Harvard professors Robert Kaplan and David Norton developed the balanced scorecard to help translate vision and strategy into action. This technique can make strategic planning a core part of any ...

Effective project management requires a multi-faceted approach to gauge baseline performance and track improvement. A balanced scorecard is a tool designed to assist management by measuring a variety ...

What is a ‘balanced scorecard’? The balanced scorecard methodology, an outgrowth of prior measurement and management methodologies like total quality management (TQM), has existed for decades, but it ...

The Accounting Review, Vol. 85, No. 3 (MAY 2010), pp. 1095-1117 (23 pages) Using an experiment, I examine whether involvement in scorecard implementation can mitigate the effects of motivated ...

In the early 1990s, two business experts set out to design a new way to track corporate performance by looking not just at bottom lines such as profits and share prices, but at all the operations they ...

Ongoing performance evaluations are just as important as the initial vetting process whenever a small business partners with an external marketing agency. A balanced scorecard approach to performance ...

The following is reprinted with permission from strategicplanningMD.As simple a concept as balanced scorecards are, organizations still have difficulty implementing them effectively. Although the ...

Mobil Oil (now Exxon Mobil) leaped from last to first in profitability within its industry from 1993 to 1995?a rank it maintained for the next four years. Cigna Insurance was losing $1 million a day ...

Interim Topeka city manager Dan Stanley thinks the addition of a “balanced scorecard” will help make the city government a winner in terms of budgeting. Stanley plans to use a tool called “Balanced ...

Robert Kaplan seems to come up with one big idea per decade. In the 1980s it was activity-based costing; in the 1990s it was the balanced scorecard. The idea was first set out in an article that ...