Balanced Scorecard (BSC), which is used as a strategic evaluation tool, is a method of determining business performance using lagging and leading indicators on the basis of vision and strategies. The method suggests that business performance should be evaluated not only by using financial indicators but also simultaneously considering non-financial indicators. It has been revealed in the review...

As water resources become further stressed due to increasing levels of societal demand, understanding the effect of climate and landuse change on various components of the water cycle is of strategic importance. In this study we used a previously developed hydrologic model of the Black Sea Catchment (BSC) to assess the impact of potential climate and landuse changes on the fresh water availabil...

Article history: Received 3 January 2013 Received in revised form 7 May 2014 Accepted 7 May 2014 Available online 21 May 2014 This study investigates current status of balanced scorecard (BSC) application and its impact on hospital performance in China. A nationwide survey indicates that a large portion of Chinese public hospitals have adopted BSC in hospital administration at present. By apply...

2 BEng(Hons), PhD student, RSE, ANU. 3 BEng, Occupational Trainee, RSE, ANU. 4 Professor, School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476 Melbourne 3001, Australia 5 BE(Hons)/BSc, PhD, Lecturer, RSE, ANU. 6 BSc (Eng), MSc (Eng), Engineer. Abstract This paper describes the development of ray tracing models for a 500 m dish concentrator. Two distinct types of model h...

Management performance measurement is a complex task since multiple inputs and multiple outputs are involved in the process. This study attempted to develop a comprehensive framework to encompass the basic concepts of Balance Scorecard (BSC) and data envelope analysis (DEA) to measure the management performance. BSC and DEA are complemental to each other. On one hand, BSC can provide appropriat...

Some indexes are necessary for performance evaluation of a management system. Balanced scorecard (BSC) is used in order to extraction of these indexes for evaluating the necessary performances in the evaluation process. Utilization of BSC causes to prevent in increasing information and data. Furthermore, all of the important indexes are considered in evaluation performance.Data envelopment anal...

Ariane Galaup, PhD; Elisa Gomez, PhD; Rachid Souktani, PhD; Mélanie Durand, BSc; Aurélie Cazes, MD, PhD; Catherine Monnot, PhD; Jérémie Teillon, PhD; Sébastien Le Jan, PhD; Claire Bouleti, MD; Gaëlle Briois, Bsc; Josette Philippe, BSc; Sandrine Pons, PhD; Valérie Martin, BSc; Rana Assaly, PhD; Philippe Bonnin, MD, PhD; Philippe Ratajczak, PhD; Anne Janin, MD, PhD; Gavin Thurston, PhD; David M. ...

The traditional four-perspective Balanced Scorecard (BSC) model is suitable for a wide variety of organizations. Other dimensions analysis can be carried out and other perspectives considered in each BSC, depending on the specific characteristics organization or industry. This paper presents evidence that justifies validates inclusion new perspective: ‘environmental sustainability viticulture’i...

Ultrasonic backscatter coefficient (BSC) measurements were performed on K562 cell pellet biophantoms with cell concentrations ranging from 0.006 to 0.30 in the 10-42 MHz frequency bandwidth. Three scattering models, namely, the fluid-filled sphere model (FFSM), the particle model (PM), and the structure factor model (SFM), were compared for modeling the scattering from an ensemble of concentrat...

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is the National Supercomputer Facility in Spain, hosting MareNostrum, one of the most powerful Supercomputers in Europe. The Earth Sciences Department of BSC operates daily regional dust and air quality forecasts and conducts intensive modelling research for short-term operational prediction. This contribution summarizes the latest developments and curr...