The Balanced Scorecard

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Jorge Gomes ◽  
Mário Romão
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Organizational Skills ◽  
The Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Customer Preferences ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Measurement Tools ◽  
Physical Assets ◽  
And Performance

Organizations are challenged to develop new organizational skills such as flexibility or expertise in order to quickly respond to changes in technology, competition and customer preferences. Companies cannot be competitive or successful if their business and information systems and technology (IS/IT) strategies are not strategic aligned. Nowadays, the importance of intangible assets is higher than traditional physical assets and performance measurement tools need to capture this new reality. Measuring organizational performance is a continuous challenge for both managers and researchers. Balanced scorecard (BSC) is a powerful tool that gives to managers a fast, but comprehensive view of the business including operational measures on customer satisfaction, organization's innovation, activities improvement, as well as financial measurements. In this paper the authors address the BSC and promote the discussion about the strengths and the limitations and pointing out new developments to overcome the today´s business trends.

Performance Measurement using Balance Score Card and its Applications: A Review

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shradha Gawankar ◽  
Sachin S. Kamble ◽  
Rakesh Raut
Keyword(s):  
Performance Measurement ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Strategic Change ◽  
The Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Balance Score Card ◽  
Measurement Framework ◽  
Score Card ◽  
And Performance

This paper aims to propose the idea of briefly explaining the balance scorecard by highlighting its use, application in depth. A critical enabler in achieving desired performance goals is the ability to measure performance. Despite the importance of accurately measuring organizational performance in most areas of academic research, there have been very few studies that have directly addressed the question of how overall organizational performance is or should be measured. Perhaps more importantly, none of these studies seems to have significantly influenced how overall organizational performance is actually measured in most of the empirical research that uses this construct as a dependent measure. The most popular of the performance measurement framework has been the balanced scorecard abbreviated as BSC. The BSC is widely acknowledged to have moved beyond the original ideology. It has now become a strategic change management and performance management process. The approach used in this paper is the combination of literature review on evolution of balance score card and its applications in various sectors/organizations/ areas. This paper identify that the balanced scorecard is a powerful but simple strategic tool and the simplicity of the scorecard is in its design. By encompassing four primary perspectives, the tool allows an organization to turn its attention to external concerns, such as the financial outcomes and its customers expectations, and internal areas, which include its internal processes to meet external requirements and its integration of learning and growth, to successfully meet its strategic expectations. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the balanced scorecard combined with application and strategy, which are now in a better position to begin to recognize managements expectations and to discover new ways to build value for workplace learning and performance within organization.

scholarly journals PENILAIAN KINERJA PERGURUAN TINGGI ISLAM DENGAN BALANCED SCORECARD AGAR TERWUJUD LEMBAGA PENDIDIKAN ISLAM BERBASIS MAQASID SYARIAH

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-131
Author(s):  
Zuraidah Zuraidah ◽  
Esy Nur Aisayah
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Performance Measure ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Internal Process ◽  
The Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Financial Perspective ◽  
Process Perspective ◽  
And Performance

In improving organizational performance, alignment an organizations and individuals in the organization is very important. Balanced Scorecard is one of the alternative performance measure that aims to combine the performance measures of financial and non-financial. Inspired by Kaplan and Norton, the concept was developed in four perspectives: financial, customer, internal process and learning and growth. This article discusses how to build a balanced scorecard, include determining the strategic objectives, measures, targets, initiatives, and implementing the balanced scorecard in public organizations. The performance assessment of Islamic Universities have: 1) strategic targets financial perspective: the ability to obtain funding and cost efficiency, 2) strategic objectives perspectives of stakeholders, namely the satisfaction and pride for students, 3) strategic objectives of internal process perspective is a internal business portal, process and policy procedures, financial systems and reporting, internal control and performance measurement, research and community service quality, 4) strategic objectives of learning and growth perspectives improve the professionalism of human resources, improve the quality and infrastructure facilities. Islamic university has 21 strategic objectives in the four perspectives of the balanced scorecard. As well as the maqasid syariah used as an indicator both in aligning the results of an assessment of the performance of the Islamic universities.

scholarly journals The relevance of learning and growth in organizations that adopt and do not adopt the BSC- characterization of the cultural profile

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (33) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cidalia Oliveira ◽  
José Carlos Pinho ◽  
Anabela Silva
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
The Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Competitive Environments ◽  
Management Indicators ◽  
Measurement Tools

Organizational culture plays a key role, as it characterizes the way organizations behave, decide and guide their own success. Nowadays, due to highly competitive environments, performance is considered a leading concept in management. In the same vein, learning and growth are also important in order to fulfill the requirements related to the defined performance. Regarding the global competition that organizations increasingly face, there are a number of strategic measurement tools that support managers in their decisions. In this sense, the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) with its four perspectives, goes beyond the traditional management indicators as it monitors performance, promotes strategic alignment and fosters organizational communication. To put it another way, BSC is considered one of the most relevant strategic management tools to improve organizational performance. Despite the recognized relevance of this research area, this link of organizational culture with the BSC Learning and Growth perspective is yet unexplored. This study examines first the differences in organizational culture within organizations with and without the BSC. Second, the study focuses particularly on the learning and growth perspective in organizations with and without the BSC. Results indicate that organizations with the BSC are more receptive to Learning and Growth. A possible explanation for these results may be associated to the multinational level of the sampled organizations, which leverage Learning and Growth in higher proportions. 

Design and planning of the balanced scorecard: A case study

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 217-227
Author(s):  
Ming-Hon Hwang ◽  
Hsin Rau
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Company Performance ◽  
Correct Process ◽  
The Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Strategy Planning ◽  
And Performance

In the industrial economy, evaluating company performance based on financial results was good enough. However, in the current globalized and highly competitive environment, maintaining long term competitiveness requires companies to engage in overall strategic planning and performance evaluation. The balanced scorecard is a tool or method for balancing an organization's performance and can react to situations where a company's direction becomes disoriented. This approach assists in strategy planning, process management, and performance evaluation from four perspectives, including financial, customer, internal process, and learning and growth. Good strategy planning provides companies with a correct management direction, correct process management ensures the efficient execution of plans, and correct performance evaluation illustrates the execution results. This study mainly focuses on how a large rubber company in Taiwan utilizes the balanced scorecard in its organization. As the technical perspective is important in the rubber keypad industry, besides the four above perspectives, this company has added the technical perspective. By introducing this company and its progress in implementing the balanced scorecard, this study hopes to provide other companies, especially rubber companies, with a planning direction and reference for the future implementation of the balanced scorecard.

scholarly journals Organizational Performance, Firm Size and Chief Executive Officer’s (CEO’S) Compensation for Firms Listed in Nairobi Securities Exchange, Kenya

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (06) ◽  
Author(s):  
Omamo Anne ◽  
Peter K’ Obonyo ◽  
Florence Muindi
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Firm Size ◽  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Financial Indicators ◽  
The Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the link between organizational performance, firm size and CEO’S compensation of firms listed at the NSE. Past studies on the determinants of CEO’S compensation revealed a lack of consensus to the explanation of increases in CEO’S compensation. While most of the studies confirm linkages between organizational performance and CEO’S compensation, they measured organizational performance using financial indicators of performance, the current study investigates the relationship between organizational performance and CEO’S compensation but differs from the previous studies by expanding the measures of organizational performance to include the balanced scorecard measures of financial indicators, customer satisfaction, internal processes and learning and growth elements of performance. Additionally, the study sought to find out the moderating role of firm size on the relationship between organizational performance and CEO’S compensation. The theoretical foundation of this study was based on agency theory. A conceptual model and conceptual hypothesis were drawn from literature and provided directions for this study. The study’s population constituted 60 firms listed at the NSE. Descriptive crossectional survey was adopted for this study. Primary data was collected to capture the opinion of board members on factors that determine levels of CEO’S compensation using semi structured questionnaire. Secondary data was gathered from the financial statements of the listed firms for 2015-2016 financial periods. Descriptive statistics and stepwise regression were used to analyze and interpret the collected data. The study revealed that there was significant and positive relationship between organizational performance and CEO’S compensation. The study further found that firm size had a significant moderating effect on the relationship between organizational performance and CEO’S compensation.  

scholarly journals The Balanced Scorecard: the illusion of maximization without constraints

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-15
Author(s):  
Morten Jakobsen ◽  
Rainer Lueg
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Performance Measures ◽  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Leading Indicators ◽  
Financial Indicators ◽  
Financial Success ◽  
The Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Overall Performance

The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) claims to maximize organizational performance through the management of different perspectives (e.g., financial, customers, internal processes, learning & growth). Most of the chosen measures are usually non-financial, as they are supposedly leading indicators of financial success. The developers of the BSC Kaplan and Norton see these perspectives as related, but not as linked to each other by accounting logic. Moreover, Kaplan and Norton recommend cascading the BSC across the organization by breaking up the BSC into sub-targets for each organizational unit.Inevitably, this can lead to situations where actors in an organization focus on a subset of non-financial indicators. In their attempt to maximize these indicators, unit-egoism may lead to sub-optimal overall performance of the organization. This is because the link from non-financial indicators at lower levels of the organization to the overall financial goals have been disjoined. This problem, however, has been largely ignored in the BSC-literature. Therefore, this paper addresses the rationality and limits inherent in the usage of multiple performance measures. For this, we conduct an analytical study based on a literature review.

The Influence of Knowledge Management Process Supported With Organizational Strategies on Organizational Performance via Organizational Innovation and Technology

2018 ◽  
pp. 711-751 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yakup Akgül ◽  
Mustafa Zihni Tunca
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Organizational Strategies ◽  
The Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Knowledge Management Processes

In this chapter, the authors aim to investigate the impact of knowledge management and strategy configuration coherence on İstanbul stock market businesses' innovation and organizational performance through a quantitative analysis carried out on a sample of 203 İstanbul stock market businesses. This study also identified the relationship of organizational performance from the standpoint of the balanced scorecard, which includes the customer-related, internal business process and perceptual financial aspects of organizational performance in İstanbul stock market businesses context. A survey was administered and a sample of 203 middle managers was analyzed using partial least squares (PLS-Smart 2.0) for inferential analysis and SPSS version 22 for descriptive insights. The results of the study revealed that business strategies influence the knowledge management processes fully or partially. Knowledge management processes influence the innovation partially. Innovation influences the organizational performance fully. Knowledge management processes and technology influence the organizational performance partially. Knowledge management processes, technology, and business strategies influence the organizational performance partially.

Sustainable Competitive Advantage With the Balanced Scorecard Approach

2019 ◽  
pp. 1415-1428
Author(s):  
Jorge Gomes ◽  
Mário José Batista Romão
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
The Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Fundamental Goal ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Internal Sources

Why are some firms more successful than others? This question has been intensely debated by strategic management researchers over the last 30 years. Competitive advantage is recognized as being the major cause for explaining top organizational performance and is a fundamental goal of academic strategic management studies. Recently, there has been an increasing amount of empirical research on the subject of competitive advantage and about distinguishing competitive advantage from organizational performance. The relevance of competitive advantage is not simply determined by external factors, but also by those internal sources that have been considered critical for successful organizations.

Supply Chain Performance Measurement and Organizational Alignment in the Digital World

2019 ◽  
pp. 128-154
Author(s):  
Ehap Sabri ◽  
Rohan Vishwasrao
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Performance Measurement ◽  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Maturity Model ◽  
Maturity Models ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
The Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Road Map ◽  
And Performance

The authors describe how organizations can leverage the maturity model approach in conjunction with foundational concepts of perspective-based performance evaluation models like the balanced scorecard (BSC) to define a comprehensive performance measurement framework. A maturity model by design provides a road-map to the next level of performance. In this chapter, the authors propose using maturity models as a structured way of identifying current capability or maturity level of any supply chain. The authors provide guidance on selecting the right “causal linkages” between supply chain objectives and performance measures. They then define a mechanism for specifying even more granular definitions of measures linked to strategic objectives, as the level of maturity progresses. In this chapter, the authors survey widely used supply chain/business process maturity models and current practices related to measuring operational metric. And then present a tiered framework for operational metric alignment and KPI governance based on perspective-based modeling design principles.

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