Closing the gap. Visualizing Strategy results with StratML Part 3

The talk purpose is to share the value and capabilities of StratML in order to articulate high level initiatives that involve large number of people, time or resources. We will also take a shot at fixing two of its weak points, available tooling and corrections needed to enable the automatic evaluation of the results. The talk will be structured around:

• A hands on presentation of the StratML part 3 form, an Xsltform based form currently in development. StratML parts 1 and 2 were quite minimalist, and while that may be appropriate for high end users it can be less attractive for least experienced ones. StratML part 3 include, for example, elements for describing plan context like PESTLE or SWOT frameworks or Driving Forces elements.
• A light introduction on StratML main elements, concepts and semantics.
• A proposal for a complementary schema for describing explicit result evaluation rules, enabling machine based evaluation of plan results and advances.
• Currently indicators and objectives are specified in natural language, and due to its inherent ambiguity and imprecision, there’s no direct way to perform a trustworthy evaluation that show if the results are met or not with. This limits the visual representation of the results, that is a key feature in plans follow up.
• The result elements (Actual and Target Result) of StratML can be too simplistic on situations where the data is provided from different groups with different levels of confidence or impact.

During the talk I will be showing a repository based (salvora plus xsltforms) forms interaction and final results evaluation with techniques like XSLT, XQuery and XProc.