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The Emerging Capital Market for Nonprofits
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhy is it that effective business start-ups frequently grow into corporate giants, but effective new nonprofits rarely reach national scale? Because,... -
Measuring the Strategic Readiness of Intangible Assets (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMeasuring the value of intangible assets such as company culture, knowledge management systems, and employees' skills is the holy grail of accounting.... -
Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen most of the world's financial services giants were stumbling and retrenching in the aftermath of the 2008 recession, the asset management firm BlackRock... -
Measuring the Strategic Readiness of Intangible Assets
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMeasuring the value of intangible assets such as company culture, knowledge management systems, and employees' skills is the holy grail of accounting.... -
Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleWhat do companies like Rockwater, Apple Computer, and Advanced Micro Devices have in common? They’re using the scorecard to measure performance and set strategy. -
The Balanced Scorecard: Measures That Drive Performance
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleExecutives know that a company's measurement systems strongly affect employee behaviors. But the traditional financial performance measures that worked... -
Coming Up Short on Nonfinancial Performance Measurement
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleTracking things like customer satisfaction and employee turnover can powerfully supplement traditional bookkeeping. Unfortunately, most companies botch the job. -
Using Scorecards for Governance in the Corporate and Public Sector
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleI didn't anticipate that I would leave the country of Iceland with a renewed awareness of the different governance challenges faced by private and public... -
How to Implement a New Strategy Without Disrupting Your Organization
Change management Magazine ArticleStrategic dreams often turn into nightmares if companies start engaging in expensive and distracting restructurings. It’s far more effective to choose a design that works reasonably well, then develop a strategic system to tune the structure to the strategy. -
Office of Strategy Management
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThere is a disconnect in most companies between strategy formulation and strategy execution. On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of,... -
Saving Money, Saving Lives
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleIn 1996, Duke Children's Hospital was in serious trouble. Its $11 million annual operating loss had forced administrators to make cutbacks. As a result,... -
Lean Strategy
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleStrategy and entrepreneurship are often seen as polar opposites. Strategy means rigorously defining and pursuing one clear path, while entrepreneurship... -
How To Measure Your Company's Risk in a Downturn
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleThe crisis in financial institutions and the imminent failure of the US-based automobile producers have raised the issue about whether use of the Balanced... -
Start a Turnaround with a Strategy Map
Strategy maps show every employee precisely how to turn a struggling organization around. -
The Best-Performing CEOs in the World
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleFor years, people have bemoaned executives' zealous focus on short-term results, which often leads CEOs to make moves that undermine their firms' long-term... -
Managing Alliances with the Balanced Scorecard
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFully half of all joint ventures are a failure. That's worrying, given that partnerships and alliances are central to many companies' business models.... -
Having Trouble with Your Strategy? Then Map It (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleIf you were a military general on the march, you'd want your troops to have plenty of maps--detailed information about the mission they were on, the roads... -
Mission and Objectives
Effective performance measurement systems articulate strategic objectives, enabling leaders at all levels to make critical decisions. -
Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System
Finance & Accounting HBR BestsellerThe balanced scorecard revolutionized conventional thinking about performance metrics. When Robert Kaplan and David Norton first introduced the concept... -
8 Reasons Companies Don't Capture More Value
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleIt's not just about innovation; it's maximizing what you already have.
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Strategy Reading: Executing Strategy
Strategy & Execution Tool40.00View Details Executing Strategy introduces the principles of effective strategy implementation. The Reading emphasizes the interdependence of strategy formulation... -
Performance Management at Afreximbank
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Mobil USM&R (A1)
Finance & Accounting Case Study1.00View Details First of a two-part case on the development and use of a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) at Mobil's US Marketing and Refining Division. Split from the original... -
The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action
Finance & Accounting Book29.95View Details The Balanced Scorecard translates a company's vision and strategy into a coherent set of performance measures. The four perspectives of the scorecard--financial... -
First Commonwealth Financial Corp.
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details First Commonwealth Financial Corp., a financial institution in central and southwestern Pennsylvania, implemented the Balanced Scorecard for describing... -
New Profit, Inc.: Governing the Nonprofit Enterprise
Finance & Accounting Case Study6.95View Details New Profit, Inc. (NPI) is an innovative venture philanthropy fund. Founded by social entrepreneur Venessa Kirsch, NPI intends to raise large donations... -
Strategy That Works: How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap
Strategy & Execution Book35.00View Details How to close the gap between strategy and execution. Two-thirds of executives say their organizations don't have the capabilities to support their strategy.... -
Infosys' Relationship Scorecard: Measuring Transformational Partnerships
Leadership & Managing People Case Study6.95View Details This case analyzes Infosys' innovative approach to measuring performance in client relations. Infosys' strategy is evolving to build transformational... -
Compagnie Lyonnaise de Transport (A)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Describes the issues surrounding the funding of a centralized research service that supports two related divisions. The company has a very decentralized... -
Playgrounds and Performance: Results Management at KaBOOM! (C)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details An abstract is not available for this product. -
Western Chemical Corp.: Divisional Performance Measurement (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The president and controller of Western Chemical Corp. are discussing the best way to measure and report performance of foreign subsidiaries. One subsidiary... -
Barrington High School
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Addresses the use of a balanced scorecard (BSC) in a public school setting. Raises questions of who the customer is, what BSC elements are most appropriate,... -
Adapt Budgeting to a Changing Environment
Finance & Accounting Tool99.00View Details Discover how some organizations are rethinking budgeting to support holistic, more flexible ways of working and managing. -
China Sourcing Group: Delivering on Time
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2004, U.S.-based China Sourcing Group, which specialises in premium and gift products, established a sourcing office in Shanghai. The Shanghai office... -
Store24
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Illustrates how nonfinancial performance measures can be used to manage a business and evaluate the success of a strategy. -
AARP Foundation (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study9.95View Details AARP Foundation--a leading non-profit corporation--must create a new "Dashboard" performance measurement tool to track the effectiveness of its new strategic... -
CIGNA Property and Casualty Reengineering (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Reengineering was introduced at CIGNA Corp. in 1988. CIGNA entered a second wave reengineering effort through a major project at CIGNA P&C, one of CIGNA's... -
Transworld Auto Parts (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Transworld Auto Parts had to implement its new strategy flawlessly to survive the auto industry upheaval. The new CEO asked her leadership team to craft... -
Media General and the Balanced Scorecard (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details "Media General and the Balanced Scorecard (A) " (UV1135) describes the impetus for and the process of implementing a balanced scorecard (BSC) in a large,... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy (including featured article "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter)
Strategy & Execution Book24.95View Details Is your company spending enormous time and energy on strategy development, with little to show for your efforts? We've combed through hundreds of Harvard...
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Balanced Scorecard Report, September/October 1999, Volume 1, Number 1
Leadership & Managing People Other Article49.95View Details Includes these articles "Building a Strategy Focused Organization," "Organizational Fitness: The Context for Successful Balanced Scorecard Programs,"... -
Strategy Reading: Executing Strategy
Strategy & Execution Tool40.00View Details Executing Strategy introduces the principles of effective strategy implementation. The Reading emphasizes the interdependence of strategy formulation... -
Performance Management at Afreximbank
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Building a Strategy-Focused Organization
Finance & Accounting Other Article9.50View Details Strategy has never been more important than it is today, write Balanced Scorecard creators Robert Kaplan and David Norton. But the real driver of success... -
The Emerging Capital Market for Nonprofits
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhy is it that effective business start-ups frequently grow into corporate giants, but effective new nonprofits rarely reach national scale? Because,... -
Mobil USM&R (A1)
Finance & Accounting Case Study1.00View Details First of a two-part case on the development and use of a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) at Mobil's US Marketing and Refining Division. Split from the original... -
Motorola Government & Enterprise Mobility Solutions (GEMS), A Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame Profile
Strategy & Execution Other Article29.95View Details Motorola GEMS (Government and Enterprise Mobility Solutions), the preeminent brand in the global radio system market, integrated the Balanced Scorecard... -
Balanced Scorecard Report, Hall of Fame Issue
Strategy & Execution Other Article49.95View Details To celebrate the remarkable achievements of many best-practice organizations, the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative proudly announces the creation of the... -
Common Sense in Strategy Communication: Four Lessons from Canon USA
Communication Other Article9.50View Details At Canon USA, strategic awareness is serious business. Executives advocate top-down, bottom-up, and lateral communications and feedback. The commitment... -
The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action
Finance & Accounting Book29.95View Details The Balanced Scorecard translates a company's vision and strategy into a coherent set of performance measures. The four perspectives of the scorecard--financial...