What is Corporate Investment Management, Key issues and Benefits

Corporate Investment Management, supports group-wide, cross-system control and monitoring of the investment process from the planning stage through actual implementation.

Corporate Investment Management makes it possible to integrate local planning in the strategic group perspective. You can simulate planning and analysis of scenarios, even if they are not reflected by the actual operative situation. The strategic information gleaned can then be compared to operative requirements in Corporate Investment Management.

During operative implementation in the investment process, Corporate Investment Management provides constant checks in the form of plan/actual comparisons.

What are the Key issues of Corporate Investment Management?

• Recording and collecting local requests and plans
  • Several different tools and formats
  • No general standards for corporate collection
  • Information is scattered in different PC files and on paper
  • Collecting uploads from different media with lots of manual work
• Reconciliation of bottom up requests and top down budgets
  • Time consuming communication by (E-) mail, telephone
• Corporate Reporting and Control
  • Different local reporting systems
  • Manual summarization for corporate reporting
  • Time lag for information on corporate level

What are the Benefits of Corporate Investment Management?

• Recording and collecting local requests and plans
  • A flexible tool for the whole group
  • Generally accepted standards can be defined and distributed
• Reconciliation of bottom up requests and top down budgets
  • Transfer of plan versions for bottom up and top down planning
  • All necessary information available for all authorized people
• Corporate Reporting and Control
  • Local and corporate reporting on the same data
  • Drill down into local reporting possible

What are the Benefits of Corporate Investment Management