Case Study on
Piloting Procter & Gamble from Decision Cockpits
Submit to
Dr. Nazrul Islam
Dean, School of Management
Asian Institute of Technology
Submitted by
Name
Abu Yousuf Muhammad Solaiman
Mohammad Main Uddin
Mohammad Fazlul Karim
Ear Mohammad
PMBF 5th Batch
Date of Submission
September 12, 2015
ID
st-117357
st-117352
st-117359
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Piloting Procter & Gamble from Decision Cockpits
Question 1: What management, organization, and technology issues had to be addressed when
implementing Business Sufficiency, Business Sphere, and Decision Cockpits?
Answer 1
MANAGEMENT
Human Resource Department function in designed to maximize employee performance in service
of their employers strategic objectives
Concerned with how people are managed within organizations, focusing on policies and systems
Responsible for a number of activities, including employee recruitment, motivation, trainingdevelopment, performance appraisal, rewarding and finally adopt policy for retaining best
employees.
ORGANIZATION
The organization dimension of information systems involves the organizations hierarchy,
functional specialties, business processes, culture and political interest group.
Pursue new IT innovation to maintain the competitive advantage.
TECHNOLOGY
The organization dimension of information systems consist of computer hardware, software, data
management technology and networking / telecommunications technology
Can change the way its gathers, reports and interprets data
Question 2: How did these decision-making tools change the way the company ran its business? How
effective are they? Why?
Answer 2
The Business Sufficiency
Furnishes executives with predictions about market share and other key performance metrics six
to twelve months into the future
Show what is occurring in the business right now, why its happening, and what actions the
company can take to mitigate the situation?
The company can take a more appropriate action.
The Business Sphere
Reveals insights, trends and opportunities for leaders, and prompts them to ask focused business
questions that can be addressed with the right data on the spot
Aggregate data, organize them appropriately and then monitor trends
The Decision Cockpit
Eliminates time spent by employees debating the validity of competing data versions
Employees are able to focus instead on decisions for improving the business
Question 3: How are these systems related to Bangladesh Banks strategy?
Answer 3
Able to make faster and better decisions than were previously possible
Employee-generated emails have dropped sharply since more workers can answer their own
questions and obtain their own information
Enjoys a reduced complexity involved in generating a statistical report, as well as cost reductions
from maintaining one standardized set of data across the enterprise instead of duplicated,
redundant data
Able to better anticipate future events affecting the business and more quickly respond to market
stimuli