Global data that senior management uses in order to support key and often strategic decisions, are often just a mere fallacious reflect of local data found at more operational enterprise levels. Such troubling evidence questions the validity and the relevance of many managerial decisions that executives make while relying on typical management reports and dashboards. In particular, acute discrepancies between local and global data may jeopardize implementation of even the best thought out strategy.
In response to such fundamental issues, “Matrix Business Analysis” or simply “MBA”, is a decision support and complexity management approach, that sprung during the past few years from EFFIS research and consulting work http://www.effis.com/
The main purpose of this blog is to introduce step by step the most salient features of the approach, which constantly evolves and develops through EFFIS work in corporate environments.
The word Matrix refers to strategic matrices (bubble charts with quadrants) taught today in business schools and widely used by enterprises and management consultants. The approach uses such matrices in often specific ways, without yet being limited to that kind of thinking and general framework.
About Me
- Michel Karma
- Michel Karma founded EFFIS in 1991 as a consulting services and software design company. He holds Masters Degrees in Engineering and in Technology & Policy from the Ecole Centrale de Paris (a leading engineering school) in France and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US. For 10 years, he also taught as a lecturer in the Master's of Business and Information Technology Program of the Paris Dauphine University. He has been active in the field of decision support and business intelligence since its inception.