Kepler is a Market first Performance Accelerator platform that enables global & regional businesses for strategic alignment and ROI from Technology, Finance, Operations, Risk and Markets. Each vector is backed by patent-backed & codified IP, context personalized data correlation, experiential NLP, curated ML & benchmarks.
In its conceptualization and design, Kepler brings together Performance enabler tools and frameworks with a focus on bespoke implementation for the enterprise. Industry acknowledged, performance enabler tools and frameworks such as Technology Business Management, Community of Practice, Balanced Scorecard and OKRs.
Balanced Scorecard for Technology Performance
The Balanced Scorecard is a strategic planning and management tool used by organizations to align day-to-day activities with enterprise strategy, prioritize projects, and measure success against goals. The tool enables evaluating performance along IT delivery performance, end-user/customer benefits & satisfaction, bridging communication gaps between IT and business units and demonstrating the value of IT services to senior management and business leaders.
Kepler’s Balanced Scorecard helps enterprises manage delivery effectiveness with a breakthrough view of delivery performance - centralized metrics, trends & performance indicators, advanced data-driven analysis, what-if modeling, predictors, forecasters & real-time benchmarks.
The IP-intensive framework provides a comprehensive view of IT performance, strategic alignment, financial management, people management and customer-centricity, enabling CXOs to drive continuous improvement, address emerging threats and foster a security-aware culture within the organization.
OKR Alignment
OKR alignment refers to the process of ensuring that Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are closely linked to the organization's strategic goals and priorities. By aligning technology OKRs with the organization's mission, vision and core values, technology teams can focus their efforts on activities that drive the most significant impact.
It involves setting clear and measurable objectives that are in line with the overall strategic direction of the company and managing every cluster of work / initiatives and effort are directed towards the OKRs.
Kepler enables OKR success predictability from the ground up, drive alignment, focus & accountability to strategic objectives by transforming OKRs to tangible result-states - with on-tap intelligence for progress on OKRs.
Technology Business Management
TBM is a comprehensive & collaborative framework that helps organizations manage their business of technology, align their IT departments with overall business goals and strategy. It provides a pathway for integrating IT into the core of the business, unlike traditional approaches where IT often is operated separately. TBM effectively portrays the ROI & business value of technology investments to the broader enterprise.
The main benefits of TBM include:
1. Improving visibility into IT costs, consumption, and value delivery
2. Enabling data-driven decision making and aligning technology investments with business priorities
3. Fostering an agile and responsive IT function that can quickly adapt to changing market conditions
4. Demonstrating the strategic value of IT to the broader organization
Collaboration & Community of Practice
Fostering a purpose-built community of practice in any organization facilitates sharing of collective expertise & experiences – enabling measurable success to culture of collaboration, contributing and consuming shared knowledge assets, learning & continuous improvement. Community of practice is a backbone in Kepler to help Technology organizations Extract collaboration value from IT functions & stakeholder groups coupled with Structured framework for IP development through applied innovation, In-app review & personalization zones for workgroups, Cross-functional plan tracker.