Acerca do BSC

"What does a Balanced Scorecard actually do?.
The Scorecard provides a framework for translating an abstract strategy into specific, concrete objectives, measures, indicators and actions. It combines a ‘balanced’ (cause/effect) view with a ‘scoring’ (measuring/tracking) view. It focuses on aligning the goals of business units, teams and individual employees with the company’s overall business strategy. A great Balanced Scorecard breaks a business strategy down into specific and measurable chunks. It also keeps the long-term strategic goals visible on the radar. The ultimate goal of a Balanced Scorecard is to experience Strategy Execution as a continuous process. Today, the BSC provides much more than multi-view measurement; in many organisations, it’s an essential management system and a cornerstone of successful Strategy Execution.By helping organisations detect problem areas and ensuring that managers and employees focus their energies in the right areas, the Balanced Scorecard also becomes an important foundation for operational management. ... The Balanced Scorecard should not be viewed as a controlling instrument. Its ultimate goal is to create focus for what’s really important for the future, ensuring that all employees contribute to the realisation of the company’s mission and strategic goals. Measurement is a means to reaching a goal and not a goal in itself.
The Scorecard is also about learning and teaching; about your strategy, the assumptions you have made regarding winning in the marketplace and the value proposition you have put forward. It can be a crucial lever to communicating your strategy."

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"Reach for the head, heart and hands"

"Reach for the head, heart and hands
The communication of strategy and its execution comes in different shapes and forms: from individual conversations during objective setting over group interactions around the Balanced Scorecard, and from intranet postings to writing a memo regarding a strategy shift. But they all serve one purpose: to get the strategy into the heads, hearts and hands of the people.
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Heads, hearts and hands

• Heads: You want everyone to understand the strategy.

• Hearts: You want everyone to be motivated by the strategy.

• Hands: You want everyone to take action to get things done.

Strategy communication is crucial to strategy execution success.
Communication of the strategy and its execution is an essential, ongoing component of your implementation efforts. And although some elements might seem trivial and simplistic on the surface as everyone can communicate to some degree, the reality shows that it demands substantial skill and knowledge to communicate the relevant information to the desired person that results in the required action.
So the question isn’t so much if you communicated but how well. In other words, don’t focus on the question ‘Was my message communicated?’ but rather on ‘Was my message effective?’. Look beyond the send button and shift your focus to the receiving end."

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"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

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Estratégia = Alinhamento na acção

"2. Strategy Execution definition.
There are quite a few different strategy execution definitions. When I define what strategy execution, I like to start from a famous Mintzberg quote.
Professor Henry Mintzberg is an internationally renowned strategist. He has written more than 150 articles and 15 books on business and management. One of Mintzberg’s insights, “Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions,” helps us to better understand how to define strategy execution.
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A long time ago, I learned this phrase by heart—but it took me 5 years to really grasp the point of it. The trick I use to understand Mintzberg’s cryptic statement is to approach decisions in 2 steps. First, there’s the overall decision - the big choice - that guides all other decisions. To make a big choice, we need to decide who we focus on - our target client segment - and we need to decide how we offer unique value to the customers in our chosen segment. That’s basic strategy stuff. But by formulating it this way, it helps us to better understand the second part, the day-to-day decisions - the small choices - that get us closer to the finish line. When these small choices are in line with the big choice, you get a Mintzberg Pattern.
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So if strategy is a decision pattern, strategy execution is enabling people to create a decision pattern. In other words, strategy execution is helping people make small choices in line with a big choice. That’s my strategy execution definition.
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This notion requires a big shift in the way we think about execution. As a strategist looking at strategy execution, we should imagine a decision tree rather than an action plan. Decisions patterns are at the core of successful strategy journeys, not to-do lists. To improve execution speed and accuracy, we should shift our energy from asking people to make action plans to helping them make better decisions."[Moi ici: É claro que uma estratégia, IMHO, precisa de ser convertida em planos de acção, em iniciativas, em acções a desenvolver , por quem, até quando. No entanto, a caminho do futuro desejado, durante a viagem, surgem imprevistos, surge a necessidade de enfrentar situações não previstas, situações novas, situações difíceis. Aí, a rapidez de actuação é fundamental... Blitzkrieg, Schwerpunkt (parte I e parte II)]

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“I don’t know what I can do to help”

"3.[Moi ici: Grandes estrategas] They facilitate our decision process
When employees complain about the company strategy, they say things like “The strategy is not clear”, or “Our organization doesn’t have a strategy.” But the underlying point they want to make is “I don’t know what I can do to help”.
Bad strategists don’t pay attention to this hidden message. If the strategy message is clear for them, they assume it’s clear for everyone.
Great strategists strive to get everyone onboard the strategy ship. They will provide strategy information in a language people understand. They provide prioritization guidelines to align day-to-day choices with the big choice."

Como não recordar as palavras de Spender sobre a retórica como ferramenta de persuasão. Persuasão não para iludir, não para enganar, mas para que o outro perceba qual o intuito, qual a viagem, qual o racional, qual o seu papel e contributo.
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Como escrevi em "Acerca da execução de uma estratégia":

"Por isso, o ponto de Spender... a importância da retórica, da persuasão, da capacidade de pôr as pessoas que vão executar a estratégia, a percebê-la, a apoderar-se dela, mais do que transmitir, embebe-la no sistema de pensamento de quem está no terreno. Mais tarde ou mais cedo essa pessoa vai enfrentar uma situação imprevista... como se age alinhado com a estratégia nesse caso?"

Se não for capaz de reinterpretar a estratégia, para essa nova situação, quanto perderá a organização?
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Gosto de cruzar estratégia com o mapa dos processos e, pedir a cada pessoa com uma função, que descubra como pode contribuir para a execução da estratégia. Recordar "Uma forma de lidar com a perspectiva de recursos e infra-estruturas de um balanced scorecard", "Há funções mais importantes que outras." e "Estratégia e pessoas (parte II)"
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"Don’t ever stand still"

"6. Don’t ever stand still
Having a good strategy means that you have arrived. Competitors move, customers’ needs and behaviours change, technology evolves. One crucial element to determine a future path for your company is to predict these evolutions and trends and incorporate this thinking into the strategy-building process. [Moi ici: Ou experimentar, fazer pequenas experiências, para ver o que resulta, o que se aprende, o que emerge] If you don’t, you can miss out on new value that is created in the industry or even left behind and get into trouble. Think about the smart phone and Nokia and you’ll understand."

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"Learn to say NO"

"5. Learn to say NOIf you have clearly defined what you go for – a clear value proposition for a specific client segment (who) and a set of distinct, unique activities in your value chain to offer the needs of this client group (what), you will find out that there are lots of things that you are not going to do. There will be customers that you are not going to serve, activities that you are not going to perform and services/products that you will not be offering. In strategy, choosing what not to do is equally important. Using the words of the founding father of modern strategy thinking, Michael Porter: “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do”. Each strategy should also have a section where it clearly states the noes."

Como não recordar aquela lição de Agosto de 2008:

"The Most Important Orders are the Ones to Which You Say 'No'

É preciso muita coragem para assumir isto.
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"Strategy = Choice"

"4. Strategy = Choice.
In my eyes, this is the most simple strategy definition. You need a clear choice of WHO you are going to serve and a clear choice of HOW you are going to serve those clients. It’s about connecting the outside world – the demand side – with your company – the supply side. Or in fancy terms: you need a value proposition for a specific customer segment and to develop unique activities in the value chain to serve them. The key word is ‘choice’. You cannot be everything to everybody. You want to target a limited segment of potential buyers with the same needs. Next, you are going to tailor your activities in such a way that they meet these needs. Or in fancy terms: you want to tailor your value chain – your company’s activities – to your value proposition. Strategic innovation is the process to make those choices – defining a new who and how for the organisation."

Muito bom, sumo de categoria.
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"Strategy = compete for profit"

"2. Strategy = compete for profit
Business is not about having the largest market share or about growing fast. It’s about making money. ‘I want to grow my business’ is not a strategy. [Moi ici: Recordar o truque de Roger Martin, uma estratégia é uma escolha, se o oposto dessa escolha for estúpido então não é uma estratégia] ‘I want to grow my business’ is the same as saying, ‘I want to be rich’. Those things (unfortunately) don’t happen by themselves. Growing is not a strategy, it’s a consequence. When someone includes growth in their strategy, there should be an orange light starting to blink. [Moi ici: Volume is vanity, Profit is sanity] That does not mean that you cannot use the word ‘growth’. I use it a lot in the analysis phase – for example, when you talk about growth areas of the business or when you look for growth platforms – areas where you can reach potential that will give you additional profit."

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"Compete to be unique, not to be the best"

"1. Compete to be unique, not to be the best
Strategy is not about being the best, but about being unique. [Moi ici: Parece a conversa de ontem numa empresa, como podemos ser diferentes, como podemos fazer a diferença] Competing to be the best in business is one of the major misconceptions about strategy. [Moi ici: Recordar a regra de Roger Martin "You only know that you've made a real strategic choice if you can say the opposite of what that choice is, and it's not stupid." Competir para ser o pior faz sentido? Não! Então, competir para ser o melhor não é uma escolha, não é uma estratégia] And if you only remember one tip from this list, it should be this one. Many leaders compare competition in business with the world of sports. There can only be one winner. But competing in business is more complex. There can be several winners. It does not have to be a zero sum game – you win, I lose or vice versa. Within a single industry, you can have several companies beating the industry average, each with a distinctive, different strategy. They are no direct threat to each other. There can be several winners. So the worst possible approach to strategy is to seek out the biggest player in the industry and try to copy everything they do."[Moi ici: Sublinhado que logo me fez recordar o que penso que acontece neste sector]

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