A balanced scorecard is a tool of business which is used to
measure the management performance and improve various internal
business functions alongwith their outcomes. Balanced scorecards
are tupically used to measure and give feedback to
organizations.
The balanced scorecard is used to achieve the objectives,
measurements, initiatives, and goals of a business. With the help
of balanced scorecards, Companies can easily identify factors being
constraints in business performance.
Components-
- Learning and growth are studies through the
investigation of training and knowledge resources. It is concerned
with how efficiently the employees use the information for the
benefit of organization.
- Business processes are analysed by
investigating how well products are manufactured. It tracks any
gaps, delays, bottlenecks, shortages, or waste.
- Customer perspectives are analysed by watching
customer satisfaction with quality, price, and availability of
products or services. Customers provide feedback in this
aspect.
- Financial data, in this, financial information
like sales, profits, costs etc are analysed alongwith certain
ratios to understand the business performance.