Saudi German Hospitals Group Automates its Balanced Scorecard with performancesoft pbviews

The number one healthcare brand in the Middle East and Africa becomes the latest organization to implement pbviews for the Balanced Scorecard.

(PRWEB) November 18, 2005 -- performancesoft is pleased to announce that Saudi German Hospitals Group, the largest private healthcare company in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region, has selected performancesoft pbviews to automate its Balanced Scorecard. The Balanced Scorecard implementation is in its final phase in the Corporate Office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, as well as the four hospitals in: Jeddah, Aseer, Riyadh and Madinah, Saudi Arabia.

Saudi German Hospitals Group (SGH) is the number-one healthcare brand in the MENA region. SGH Group provides quality medical care to its patients in all its world class facilities, and follows an aggressive growth strategy to achieve its vision of having 30 world class hospitals generating 50,000 jobs by 2015. The latest addition to SGH Group is its hospital in Yemen, which is scheduled to commence operations in early 2006. This is a model for the region on public-private partnership in healthcare. The Government of Yemen has invested in this project with SGH Group, and has created a world class hospital that has been developed to become the ‘Mayo Clinic’ of the African Horn.

SGH Group is also entering into medical education in a big way. Its first medical college is under construction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and it has plans to establish five medical colleges in the region by 2010.

“The SGH strategy is to use scientific management in hospital operations and adopt global best practices to provide the highest patient satisfaction and investor returns. After detailed research and analysis, SGH Group selected perfomancesoft to implement the Balanced Scorecard as a tool to manage its growth plan,” said Sobhi Batterjee, President of SGH Group. “To drive growth and maintain its leading position in the region, Saudi German Hospitals Group has developed a Balanced Scorecard, with indicators in place to track, report on, and manage strategy. Through the use of pbviews, the company will communicate the corporate strategy throughout the corporate office and hospitals, capturing and reporting both qualitative and quantitative performance information and encouraging continuous improvement.”

“Around the world, the healthcare industry is making great strides in Performance Management, and we are pleased to add Saudi German Hospitals Group, a leader in healthcare development and provision for the Middle East and North Africa, to our growing list of customers in this industry,” said Steve Fluin, CEO, Europe, Middle East and Africa, performancesoft Inc. “Through the use of pbviews, Saudi German Hospitals Group will be well-positioned to manage performance in pursuit of providing exceptional healthcare services in the region.”

About Saudi German Hospitals Group
Saudi German Hospitals Group is considered the largest private healthcare company in the MENA region. The group is a multi-functional healthcare company which is considered not just a healthcare operator, but developer as well. It constructs its own hospitals and finances its developments with the support of local government and development banks. SGH Group is now growing at a rate of 1 hospital every year, and currently has over 3,000 employees.

About performancesoft, Inc.
Founded in 1993, performancesoft is the clear leader in Performance Management and Balanced Scorecard software, with the richest, most intuitive and easiest to use product in the category, and the largest number of successful deployments worldwide. Its state of the art software, practical expertise and unparalleled customer support make pbviews the solution of choice for today’s performance driven organizations, which include: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Surrey and Sussex Strategic Health Authority, Woman & Infants Hospital, Kaiser Permanente, LifeNet and MD Anderson Cancer Center. For additional information, please visit http://www.performancesoft.com.

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