Altus Strategy

Overview

Corporate strategy refers to the overall plan that guides an organisation's actions and decisions in order to achieve its long-term goals and objectives. It involves making choices about where to compete, how to compete, and what resources to allocate in order to create and sustain a competitive advantage. Corporate strategy is typically set by top management and influences the entire organisation. key elements and considerations involved in corporate strategy:

• Goals: Corporate strategy establishes the high-level goals that the organisation aims to accomplish. These goals provide a framework for decision-making throughout the organisation.
• Portfolio Management: For enterprise companies with multiple business units, corporate strategy involves managing the portfolio of businesses. This may include expanding, divesting, or acquiring businesses to enhance overall performance.
• Prioritisation: Corporate strategy requires making deliberate choices about which initiatives to pursue. Prioritisation ensures resources are allocated to the initiatives that provide the greatest strategic value, helping organisations focus on high-impact projects, avoid waste, and adapt to changing circumstances.

Altus Strategy is where corporate strategies are identified and managed. These are broken down into Strategic Goals to be met and Benefits to be realised.

Dataverse Tables

Below is the data model for the Altus Strategy objects.

• A Strategic Theme groups goals together. Hence, a theme can have one or more Strategic Goals.
  More details on Themes.

• A Strategic Goal is the goal that the business wants to achieve. A goal can have one or more Benefits.
  More details on Goals.

• Benefits are the additional value generated by a project, portfolio or program when executed.

  • Portfolios, Programs, and Projects can have one or more Benefits.
  • A benefit can have one or more Outputs or Outcomes.

  More details on Benefits.

• Prioritisation helps determine which initiatives should be pursued based on strategic value and other criteria.
  Prioritisation is captured in the database through several tables:

  • Plan: Contains all initiatives and is linked to a single Prioritisation Model.
  • Prioritisation Model: Defines how initiatives are evaluated and ranked.
  • Evaluation Criteria: Represents the factors used to assess and score initiatives.

  More details on Prioritisation.

• Optimisation helps determine which Initiatives to undertake based on financial and other constraints.

  • Optimisation Plan: Contains the core information relevant to the Optimisation including the Horizon Start and End Date and the Budget.
  • Scenario: Each plan can have one or more Scenarios associated to it. The Scenarios contain the selected Initiatives, the horizon forecast data and the IN/OUT status of Initiatives.

  More details on Optimisation.

Strategy	Strategy with fields

Prioritisation	Prioritisation with fields

Prioritisation Settings	Prioritisation Settings with fields

Optimisation	Optimisation with fields

Table	Name
Strategic Theme	sensei_strategictheme
Strategic Goal	sensei_strategicgoal
Benefit	sensei_benefit
Benefit Outcome	sensei_benefitoutcome
Benefit Output	sensei_benefitoutput
Benefit Tracking	sensei_benefittracking
Evaluation Points	sensei_evaluationpoint
Initiative	sensei_initiative
Initiative <> Evaluation Point	sensei_initiativeevaluationpoint
Prioritisation	sensei_plan
Evaluation Criteria	sensei_EvaluationCriteria
Evaluation Criteria Category	sensei_evaluationcriteriacategory
Prioritisation Model	sensei_prioritisationmodel
Prioritisation Model <> Evaluation Criteria	sensei_prioritisationmodelevaluationcriteria
Optimisation Plan	sensei_optimisationplan
Scenario	sensei_scenario