November 2004 Adib E. Salem, director of Cedar Consulting, Middle East talks about the need for a cohesive plan for strategy implementation and development After having spent countless weeks and ...

Businesses establish a balanced scorecard to align all their company activities. This type of performance management framework adds non-financial measures to traditional financial metrics and gives ...

Harvard Business School professor Robert S. Kaplan is co-developer of both activity-based costing and the balanced scorecard. In 2006, Kaplan was elected to the Accounting Hall of Fame, and received ...

The originators of the Balanced Scorecard approach to management are at it again with a new book that urges executives to make strategy a continuing process that is embedded deeply throughout the ...

Despite the widespread use of very good financial/ERP systems and business intelligence tools, many companies are still struggling to achieve a single, balanced view of their performance. Two factors ...

My recent post Executing Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard generated a number of thoughtful comments from both users and critics of Robert Kaplan and David Norton's Balanced Scorecard (BSC) ...

In 1996, Harvard Business School Professor Robert S Kaplan and consultant David P Norton literally wrote the book on Balanced Scorecards. Along with Britpop, curtain hairstyles and lad culture, the ...

One of the challenges in becoming a strategic human resources business partner is to align HR plans with business plans. In some cases, goals and business strategies remain in the planning stage. A ...

When setting off on an expedition, a map is essential because it provides directions for reaching the destination. Similarly, leaders cannot complete the growth journey without an outline of their ...