Simmethod from management storytelling to best in-class performance: Predictive Analytics and Best-In-Class Value Chain Performance and Leading Indicators

1. SIMMETHOD™
From Management Storytelling to
Best-In-Class Performance
SIMMETHOD™ Strategy/Execution Index,
Competitive Intelligence Success Metrics Database
and Alerts predict the performance of your business
and alert you of new threats and opportunities in
relation to your current and future competitors
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2. SIMMETHOD™ Performance Predictive Index and Alerts
The best way to predict your outcomes is to create them
Back in Australia, where I worked
as Westfield’s CIO for 8 years,
one of my Senior Programmers
asked me for time off because
his wife was going to have a baby.
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3. SIMMETHOD™ Performance Predictive Index and Alerts
The best way to predict your outcomes is to create them
When he came back,
we all asked: boy or girl?
I do not know, he replied:
“Now we have to wait for
9 months”.
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4. SIMMETHOD™ Performance Predictive Index and Alerts
The best way to predict your outcomes is to create them
In Business Intelligence,
Performance and Risk
Management, CRM and
Predictive Analytics, (as in making
Babies) the best way to predict
your outcomes is to create them!
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5. Algorithm, Strategy/Execution Performance Predictive
Indices, Competitive Intelligence Database and Alerts
The question is: How to identify Best-In-Class
management performance and predict
your outcomes when a shift in Business
value towards intangibles and value
chains has invalidated old industry
barriers, strategies, business models,
risk and performance metrics and
outdated leadership/management skills?
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6. Algorithm, Strategy/Execution Performance Predictive
Indices, Competitive Intelligence Database and Alerts
SIMMETHOD™ Algorithms, Strategy/
Execution Performance Predictive Indices
Competitive Intelligence Analytics
Database and Alerts identify and rate
the Best-In-Class businesses enabling you to create
new value-chain leading indicators in order to
Predict new threats and opportunities coming
from inside and outside your industry.
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7. Algorithm, Strategy/Execution Performance Predictive
Indices, Competitive Intelligence Database and Alerts
Unlike other solutions, SIMMETHOD™ is like
a relative scale that measures management’s
ability to strategize and execute against a
constantly updated competitive intelligence
database of Best-In-Class performers across
every Business Sector enabling you to
Identify previously undetected strengths
and weaknesses and avoid confusing any
positive trend by real competitive advantage.
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8. SIMMETHOD™
Best-In-Class
Leading Indicators
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9. What caused the collapse of this leading
logistics business?
This major logistic business
with a growing number of
distribution centers,
employees and customers
has just finished the
installation of new CRM and
Business Intelligence
software as a source of
competitive advantage
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10. What caused the collapse of this leading
logistics business?
The new predictive analytics
software collected Data
from multiple sources such
as ERP, inventory, financial,
marketing, customer database and sales and
was designed to maintain a competitive edge
over other logistic companies.
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11. What caused the collapse of this leading
logistics business?
Comprehensive benchmarking
against other logistic businesses
showed increasing market share,
revenue per employee and
per customer.
The logistic company was widely
reported in the financial press as
a “Buy”.
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12. SIMMETHOD™
Can your leading indicators send you broke?
Suddenly, the boy inserted
his stick into the hole and
the most prosperous and
biggest colony of ants
collapsed and disappeared.
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13. SIMMETHOD™
Can your leading indicators send you broke?
When it comes to performance
and risk management, it pays to
look outside your colony (your
industry) and extend the line of
vision to the entire value chain
and every business sector, to
avoid mistaking any positive
growth or positive trend for real
competitive advantage.
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14. From Big Data Company Analytics to Best-In-Class Value-Chain
Performance. Can your Leading Indicators send you broke?
Maximum risk, SIMMETHOD™ keeps your performance at B-I-C
minimum visibility level by linking your CRM, BI & Big Data
and control, unable Analytics to a Global Competitive Intelligence
to predict value Metrics Database of Strategy/Execution
chain risk & Performance Predictive Indices and alerts
performance
SIMMETHOD™
global market
SIMMETHOD™
view leading
value-chain
SIMMETHOD™ risk/
view, leading
industry view performance
Company performance
indicators &
view indicators & indicators &
alerts
alerts alerts database
As in the Ants’ Colony,
internally-focused CRM, BI, The Global Competitive Intelligence Database of
Big Data Analytics and leading Strategy/Execution Performance Predictive Indices
indicators do not protect and Alerts rates your team’s ability to execute against
against threats coming from the Best-In-Class and alerts you of new threats and
different Business Sectors opportunities coming from outside your industry
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15. SIMMETHOD™
Can your leading indicators send you broke?
Threats from competitors that
come from different industries
or competitors at the value-
chain level are more powerful
and difficult to overcome than
threats from competitors from
your own industry because
such competitors usually
have:
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16. SIMMETHOD™
Can your leading indicators send you broke?
•New technology and systems
already fine-tuned in different
industries.
•Innovative products and new
business models.
•New distribution channels and
broader customer definitions.
•More efficient processes and cost
structures.
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17. SIMMETHOD™
Can your leading indicators send you broke?
• Hard to replicate optimized
value chains.
• Predictive value chain leading
indicators and alerts.
These new competitors are
usually undetected by inward-
looking risk and performance
indicators until it is too late.
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18. SIMMETHOD™
The way you measure
determines your results!
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19. Algorithm, Strategy/Execution Performance Predictive
Indices, Competitive Intelligence Database and Alerts
•Back in Argentina where I grew up
my parents sent me to buy 10 meters
of rope for our sailboat.
•To my surprise, the owner of the
shop asked me to measure and cut
the rope on my own.
•At that time, I thought that the
owner of the shop was not very
bright allowing the customers to
measure the rope themselves.
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Indices, Competitive Intelligence Database and Alerts
•I could not get the opportunity pass,
so I measured and cut 11 meters of
rope.
•I handed them back to the shop
owner and with a big smile I said: here
they are 10 meters of rope.
•The shop owner thanked me and with
an even bigger smiled proceeded to
put them on a scale and advised me
“we sell them by the kilo”.
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21. Algorithm, Strategy/Execution Performance Predictive
Indices, Competitive Intelligence Database and Alerts
•The shop owner, without knowing
it, not only gave me a lesson in
honesty, but also started within me
a lifelong passion for Predictive
Analytics & Performance Indicators.
•The moral of the story is… The way
you measure (not only what you
measure) determines your result!
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Indices, Competitive Intelligence Database and Alerts
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23. Algorithm, Strategy/Execution Performance Predictive
Indices, Competitive Intelligence Database and Alerts
SIMMETHOD™ is a relative scale that measures
business risk and performance and rates
your management ability to strategize and
execute against your peers and the market
forces likely to impact your future performance
and risk.
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24. Algorithm, Strategy/Execution Performance Predictive
Indices, Competitive Intelligence Database and Alerts
It is like a sport league table constantly
searching for the top teams in each
industry in order to find their Best-
In-Class strategy, execution, business
models, HR practices, metrics and
processes.
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25. Jorge Oscar Tabacman
jtabacman@gmail.com
www.simmethod.com
The power of the SIMMETHOD™ performance predictive
algorithms, indices, competitive intelligence database and
leading indicators lie in their ability to provide in simple terms
a window into a company business model and management
effectiveness and their ability to predict future trends, risk,
performance and competitive advantage within an extended
value chain.
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