1. Some Historic Reference…….. In 1992,
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Some Historic Reference……..
In 1992,
an article by Robert Kaplan and David Norton entitled "The Balanced Scorecard - Measures that Drive Performance" in the Harvard Business Review caused a lot of attention
for their method, and led to their business bestseller,
"The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action", published in 1996.
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2. The 4 perspectives of the Balanced Scorecard
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The 4 perspectives of the Balanced Scorecard
The Balanced Scorecard method is a strategic approach, and performance management system.
It enables organizations to translate a company's vision and strategy into implementation, working from 4 perspectives:
Financial perspective.
Customer perspective.
Business process perspective.
Learning and growth perspective.
This allows the monitoring of present performance, but the method also tries to capture information about how well the organization is positioned to perform in the future.
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4. 2. The customer perspective
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1. The Financial Perspective
Kaplan and Norton do not disregard the traditional need for financial data. Timely and accurate funding data will always be a priority, and managers will make sure to provide it. In fact, there is often more than sufficient handling and processing of financial data. With the implementation of a corporate database, it is hoped that more of the processing can be centralized and automated. But the point is that the current emphasis on financial issues leads to an unbalanced situation with regard to other perspectives. There is perhaps a need to include additional financial related data, such as risk assessment and cost-benefit data, in this category.
2. The customer perspective
Recent management philosophy has shown an increasing realization of the importance of customer focus and customer satisfaction in any company. These are called leading indicators: if customers are not satisfied, they will eventually find other suppliers that will meet their needs. Poor performance from this perspective is thus a leading indicator of future decline.
Even though the current financial picture may seem (still) good. In developing metrics for satisfaction, customers should be analyzed. In terms of kinds of customers, and of the kinds of processes for which we are providing a product or service to those customer groups.
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5. 3. The Business Process perspective
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3. The Business Process perspective
This perspective refers to internal business processes. Measurements based on this perspective will show the managers how well their business is running, and whether its products and services conform to customer requirements. These metrics have to be carefully designed by those that know these processes most intimately. In addition to the strategic management processes, two kinds of business processes may be identified:
Mission-oriented processes. Many unique problems are encountered in these processes.
Support processes. The support processes are more repetitive in nature, and hence easier to measure and to benchmark. Generic measurement methods can be used.
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6. 4. Learning and Growth perspective
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4. Learning and Growth perspective
* Includes employee training and corporate cultural attitudes related to both individual and corporate self-improvement.
* In a knowledge worker organization, people are the main resource.
In the current climate of rapid technological change, it is becoming necessary for knowledge workers to learn continuously.
Kaplan and Norton emphasize that 'learning' is something more than 'training'; it also includes things like mentors and tutors within the organization, as well as that ease of communication among workers that allows them to readily get help on a problem when it is needed. It also includes technological tools such as an Intranet.
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7. 4. Learning and Growth perspective
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4. Learning and Growth perspective
* The integration of these four perspectives into a one graphical appealing picture, has made the Balanced Scorecard method very successful as a management methodology.
 Objectives, Measures, Targets, and Initiatives
For each perspective of the Balanced Scorecard four things are monitored (scored):
Objectives: major objectives to be achieved, for example, profitable growth.
Measures: the observable parameters that will be used to measure progress toward reaching the objective. For example, the objective of profitable growth might be measured by growth in net margin.
Targets: the specific target values for the measures, for example, 7% annual decline in manufacturing disruptions.
Initiatives: projects or programs to be initiated in order to meet the objective.
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Double-Loop Feedback
In traditional industrial activity, "quality control" and "zero defects" were important words. To shield the customer from receiving poor quality products, aggressive efforts were focused on inspection and testing at the end of the production line. A problem with these approaches - as pointed out by Deming - is that the true causes of defects could never be identified, and there would always be inefficiencies because products with a defect are rejected. Deming understood that variation is created at every step in a production process, and the causes of variation need to be identified and repaired. If this can be done, then there is a way to reduce the defects and improve product quality indefinitely. To establish such a process, Deming emphasized that all business processes should be part of a system, with feedback loops. The feedback data should be examined by managers to determine the causes of variation, and what are the processes with significant problems. Then they can focus their attention on repairing that subset of processes. The balanced scorecard method includes feedbacks around internal business process outputs. As in TQM. Additionally, the Balanced Scorecard provides a feedback for the outcomes of business strategies. This creates a "double-loop feedback" process in the balanced scorecard.
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Outcome Metrics
“You can't improve what you can't measure”. Therefore metrics must be developed based on the priorities of the strategic plan, which provides the key business drivers and criteria for metrics managers most desire to watch. Processes are then designed to collect information relevant to these metrics and reduce it to numerical form for storage, display, and analysis. Decision makers examine the outcomes of various measured processes and strategies and track the results to guide the company and provide feedback. So the value of metrics is in their ability to provide a factual basis for defining:
Strategic feedback to show the present status of the organization from many perspectives for decision makers.
Diagnostic feedback into various processes to guide improvements on a continuous basis.
Trends in performance over time.
Feedback around the measurement methods themselves. Which measurements should be tracked?
Quantitative inputs for forecast methods and for decision support systems.
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Management by Fact
The goal of measuring is to permit managers to see their company more clearly - from many perspectives - and hence to make wiser long-term decisions. A 1997 booklet on the Baldrige Criteria summarizes this concept of fact-based management:
"Modern businesses depend upon measurement and analysis of performance. Measurements must derive from the company's strategy and provide critical data and information about key processes, outputs and results. Data and information needed for performance measurement and improvement are of many types, including: customer, product and service performance, operations, market, competitive comparisons, supplier, employee-related, and cost and financial. Analysis entails using data to determine trends, projections, and cause and effect - that might not be evident without analysis. Data and analysis support a variety of company purposes, such as planning, reviewing company performance, improving operations, and comparing company performance with competitors' or with 'best practices' benchmarks."
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11. Benefits of the Balanced Scorecard
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Benefits of the Balanced Scorecard
Kaplan and Norton cite the following benefits of the usage of the Balanced Scorecard:
Focusing the whole organization on the few key things needed to create breakthrough performance.
Helps to integrate various corporate programs. Such as: quality, re-engineering, and customer service initiatives.
Breaking down strategic measures towards lower levels, so that unit managers, operators, and employees can see what's required at their level to achieve excellent overall performance.
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The financial performance of an organization is essential for its success. Even non-profit organizations must deal in a sensible way with funds they receive. However, a pure financial approach for managing organizations suffers from two drawbacks:
It is historical. Whilst it tells us what has happened to the organization, it may not tell us what is currently happening. Nor it is a good indicator of future performance.
It is too low. It is common for the current market value of an organization to exceed the market value of its assets. Tobin's-q measures the ratio of the value of a company's assets to its market value. The excess value is resulting from intangible assets. This kind of value is not measured by normal financial reporting.
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Cautionary note on using the Balanced Scorecard
You tend to get what you measure. People will work to achieve the explicit targets which are set. For example, emphasizing traditional financial measures may encourage short-term thinking. The Core Group Theory by Kleiner provides further clues on the mechanisms behind this. Kaplan and Norton recognize this, and urge for a more balanced set of measurements. But still, people will work to achieve their scorecard goals, and may ignore important things which have no place on their scorecard.  
Evolution of the Balanced Scorecard
In 2002, Cobbold and Lawrie developed a classification of Balanced Scorecard designs based upon the intended method of use within an organization. They describe how the Balanced Scorecard can be used to support three distinct management activities, the first two being management control and strategic control. They assert that due to differences in the performance data requirements of these applications, planned use should influence the type of BSC design adopted. Later that year the same authors reviewed the evolution of the Balanced Scorecard as shown through the use of Strategy Maps as a strategic management tool, recognizing three distinct generations of Balanced Scorecard design.
Book: Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton - The BSC: Translating Strategy into Action -
Book: Paul R. Niven - BSC Step-by-Step: Maximizing Performance and Maintaining Results -
Book: Paul R. Niven - BSC Step-by-Step for Government and Nonprofit Agencies -
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Assignment
Apply balance score card to an organization you know.
Study the balance score card applied by any organization.
Read the papers in international journals regarding balanced score card.
THANKS……….
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