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Taxonomy 3: organisational function

  • Operational: used by lower level managers to monitor rapidly changing critical business conditions. Updates in real time or several times a day.
  • Tactical: used by mid-level managers to identify and assess strengths and weaknesses in support of strategy development. Updated less often than operational.
  • Strategic: used by executives to monitor KPIs relevant to overarching objectives. Updated on a recurring but less frequent basis.
  • Analytical: used by analysts to identify and investigate trends, predict outcomes and discover insights in large volumes of data.