About
Who is behind Watershed?
Sekani Williams is founder of HandScribe, LLC and the creator of Watershed Strategy Execution Software.
Sekani is an engineer with extensive expertise in performance measurement and quality systems. He has designed performance measurement algorithms utilized by the United States Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS) to evaluate participating hospitals throughout the United States. He has also completed software design studies for the Joint Commission and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States. He has designed several database systems used for secure data collection, transmission and analysis and previously developed an electronic medical record system for the Palm “Pilot,” the first successful handheld computer. He has management consulting experience in the financial, healthcare and government sectors. Additionally, he has worked as a healthcare operations manager and facility design consultant.
What’s Our Goal?
To make effective goal setting and strategy execution broadly accessible to businesses with ongoing performance improvement initiatives.
Visionary organizations in industries such as education, healthcare and public services are required to meet ongoing performance management standards. HandScribe’s web-based software guides these businesses through 3 types of activities:
- Ensuring that all employees understand company goals and their stake in achieving them
- Monitoring compliance objectives, and
- Taking better, timelier corrective actions
Why Do We Care?
In 2009, Seventy-four percent of organizations using the Balanced Scorecard to manage corporate strategy and performance used internal resources to select and implement their Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
But businesses that build their systems around paper forms or spreadsheets soon find that they’re in for a bumpy ride. Quite often data is fragmented, reports are late, accountability is lacking and critical decisions are delayed. When business leaders eventually decide to automate, they generally find that commercial software carries costs for licensing, maintenance, consulting and training that rise quickly and discourage adoption by all users and stakeholders. It doesn’t have to be that way. We’d rather charge based on usefulness than on the number of users.
What’s Our Big Idea?
If you prefer the speed and flexibility of retaining performance management consultants, we are happy to help. Otherwise, we are happy to be the little company that Holds Your Hand through regular seminars, tutorials and articles that empower you to do well.
If your favorite part of a strategy change involves the creation of new macro-enabled pivot tables, and custom reports, then our software is probably not for you. We’re focused on creating tools that the majority of our non-technical customers will find Engaging … but not Intimidating.
If you value strategy and performance management software as a single source of truth, you will agree that it makes sense to Draw Everyone In. Everything from the design of our software, to our pricing structure, to our training & consulting format is carefully orchestrated to eliminate barriers to creating that single source of truth.
