Cascading balanced scorecards so you develop meaningful measures & KPIs

If you have ever tried to cascade measures on a balanced scorecard you have a problem that is common to many starting down the balanced scorecard route.

By developing the scorecard you look for the right measures that will cascade as meaningful drivers of the behaviours and results of others.  However, in making those steps [...]

Effective KPI development

Recently I ran a KPI development workshop for a Public Sector client.  The feedback was interesting:

“Seeing the whole picture enabled us to be more confident when dealing with business units, enhances our business knowledge and helps is pick out anomalies.” “We can adopt these principles of objective setting to see KPI measures in a new [...]

Lessons from another Strategic Planning workshop

One of the difficulties with strategic away days and strategic planning days is in their name: they are only a day.  Last week I had a day and a half with a team: A team that hardly new each other as they were coming from four different countries and Operating Companies within the  same group. [...]

Strategy Mapping is now available in the US and on Amazon.com

There was a short delay before Strategy Mapping for learning Organizations was available in the US, but checking in with Amazon.com it is now available.    You can link through to Amazon.com easily via this link.

Strategy maps are fundamental to effective balanced scorecard design and this book describes not simply a set of [...]

Strategy Mapping is now back in stock with Amazon UK

Checking in with Amazon UK again and they have re-stocked “Strategy Mapping for Learning organizations”.  So hopefully they will keep a good stock in place now they it is in demand.

So if you are looking for David Norton’s “Required reading”  then you can get it now.  Here is a quick link to more details [...]

Amazon have already sold out and are ordering new copies

A friend ordered a copy of my latest book, “Strategy Mapping for learning organizations” from Amazon earlier this week and discovered there were only two left.   Today I checked and there are on back order.

So a big thank you to all who are buying my book.  Presumably you also want agility in your [...]

Strategy Mapping is now available as an eBook

My publishers tell me that Strategy Mapping for Learning organizations is now available as an ebook.

If you are looking for an electronic version of my Book about strategy maps, balanced scorecards for agile organisations and how to design, implement and use them effectively, then there are several links available.

UK versions (priced in pounds) are available [...]

Strategy Mapping for Learning Organizations is now available

It’s official folks.  You can now order and get copies of my guide to developing, implementing and using Strategy Maps to create effective, agile, strategic balanced scorecards.

I give away a lot in this book. I recently met a colleague over dinner and we discussed Balanced scorecard design for over 2 hours.  Almost everything we talked about I could [...]

Making sense of Lean, Strategy and Business as Usual scorecards

Recently a client was having a few problems with their planning process.  How to engage with their managers, getting the tools of strategy and performance to make coherent sense as a whole, making the story of their strategy clear, making it easy to manage and deliver.

They had a really good lean deployment methodology which they had learnt  from [...]

Using the “Good Strategy – Bad Strategy” approach to develop a strategy

This post is about using the  approach in “Good Strategy Bad Strategy” to question, review and develop an organisation’s strategy.

I think  ”Good Strategy – Bad Strategy” by Richard Rumelt is one of the  best books on strategy I have come across.  I was one of the first to read it, and once [...]