Business intelligence as a key information and knowledge tool for strategic business performance management

The indicators, methods and models applied in performance management in the past were largely based on financial indicators and financial management methods. Of course, we do not claim that financial indicators are not currently necessary or relevant, but as the business results showed, the management based only on the financial statements is no longer enough. The paper focuses on the presentation of selected research results related to strategic business performance management. With the currently presented issue, we enter an area of research which is not as clearly defined as it was in the case of a traditional financially oriented approach to measuring and managing corporate performance which prevailed in the past. The aim of the paper is to analyse and synthetize findings regarding the chosen, mainly not traditional methods and models, which have started to be used for strategic business performance management. The results of our empirical scientific study provide interesting and valuable findings that the overall performance of industrial enterprises in Slovakia is to be looked at comprehensively strategically and not just in financial terms. Why are some industrial enterprises more efficient than others? What methods and procedures are applied by more efficient companies? The answers to these questions can be found in our paper. We recommend industry enterprises to apply selected methods and models of strategic business performance management. The key tool in increasing the overall performance of the enterprise in the selected Slovak industries seems to be employing a system of strategic performance management, supported by a knowledge-based Business Intelligence Information System.