Business Performance Analytics: emerging value for management accounting
Journal title MANAGEMENT CONTROL
Author/s Riccardo Silvi, Monica Bartolini, Anna Raffoni, Franco Visani
Publishing Year 2012 Issue 2011/3
Language Italian Pages 21 P. 17-37 File size 1029 KB
DOI 10.3280/MACO2011-003002
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Performance Measurement Systems (PMS) implementations are often considered unsatisfactory. The reasons for this situation can be related to PMS design and focus, cultural and technological issues, as well as to the specific contexts of implementation. This article introduces Business Performance Analytics (BPA) as an important framework for successful PMS design and adoption. Specifically, it defines BPA as the use of data and analytical methods to understand and control business dynamics and performance. This article is based on an exploratory survey involving a sample of global companies. The empirical evidence highlights the importance of measurement and an extended dissatisfaction with current PMS. As for the implementation of BPA in practice, the results show a low level of adoption, both for strategic and operational decisions. At the same time, companies adopting BPA declare a higher perception of relevance of statistical and mathematical tools for supporting the decision-making process. The results also show two clusters of companies with very different approaches to performance measurement. Only the "advanced" are characterized by the implementation of tools of Business Intelligence, together with advanced management accounting and PMS approaches. This "advanced" approach also results in a higher perception of BPA effectiveness in supporting the decision-making process.
Keywords: Business Performance Analytics, exploratory survey, level of implementation
Riccardo Silvi, Monica Bartolini, Anna Raffoni, Franco Visani, Business Performance Analytics: il valore emergente nei sistemi di management accounting in "MANAGEMENT CONTROL" 3/2011, pp 17-37, DOI: 10.3280/MACO2011-003002