Balanced Scorecards in Charities, NFP and Social Enterprise – Three mistakes to avoid.

Mistaken approaches to Balanced Scorecard Perspectives for NfP organisations

To really create change and implement strategy in a charity, you need more than a simplistic scorecards.  You have to be thinking modern Balaced Scorecard approach: One that systematically supports strategy and change.   One impediment to their successful application is a failure to understand [...]

Do Balanced scorecards work for small businesses

There was a recent discussion on linkedin where someone suggested that the balanced scorecard was too expensive, complex and too long winded to implement, in small businesses.

I disagree, from a perspective of having designed many for small business and not-for profit organisations

If you take the view, as I do, that a strategy map [...]

Cascading balanced scorecards

I saw a question on cascading balanced scorecards recently and here was my reply

Here are some simple rules that I employed when I worked with Norton & Kaplan and have applied since

1) Cascade objectives rather than measures.

While some measures cascade many do not naturally translate across organisational boundaries or down through the [...]

Balanced Scorecard for Charities – a case study

Balanced Scorecards for a Charity

Over the last few years we have done quite a lot of work in the area of charities, foundations, not for profit and social enterprise balanced scorecards.

This week, Trust and Foundation News, June 09, The journal of the Association of Charitable Foundations, published a case study of the balanced [...]