BACKGROUND Teamwork promotes enhanced outcomes in various business sectors but can be hampered when there are organizational "silos." This study describes an intervention that fostered teamwork among 4 separate respiratory therapy (RT) departments within a single hospital. METHODS An initial retreat of leaders of the 4 RT groups indicated a common goal of developing a scorecard by which RT ou...

To provide valuable support for successful decision-making, managers need a balanced set of financial and nonfinancial measures that represent different requirements, strategic goals, strategies, resources, and capabilities and the causal relationships between these domains. The balanced scorecard is such a measurement system. As an open system the balanced scorecard facilitates the considerati...

The role of IT departments in organizations has changed considerably in recent years. This is mainly due to the need to develop competitive advantages to a business to remain a market leadership. Systems, being part of this technology, have become the core of many critical business processes, and this in turn has fostered the growth of systems development companies. However, in order for client...

The concept of the Balanced Scorecard has been widely implemented in various business fields, both goods and services, so that by studying this reader can understand meaning, purpose, benefits, factors are key to successful implementation Scorecard. purpose study is implement at SMK NEGERI 6 Garut. This research method uses a qualitative approach with library methods, books, articles, journals,...

Credit scoring allows for the credit risk assessment of bank customers. A single scoring model (scorecard) can be developed for the entire customer population, e.g. using logistic regression. However, it is often expected that segmentation, i.e. dividing the population into several groups and building separate scorecards for them, will improve the model performance. The most common statistical ...

The current balanced scorecard literature suggests that a link should exist between lagging and leading measurements of non-financial performance perspectives and financial performance measures. This work designed a dynamic integrated model for examining the influence of strategic links on the Taiwanese high-tech industry, and to examine the relationships among the strategic perspectives of the...

The adoption of the Balanced Scorecard philosophy of measure, monitor and manage by The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) has resulted in SickKids' staff understanding, appreciating and ultimately being able to accept the enhanced transparency and accountability around performance, at both the system and hospital levels. The leadership of the organization observed these differences after in...

this paper focus on the impact on the performance of health workers at village and township levels in the provision of a government stipulated package of basic public health service, which adopted the performance-related contracts mode.the concept of balanced scorecard was adopted and developed to gather the 11 evaluation indicators distributed in four quadrants. these were implemented using on...

This paper investigates the current state of corporate Australia’s balanced scorecard practices and the plan to implement it in near future. An investigation of top 50 Australian companies surveyed revealed that only 33 percent companies have implemented balanced scorecard (BSC) and 25 percent companies are planning to implement it in future. The results indicate that management of Australian c...

This study aims to adopt the balanced scorecard approach to improve the measurement and evaluating of human resources performance in the USA public sector. We use a balanced scorecard approach in terms of innovation, learning and growth for employees feeling to contribute to the governmental agency ends. Innovation, learning and growth may represent constitutive elements of organizational strat...