The balanced scorecard is a strategic planning and management system developed in the 1990s by Kaplan and Norton. It provides a framework for translating an organization's mission and strategy into a comprehensive set of performance measures. The balanced scorecard suggests organizations monitor performance from four perspectives: financial, customer, internal business processes, and learning and growth. This allows organizations to gain feedback and align activities with strategic goals from multiple important dimensions.
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Balanced Scorecard
The balanced scorecard is a strategic planning and management system developed in the 1990s by Kaplan and Norton. It provides a framework for translating an organization's mission and strategy into a comprehensive set of performance measures. The balanced scorecard suggests organizations monitor performance from four perspectives: financial, customer, internal business processes, and learning and growth. This allows organizations to gain feedback and align activities with strategic goals from multiple important dimensions.
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BALANCED SCORECARD
Developed in the early 1990's by Drs.
Robert Kaplan and David Norton.
The balanced scorecard is a
management system that enables organizations to clarify its vision and strategy and translate them into action . The balanced scorecard methodology builds on some key concepts of previous management ideas such as Total Quality Management (TQM), including customer-defined quality, continuous improvement, employee empowerment, and -- primarily -- measurement-based management and feedback.
The balanced scorecard incorporates feedback
around internal business process outputs, as in TQM, but also adds a feedback loop around the outcomes of business strategies. This creates a "double-loop feedback" process in the balanced scorecard. The balanced scorecard suggests that we view the organization from four perspectives, and to develop metrics, collect data and analyze it relative to each of these perspectives: The Learning and Growth Perspective
The Business Process Perspective
The Customer Perspective
The Financial Perspective
The Learning and Growth Perspective This perspective includes employee training and corporate cultural attitudes related to both individual and corporate self-improvement . Learning and growth constitute the essential foundation for success of any knowledge-worker organization.
The Business Process Perspective
This perspective refers to internal business processes. Metrics based on this perspective allow the managers to know how well their business is running, and whether its products and services conform to customer requirements (the mission). The Customer Perspective Importance of customer focus and customer satisfaction in any business is increasing. These are leading indicators: if customers are not satisfied, they will eventually find other suppliers that will meet their needs.
The Financial Perspective
Timely and accurate funding data will always be a priority, and managers will do whatever necessary to provide it. ADVANTAGES OF BALANCED SCORECARD Assigning weightage to KRAs enables the
employees to prioritise their work.
The weightage assingment also gives the
employees a clear picture of issues critical to the
organisation and individual contribution in the achievement of organisational objectives. It is transparent in nature.
The demarcation of incentives on level basis
motivates the employees.
The Balanced Scorecard allows an organisation to align its strategic activities to the strategic plan. It permits real deployment and implementation of the strategy on a continuous basis. An organisation can get feedback needed to guide the planning efforts. Periodic reviews are conducted which helps in reviewing the strategy.