Cascaded objectives

[Former Member]

Hi all,

We have a question regarding cascading in SSM. We are wondering is it possible to cascade two objectives from one objective.

For example, we have a goal named Expenses and two other goals that are cascaded from Expenses. We would like to use the goal Expenses in one context and other two objectives (that are both cascaded from Expensess) in a different context. But it appears that we can only select one of them. Why is that so? is this the way that cascading works? And how can this cascading be seen on BSC?

Thank you all in advance.

Best regards,

Petra

[former_member182649 · Accepted solution]

Petra,

Yes you can cascade more than one objective from a single top level Objective but you are right that only one of those Objectives can appear in a single lower level context.

When you go to the Scorecard Comparison you will see the top level Objective in one column and then your cascaded Objectives at the same level in the columns for their Contexts. I have used generic names in the image for the names of the Objectives and their cascaded objectives. In this instance each of the Objectives has different KPIs.

If you really need to have 2 cascaded Objectives in the same context then could you use 2 (or more) Index KPIs in the single cascaded Objective in the lower level contexts? Not quite the same but may do the trick.

Hope this helps

Regards

Colin

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Colin,

Sory for the late reply and thank you for explanation.
In the end we decided not to use cascading because it does not satisfy our model and logic.

Best regards,

Petra