements to technical support in installation and maintenance
Free open source solution (FOSS)
The features addressing stakeholder needs
•Management, monitoring, audit and benchmarking of business processes in both private and public organizations facilitating good governance
•Applicability to a single or multiple organizations, branches, sales or service points
•Rich yet easy reporting facilitating transparency and traceability of an organizational performance over time and its comparison to others
•Agile customizable applications introducing business analytics tools, editors of indicators, focused multi-criteria views to performance, definitions targets for monitored or audited processes and reporting in wide range of modalities
•Advanced yet simple tools for definition of goals for organizations facilitating its management, collaboration and coordination between organizations, productivity and efficiency, monitoring of long term strategies of sustainable development
•Methodology and information tools for preparing SMART decision options, scenario analysis, predictive analytics, forecasts, evaluation trends, outcomes in policy making, investments and innovations, utilizing green and environmentally sustainable production techniques especially increasing efficiency of energy and local resources
• Full compliance to process and performance measurement, monitoring and benchmarking formulated in specifications of ISO/IEC 9001, 14000, 15504, 17025, 26000.
•Strategic planning and impact analysis of risks and uncertainties, including comparisons of initial decision assumptions to actual results obtained over time
•Attractive educational content facilitating capacity-building in effective management of business processes and ICT applications, implementation of business consulting
•Source for continuous improvement of business culture and results
•Applications providing evidence information for implementing and monitoring of sectoral, cross-sectoral and thematic programmes by branch and geography
•Non-commercial, non-proprietary, agile free open source ICT platform for private and public organizations
Status
The software is currently in development and testing.
Screen prototypes:
1. Monitoring panel in Public Municipalities application
The organizations and institutions willing to take part in the project implementation and its piloting may contact us for project details, financing and collaboration framework as follows: info(at)win2biz.com.
Contacts:
UNIDO:
Mr. Gerardo Patacconi, Unit Chief, phone: +43 (1) 26026-3605, email: G.Patacconi@unido.org
EPIC:
Enterprise Performance Improvement Centre (EPIC), GOLEM IMS GMBH here >>
UNIDO partner providing development, support, training and implementation in countries
PHAROS Enterprise Benchmarking 