Destaco:
"What are Balanced Scorecards being used for?.
Balanced Scorecard’s primary reported role continues to be supporting the implementation of strategy.
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Strategic management as the major use is consistent with the trend we see for the Balanced Scorecard methodology to be a key element in organisations’ strategy execution. Initiatives are a key part of strategy execution, and so interest in improving the reporting of these is not unexpected.
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Balanced Scorecard has become established as the primary tool for reporting on strategy implementation / execution progress to Executive level managers, and this continues to be the case. But the increased interest in Balanced Scorecard as a mechanism for incentive payments is a surprise.
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Balanced Scorecards work by informing and improving decision-making, so they must be reported and reviewed frequently. It is encouraging that over three-quarters of organisations report using their Balanced Scorecards at least once every three months.
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This year a larger majority (63%) of organisations reported using Balanced Scorecards based on the more effective 3rd Generation designs.
The Balanced Scorecard designs shared some common features:
• they had between 2 and 6 perspectives (average 4), using a mix of sector- specific names and common names for these perspectives
• they contained on average 10 strategic objectives and 14 initiatives, and
• they had on average 21 measures (i.e. 2.1 per objective)."