Our blog articles about strategy, people, performance, decision making, balanced scorecards and culture change
Here is a way into my blog articles, over 300 of them: It is structured into major topics areas linking to the most articles in each topic area. These cover:

- The Strategy Zone
- Communicating & socialising Strategy: An Executive’s guide
- The Decision Improvement Zone:
- The Culture & Behavioural Change Zone
- The Performance Management Zone: A guide to understanding the management of performance
- Modern Balanced Scorecard Zone
- The 4G Strategic Management Zone
- How we look at our organisations and how we manage: The Paradigm Shift Zone
- Thought provoking articles about how we manage our organisations
Simply scroll down through the various topic areas and articles…
1) Strategy choice, approach and implementation articles: Most recent first
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2) Communicating & Socialising Strategy articles: Most recent first
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3) Decision making and decision taking articles: Most recent first
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4) Performance management, various types and perspectives. Most recent articles first
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5) How to achieve Cultural and Behavioural change. Most recent articles first
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5) Modern Balanced Scorecards. Most recent articles first
Measuring sustainability: don’t take a simplistic approach
How do you measure sustainability using the Balanced scorecard and an Environmental Strategy Map This question actually raises two separate questions How best to measure sustainable and environmental activities and strategy? How do I represent them on my strategy map...
Getting buy-in for Balanced Scorecards – practical advice
Getting buy-in for balanced scorecards can be difficult. Having helped around 60 organisations implements such an approach, there are various ways of getting buy-in for balanced scorecards, depending on that organisation's needs. Here is some practical advice. “I have...
Principles of Effective balanced scorecards: The Chief Executive’s balanced scorecard
How do you make sure that this is the Chief Executive's balanced scorecard? How do you make sure it is useful for them. How do you get energy and importance behind the balanced scorecard design project. Now you can certainly do scorecard projects without the...
Principles of Effective Balanced Scorecards: Ownership & Collective understanding
If you want a successful balanced scorecard that get used and informs decisions, you need balanced scorecard ownership and collective understanding. I do not recommend the alternative: "Of course we have a scorecard. I designed it at home the other evening". ...
Principles of Effective Balanced Scorecards: Explain the strategy
Previously I talked about a useful test of any scorecard or strategy map is, "Can I tell the strategy from this?". You will have already realised that if you cannot, then that begs the question, "What purpose is this serving? "What effect it is having on the...
Principles of Effective Balanced Scorecards: scorecards never start with measures
It is important to understand why scorecards never start with measures. It seems the obvious place, just put some measures on the balanced scorecard and we are done. However it is more important to understand why you want to measure something, and how that...
6) Fourth Generation Strategic Balanced Scorecards and modern methods of management. Most recent articles first
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7) Paradigm shifts that affect our organisations and how we manage.
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7) Thought provokers, designed to make you consider thinking differently about how we manage and our organisations:
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