In: Operations Management
Understand the value of the balanced scorecard to gaining organizational alignment and support
A Balanced scorecard is a strategic model developed to enable the company to translate its vision, mission and strategy into reality. It evaluates the strategy of the company on 4 perspectives- financial, customer, internal business process, learning and growth. Traditional financial measures like ROI, sales growth, etc. do not give a holistic view of the company’s value proposition. So, balanced scorecard has been implemented in companies to efficiently measure the performance of the company.
A BSC helps in formulating the business strategy by focusing on what is essential and critical for the business’ performance. The balanced scorecard helps in maintaining as well as achieving the organization alignment and support towards performance. The different perspectives of the BSC help to give a holistic snapshot of the current and future aspirations of business. The financial perspective covers the target financials of the organization focusing on revenue and profits. The customer perspective gives an insight about how the business is catering to its customers, what is the service level of the company and what is the rate of customer satisfaction. The internal process perspective evaluates the current processes of the company and helps in drafting strategy about how well it can perform in future. The learning and growth perspective focuses on the intangible drivers of business i.e. human capital, organization capital and information capital.
The advantages of balanced scorecard are:
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