Balanced scorecard

What you measure is what you get. Senior executives understand that their organization’s measurement system strongly affects the behavior of managers and employees. Executives also understand that traditional financial accounting measures like return-on-investment and earnings-per-share can give misleading signals for continuous improvement and innovation—activities today’s competitive environment demands. The traditional financial performance measures worked well […]

What do companies like Rockwater, Apple Computer, and Advanced Micro Devices have in common? They’re using the scorecard to measure performance and set strategy.

There is a disconnect in most companies between strategy formulation and strategy execution. On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of,...

Measuring the value of intangible assets such as company culture, knowledge management systems, and employees' skills is the holy grail of accounting....

The key to executing your strategy is to have people in your organization understand it—including the crucial but perplexing processes by which intangible assets will be converted into tangible outcomes. Strategy maps can help chart this difficult terrain.

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Building a scorecard can help managers link today’s actions with tomorrow’s goals.

Effective performance measurement systems articulate strategic objectives, enabling leaders at all levels to make critical decisions.

Strategy maps show every employee precisely how to turn a struggling organization around.

For years, people have bemoaned executives' zealous focus on short-term results, which often leads CEOs to make moves that undermine their firms' long-term...

Throughout most of modern business history, corporations have attempted to unlock value by matching their structures to their strategies: Centralization...

It's not just about innovation; it's maximizing what you already have.

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Increasingly, companies are measuring customer loyalty, employee satisfaction, and other nonfinancial areas of performance that they believe affect profitability....

When most of the world's financial services giants were stumbling and retrenching in the aftermath of the 2008 recession, the asset management firm BlackRock...

Executives know that a company's measurement systems strongly affect employee behavior. But the traditional financial performance measures that worked...

Fifty percent of corporate alliances fail. But you can increase your partnership’s odds of success by applying these techniques.

If you were a military general on the march, you'd want your troops to have plenty of maps--detailed information about the mission they were on, the roads...

The crisis in financial institutions and the imminent failure of the US-based automobile producers have raised the issue about whether use of the Balanced...