Regional development has been playing an increasingly important role in the activities of higher education institutions (HEIs). The planning of regional strategies is notably different from that of other strategies, because there is no single institution or organisational unit who owns the strategy. This study presents techniques for networked and virtual organisations to gain commitment to a c...

This paper presents the possibility to utilize Balanced Scorecard knowledge in software process improvement. The research is a case study in a Finnish software company where the author has been working as a quality manager and a product manager. Main focus is to introduce aspects of making visible the business factors of software process improvement steps. The balanced scorecard approach is int...

The management of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software includes two main tasks: the implementation and the use of this comprehensive software. The Balanced Scorecard, a framework originally developed in order to structure the performance measurement of an enterprise or a department, can be used for the evaluation of these tasks. Adapting the approach of the Balanced Scorecard and adding ...

“Baldrige? Six Sigma? Lean? Balanced Scorecard? We don’t have time for all of these initiatives! Let’s just pick one and go with it!” How many times have you heard (or perhaps even said) something similar to this? The statement suggests the initiatives are equivalent. They are not. As has been discussed earlier in this book, the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence represent a comprehen...

The balanced scorecard (BSC) is a strategic planning and management system that has wide applications in manufacturing and service industries. The main goals of BSC are to align business activities to the vision and strategy of the organization, improve internal and external communications, and monitor organization performance against strategic goals. In this study, performance measurement is d...

The balanced scorecard represents a technique used in strategic management to translate an organization’s mission and strategy into a comprehensive set of performance measures that provide the framework for implementation of strategic management. This article develops an incremental approach for decision-making by formulating a specific balanced scorecard model utilizing time-driven activity-ba...

this research has done in order to identifying the human resource performance key indicator; qom province electricity distribution company with regard to integrated balanced scorecard approach of human resource and analytic hierarchy process .the research method of the article is descriptive and library field data collecting. balanced scorecard (bscj translated the company visions and strategie...

The objective of this paper is proposing a developed balanced scorecard approach to measure supply chain performance with the aim of creating more value in manufacturing and business operations. The most important metrics have been selected based on experts’ opinion acquired by in-depth interviews focused on creating more value for stakeholders. Using factor analysis method, a survey research h...

Die Balanced Scorecard ist ein Planungsund Steuerungsinstrument, das in den 1990er Jahren von Kaplan und Norton in den USA entwickelt wurde. Dieses Managementkonzept sollte dazu beitragen, die Unzulänglichkeiten klassischer – vornehmlich finanzbuchführungsbasierter – Kennzahlensysteme zu beseitigen, indem eine umsetzungsorientierte Steuerung bei Bezugnahme auf die formulierten Ziele des Unterne...

need to progress is the factors contributing to development and trying to meet these requirements cause which organization will lead to the development. organizations performance evaluating, is one of the most powerful management tools that we can by that, obtained required information of organization status .in this study, a performance evaluation model based on balanced scorecard (bsc), which...