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. [...]

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 [...]

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) [...]

Principles of Effective Balanced Scorecards Part 6

Principles of Effective Balanced Scorecards Part 6

“Of course we have a scorecard. I designed it at home the other evening”

Very early on in my Balanced Scorecard career I heard a lovely story. Some of my colleagues had been to see a potential client about some scorecard work. It turned out he had one [...]