From the beginning, it is important to understand why measuring an organization's performance is both necessary and vital. An organization operating without a performance measurement system is like an airplane flying without a compass, a Formula One race car driver guiding his car blindfolded, or a CEO operating without a strategic plan. The purpose of measuring performance is not only to know ...

In contemporary global and dynamically developing environment there is a need of the strategic planning fundamental. It is complicated, but at the same time important process from the point of view of continual keeping of competitive advantage. The aim of the paper is formulation of strategic goals for the needs of the small enterprises. There will be used Balanced Scorecard as a balanced syste...

Environmental issues have received considerable attention in the literature over the past few years; consider, for example, Burrit (2004), Hopwood (2009), Hubbard (2009), Masanet-Llodra (2006), and Schaltegger and Wagner (2006), to name but a few. Several factors have motivated companies to investigate and improve environmental performance (Länsiluoto&Järvenpää, 2008). Stakeholders, such as cus...

What managers increasingly need is a performance measurement capability that supports a long term, forwardthinking strategic view across the entire organisation. They need a performance measurement framework that provides a view across a range of measures that encompass all of the key issues for continued financial success. A measure framework that itself helps improve performance by changing w...

The goal of this paper is proposing a supply chain value dashboard in home appliance manufacturing firms to create more value for all stakeholders via balanced scorecard approach. Balanced scorecard is an effective approach that managers have used to evaluate supply chain performance in many fields but there is a lack of enough attention to all supply chain stakeholders, improving value creatio...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Oregon Health & Science University Family Medicine implemented a balanced scorecard within our clinics that embraces the inherent tensions between care quality, financial productivity, and operational efficiency. This data-driven performance improvement process involved: (1) consensus-building around specific indicators to be measured, (2) developing and refining the b...

The purpose of this paper was to design a conceptual model of sustainable outsourcingwith a balanced scorecard using the hierarchical analysis process. In this research, success factors of outsourcing were identified based on previous studies conducted inside and outside of the country. To ensure the validity of the factors, in addition to the content validity and the validity index, the reliab...

As the years have passed, the Balanced Scorecard, in some sense of this phrase, has been adopted on a worldwide basis. But the variations in conceptualizing and implementing it are so great that it is not always clear what, exactly, is being adopted and whether an intervention using the name "balanced scorecard" is having the impact its sponsors have envisioned. In this White Paper, I'll provid...