Balanced Scorecard Diagnostics : Maintaining Maximum Performance Hardcover - 2005 - 1st Edition
by Niven, Paul R
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- Title Balanced Scorecard Diagnostics : Maintaining Maximum Performance
- Author Niven, Paul R
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, Somerset, New Jersey, U.S.A
- Date 2005-04-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # GRP79116569
- ISBN 9780471681236 / 0471681237
- Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 9.34 x 6.2 x 0.82 in (23.72 x 15.75 x 2.08 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Performance - Measurement, Organizational effectiveness - Measurement
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004025807
- Dewey Decimal Code 658.401
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Balanced Scorecard Diagnostics is a single-source guide to accurately analyzing the effectiveness of an organization's Balanced Scorecard, complete with the latest tools and know-how to implement corrective changes, ensuring your Balanced Scorecard is operating at maximum performance. Throughout this step-by-step guide, self-assessment questions help readers focus company discussions to critically examine their implementation efforts and propel Scorecard initiatives forward.
Balanced Scorecard Diagnostics features real-world case studies and practical tools that help you get started right away. It also:
- Examines the fundamental elements for effectively employing the Balanced Scorecard, including the executive sponsorship critical to implementing a Scorecard initiative
- Offers guidelines for effectively examining your Balanced Scorecard team, training and education regimen, and communication planning
- Provides advice on how to "personalize"your Strategy Map to evoke user acceptance, supplies diagnostics for reviewing the number of objectives on your map, and examines the cause and effect linkages that tell your strategic story
- Features expert coverage on testing your current performance measures by questioning the number of measures comprising your Scorecard and the vital concept of using measure results to learn, as well as helpful guidance on target setting and sources of target information. It also demonstrates how initiatives may be mapped to Scorecard objectives, ensuring your human and financial resources are directed towards the execution of strategy
- Provides cascading principles and tools to gauge the degree of alignment among Scorecards throughout your organization
- Examines the connection between the Balanced Scorecard and budgeting, compensation, and corporate governance and offers proven techniques for effectively forging these linkages
- Outlines various reporting mechanisms, including software and low-tech methods, and investigates how the Balanced Scorecard can be used as a centerpiece of your management review process
Balanced Scorecard Diagnostics is a must-read for everyone who wants to get the most out of the Balanced Scorecard in use at their organizations.