Program and Objectives Management

Aligning strategy and operations through complete visibility to programs, objectives and targets.

Historically most organizations viewed the creation and monitoring of management programs as a necessary task in order to achieve ISO certification. The emergence of governance regulations and the move of organizations toward continuous improvement through the monitoring of key performance indicators necessitate that companies look for ways to measure their critical processes against the company goals and objectives in order to look for improvement and latent risk areas.  Thus, companies are setting measurable objectives, recording data to measure against those objectives and reporting on the status of their compliance as part of their tactical and strategic activities.

With eQCM Program and Management Objectives (PMO), organizations can set company or department or unit-wide objectives and tie those objectives to the applicable programs in the organization which may include environmental, health & safety, and quality programs, to name a few.  However, documenting a company’s objectives, and linked programs and targets is merely the first step in compliance. 

To effectively manage objectives, organizations must also monitor the progress toward achieving the objectives and ensure that all stakeholders are aware of their activities required to achieve them.  Corrective actions can be put in place in the event the realization of an objective is not met.  The monitoring of the objectives is done simply through establishing measurable targets and/or action items that utilize eQCM’s powerful task management system to push tasks into the relevant workloads.

eQCM^® PMO is effective for small companies as well as large enterprises.  Corporate and department- specific objectives can be established and approved.  In addition, eQCM^® PMO provides a long-term strategy for dealing with objectives by allowing the programs to be copied from one year to the next, allowing the trending of the compliance with the objectives over time and over business units.   

eQCM^® PMO complements and enhances the eQCM GRC solution by:

• ISO Compliance: Provides compliance capabilities by providing managers with the ability to create management programs in compliance with ISO 14001, ISO 9001, and OHSAS regulations, to track related objectives, action items, and targets, and to see at-a-glance the status of how the organization is progressing in relation to their corporate goals.

• Continuous Improvement: eQCM^® PMO allows organizations to define and increase the visibility to their continuous improvement processes.  The organizations will be able establish goals and define the activities necessary to achieve those goals for the organization.   Objectives, targets, activities, and measures in accordance with a balance score card can be established in the system.

• Strategic and Risk Accountability: eQCM^® PMO allows to reduce strategic risk by establishing goals in compliance areas and conducting and tracking activities necessary to meet those goals.

eQCM^® Program and Objectives Management (PMO) is available within the integrated eQCM governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solution. The software suite includes eQCM^® EDM (Electronic Document Management), as well as the eQCM^® CAPA, eQCM^® NC (Nonconformances), eQCM^® Audit, eQCM^® Customer Complaints and eQCM^® Compliance Intelligence.

eQCM PMO™ Value Proposition