"In the beginning was darkness. We went to work, did our job (well or otherwise) and went home - day in and day out. We did not have to worry about targets, annual assessments, metric-driven ...

Last time we defined the tools to create the foundation of the balanced scorecard. At this point, a good facilitator has selected and managed the implementation team through the many debates and ...

Question: Is there some kind of shorthand mechanism that any citizen, organization, institution or corporation can use to measure the effectiveness of its fire department? If there were such a tool, ...

The balanced scorecard approach to management was first laid out by Robert Kaplan and David Norton in 1992. This broad management strategy that separates an organization's goals into quantifiable ...

In my last post, I argued that marketers should use a Balanced Scorecard to measure and manage marketing performance. The Balanced Scorecard was introduced by Robert Kaplan and David Norton in the ...

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 ...

No matter how much we advocate the science of marketing, its art has not disappeared. Take the balanced scorecard, for instance. In the tradition of marketing creativity, a graphical document—the ...

Building a scorecard can help managers link today’s actions with tomorrow’s goals. by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton As companies around the world transform themselves for competition that is ...

The balanced scorecard tracks all the important elements of a company’s strategy—from continuous improvement and partnerships to teamwork and global scale. And that allows companies to excel. by ...

Information Security has long been seen as at odds with business agility and productivity. Whether it uses electronic or physical controls, security often gets a bad reputation for being a burdensome ...