4G Balanced Scorecard
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Learning from failure: A checklist to improve how you learn
Do you learn from failure? Wouldn’t it be better to learn, before they fail? This article is about how to better learn from your projects, and be better at implementing those “Lessons learnt”. It includes a checklist that a client found really...Is “How we manage” missing from our strategic thinking?
Something has been bothering me for a while. I have noticed that organisations rarely consider “How we manage” when they are thinking about their strategy. If they do think about how we manage, it is not explicit. It is not management by...4G Strategic Balanced Scorecard Principles: How we think about strategy
Clients are asking us, “How do we move away from an annual strategy process, to treating strategy as a process of continuous learning?” Traditional Strategy: deliberate, top down and annual First, let us look at how strategy is commonly described. Strategy...Organisational agility requires two preceding capabilities
Many organisations want to be agile. The problem is that agility requires two earlier steps. You can have an agile organisation, but if that agility is never exploited, then it is a wasted resource. Organisational agility is in fact a three-part problem (and...Upside down organisation charts: Using them effectively
Upside down organisation charts are re-drawn with a purpose: to invite executives to think differently about their organisation and their role. This article explains how to draw them upside down (it is not simply turned upside down) and how the changed perspective...Test a Balanced Scorecard to see if it is useful
How do you test a balanced scorecard to see if it will be informative, useful and effective? With over 20 years experience designing and implementing balanced scorecards I have one key test that usually reveals how the balanced scorecard has been designed and is...Read moreSymbolic strategy maps present the strategy as a simpler picture than the full, detailed strategy map.