Generic (objective or Measure)

A Generic Objective (or Measure) is one that is used across the organisation (or strategic Business unit), and cascades down to lower levels.  Implicitly, generic measures will have all the children (cascaded down one level) add up to the value of the parent.  Because of this, the Qsoar system can automate this process.

Example: 'Budget OPEX' (IUnits is dollars).

At the top level (so we call this a 'top level' generic KPI doesn't need to identify the area as it is either a firm or SBU wide KPI.  The defining rule is that a KPI needs to have an Org Unit designation is if it has a sibling, parent, or hypothetical parent KPI.  If it does not have a parent or hypothetical parent KPI then it should not have a separate bracketed area identification.

This is the opposite of a Specific Objective or Measure.