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What is the primary purpose of a Balanced Scorecard in organizations?
What is the primary purpose of a Balanced Scorecard in organizations?
- To create a cause-and-effect relationship within a strategy (correct)
- To serve as an operational budget template
- To outline employee performance standards
- To provide financial measures of business performance
Which of the following is NOT one of the critical components of a Balanced Scorecard?
Which of the following is NOT one of the critical components of a Balanced Scorecard?
- Initiatives
- Measurements
- Market Analysis (correct)
- Targets
In what year did the Balanced Scorecard evolve to focus on enterprise-wide strategic management?
In what year did the Balanced Scorecard evolve to focus on enterprise-wide strategic management?
- 2000 (correct)
- 1996
- 2005
- 1992
What is the main benefit of having a Strategy Map within a Balanced Scorecard?
What is the main benefit of having a Strategy Map within a Balanced Scorecard?
Why do about 70% of Fortune 1,000 companies use the Balanced Scorecard?
Why do about 70% of Fortune 1,000 companies use the Balanced Scorecard?
What is necessary for linking the components of a Balanced Scorecard effectively?
What is necessary for linking the components of a Balanced Scorecard effectively?
Which aspect of the Balanced Scorecard was emphasized in its evolution in 1996?
Which aspect of the Balanced Scorecard was emphasized in its evolution in 1996?
What is the primary function of a Strategy Map in the context of a Balanced Scorecard?
What is the primary function of a Strategy Map in the context of a Balanced Scorecard?
Why might the Balanced Scorecard be utilized as a tool beyond performance management?
Why might the Balanced Scorecard be utilized as a tool beyond performance management?
What was a key transformation of the Balanced Scorecard by 2000?
What was a key transformation of the Balanced Scorecard by 2000?
Flashcards
What is the gap between strategy and action?
What is the gap between strategy and action?
The gap between strategy and action is the difference between what a company plans to do and what it actually accomplishes.
What is a Balanced Scorecard?
What is a Balanced Scorecard?
The Balanced Scorecard is a management tool that helps companies track and manage their performance across four key perspectives: financial, customer, internal processes, and learning & growth.
What is a Strategy Map?
What is a Strategy Map?
A strategy map is a visual representation of a company's strategic objectives and how they relate to each other.
How does the Balanced Scorecard build cause-and-effect?
How does the Balanced Scorecard build cause-and-effect?
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What are the components of a Balanced Scorecard?
What are the components of a Balanced Scorecard?
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Why Financial Measures are Insufficient
Why Financial Measures are Insufficient
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Bridging the Gap Between Strategy and Action
Bridging the Gap Between Strategy and Action
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Key Components of a Balanced Scorecard
Key Components of a Balanced Scorecard
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Study Notes
Origin of Balanced Scorecards
- Financial measures alone are insufficient to answer crucial strategic questions: "Where are you?", "Where are you going?", and "How will you get there?".
- Balanced Scorecards emerged as a solution to this gap.
- Financial measures alone are inadequate for answering strategic questions like where a company is, where it's heading, and how it plans to get there.
Balanced Scorecard History
- Early development focused on measures and reporting (1992).
- Later emphasis on alignment and communication (1996).
- Finally, evolved to encompass enterprise-wide strategic management (2000).
- Harvard Business Review articles, such as "The balanced scorecard," "Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work," and "Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System" popularized the approach in the 1990s.
- Approximately 70% of Fortune 1,000 companies use it for performance management.
- Also used in the public sector for strategy development and testing.
Gap between Strategy and Action
- A key problem lies in connecting strategy (cause) with operational actions (effect).
- Balanced Scorecards aim to bridge this gap.
- A key problem is linking strategy (cause) to operational actions (effect).
Balanced Scorecards as a Device
- A tool to establish cause-and-effect relationships within an organization.
- Defines strategy as a chain of cause-and-effect links.
- Provides clear visibility between strategic goals and operational activities, helping to focus efforts on the right priorities.
- Provides a "line of sight" from strategic to operational activity; facilitating work on the correct priorities.
Basic Principles of Balanced Scorecards
- Strategy is visualized on a Strategy Map, encompassing four performance perspectives.
- Scorecards must demonstrate the cause-and-effect relationships between strategic objectives across these perspectives.
- Crucial components include measurements, targets, and initiatives.
- The scorecard's components must be tightly linked: goals to objectives, objectives to measurements, and measurements to targets.
- This structured approach is critical for driving successful strategy execution.
- A tight model is needed for driving strategy execution.
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