How to do weightings across your balanced scorecard 3 of 3

For the previous two articles in this series I have made it clear that you should NEVER do weighting of measures across your balanced scorecard.  Never ever.  It is a waste of time, trust me.  I have seen people try it and it becomes an academic exercise with no real purpose.  It adds nothing to [...]

Never do weightings across your balanced scorecard 2 of 3

Following on from the previous post, where I said never do weighting across the measures of a balanced scorecard.  Someone suggested that in the public sector there is a weighting process where measures are rated poor, average,  good, and an overall score is given for the organisation based upon the individual ones.

My response:

What [...]

Never do weightings across your balanced scorecard 1 of 3

There was a question on Linkedin where someone was asking how to do weightings across the measures of a balanced scorecard.

My reaction:  Never ever try – it is a waste of time.

It is a pointless exercise that turns a meaningful report into an meaningless mathematical average from which you can deduce precisely nothing.

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