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Balanced Scorecard

Balanced Scorecard

Balanced scorecards ranked sixth on our list, thanks in part to heavy use by more than half of all emerging market executives, a sign that executives in those markets are seeking to make their companies more sophisticated competitors.

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A Balanced Scorecard defines an organization’s performance and measures whether management is achieving desired results. The Balanced Scorecard translates Mission and Vision Statements into a comprehensive set of objectives and performance measures that can be quantified and appraised. These measures typically include the following categories of performance:

  • Financial performance (revenues, earnings, return on capital, cash flow)
  • Customer value performance (market share, customer satisfaction measures, customer loyalty)
  • Internal business process performance (productivity rates, quality measures, timeliness)
  • Innovation performance (percentage of revenue from new products, employee suggestions, rate of improvement index)
  • Employee performance (morale, knowledge, turnover, use of best demonstrated practices)

Usage and satisfaction among survey respondents

 

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How a Balanced Scorecard works:

To construct and implement a Balanced Scorecard, managers should:

  • Articulate the business’s vision and strategy
  • Identify the performance categories that best link the business’s vision and strategy to its results (such as financial performance, operations, innovation, employee performance)
  • Establish objectives that support the business’s vision and strategy
  • Develop effective measures and meaningful standards, establishing both short-term milestones and long-term targets
  • Ensure companywide acceptance of the measures
  • Create appropriate budgeting, tracking, communication and reward systems
  • Collect and analyze performance data and compare actual results with desired performance
  • Take action to close unfavorable gaps
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Companies use a Balanced Scorecard to:

  • Clarify or update a business’s strategy
  • Link strategic objectives to long-term targets and annual budgets
  • Track the key elements of the business strategy
  • Incorporate strategic objectives into resource allocation processes
  • Facilitate organizational change
  • Compare performance of geographically diverse business units
  • Increase companywide understanding of the corporate vision and strategy
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Five key trends emerged from Bain's survey of 1,268 managers.


Selected references

Epstein, Marc, and Jean-François Manzoni. “Implementing Corporate Strategy: From Tableaux de Bord to Balanced Scorecards.” European Management Journal, April 1998, pp. 190–203.

Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies. Harvard Business School Press, 2006.

Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. “The Balanced Scorecard: Measures That Drive Performance.” Harvard Business Review, July 2005, pp. 71–79.

Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes. Harvard Business School Press, 2004.

Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment. Harvard Business School Press, 2000.

Niven, Paul R. Balanced Scorecard Diagnostics: Maintaining Maximum Performance. John Wiley & Sons, 2005.

Niven, Paul R. Balanced Scorecard Evolution: A Dynamic Approach to Strategy Execution. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.

Niven, Paul R. Balanced Scorecard Step-by-Step: Maximizing Performance and Maintaining Results. 2d ed. John Wiley & Sons, 2006.

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