Strategic Balanced Scorecard in a manufacturing environment

If you are in manufacturing, or are simply looking for joined up working, then you will find this case study of an integrated sales, design and manufacturing strategy map and scorecard useful.

A few years ago we were approach by a manufacturing company wanting a balanced scorecard to help them with their strategy.  The MD [...]

What planning horizon for my Balanced Scorecard and my strategy

So what planning horizon should I use for my balanced scorecard?  1 year, 2 years, 6, 10 perhaps?

First recognise that different tools in the overall Balanced Scorecard approach to strategic management are for different planning horizons.  Tangible future for 10 years, strategy map for 2-5 years, and scorecards measures for 12-24 months, whilst targets [...]

Paul Moody CEO Britvic talks about the benefits of their Balanced Scorecard

This is an interview on the BBC Radio 4 programme, Bottom Line, where Paul Moody explains how they communicate their message to around 3000 employees.

It is as good an explanation as I have ever heard of what the balanced scorecard approach is all about.   Using the Balanced Scorecard approach to

1) Delivering a clear [...]

Should you use a Balanced Scorecard for Strategic Planning?

You might be wondering whether you should use a Balanced Scorecard for strategic planning process.  Here is my response to that very question.  Don’t use “a balanced scorecard”: use “The Balanced Scorecard Approach”.

The Balanced Scorecard approach is an effective, systematic approach to capturing strategy  (Strategy maps), Planning (the alignment between strategy maps and scorecards) [...]

NHS and GP Practices’ Balanced Scorecard: Its better but historic

In the last post on GP Balanced Scorecards in the NHS, I lamented that the GP Practice balanced scorecard from Southwark PCT provided a very limited view of the GPs practices in their area. In fact i was concerned that NHS balanced scorecards rarely pass the basic tests of a proper Balanced Scorecard.  They tend [...]

The Balanced Scorecard in the NHS and GP Practices: Oh no its not!

I was surprised to come across references to the King’s Fund research where they suggested that the new commissioning arrangements for GPs taking over fund holding might be managed using a “balanced scorecard”.

Frankly I was shocked.  You see the NHS do not understand the balanced scorecard approach at all.  Let me give you some [...]

Performance management and cultures: Nine tips

On a Linkedin discussion a Chief Executive from a Housing Association asked about how best to go about

a)  the process of identifying and measuring leading performance indicators.

b)  with practical experience of implementing performance management systems and cultures.

Having worked with Housing Associations in the past, here were seven quick tips (Which would apply [...]

Surely, one more beer/KPI won’t do any harm

Chatting with a client the other day I was describing how some management teams, without a disciplined method to select and choose measures, will  add extra measures into the  collection, “just to make things clearer”.   A problem that results in measure mania.

He choose took a different angle and moved the conversation onto the [...]

Changing the incentive and reward system using the Balanced Scorecard approach

In this video, (the third of three) Steve Lunn talks to Phil Jones about how he changed the incentive and reward system at Anglian Water using the Strategic Balanced Scorecard Approachas a central part of their Transformation project.

A significant part of the transformation programme carried out at Anglian Water, was changing the incentive and [...]

Transformation, the Balanced Scorecard, engagement and results

After several years of diversification, Anglian Water decided to revert back to its core regulated business and needed a transformation project to achieve it.  In this interview Steve Lunn describes how he used strategy maps and the balanced scorecard, amongst other techniques, as part of a successful two year transformation programme:   A programme that took [...]