In the present era of emerging intense global competition, organizations’ are facing increasingly knowledgeable and demanding customers and activist shareholders which have changed the competitive environment from competition based on ability to invest in and manage physical assets to competition based on knowledge and the ability to exploit intangible and soft assets. In this changed business ...

On July 14, 2015, ProPublica published its Surgeon Scorecard, which displays "Adjusted Complication Rates" for individual, named surgeons for eight surgical procedures performed in hospitals. Public reports of provider performance have the potential to improve the quality of health care that patients receive. A valid performance report can drive quality improvement and usefully inform patients'...

OBJECTIVE To determine the ability of the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO) Scorecard to predict changes in health care expenditures. METHODS Individual employee health care insurance claims data for 33 organizations completing the HERO Scorecard from 2009 to 2011 were linked to employer responses to the Scorecard. Organizations were dichotomized into "high" versus "low" scoring...

Executive Summary : This presentation proposes a conceptual framework for assessing the business effectiveness and quality of Information Management (IM)Services in organizations by using a Corporate Information Management scorecard. The presentation applies the ‘Balanced Scorecard’ tool used by organizations typically for management strategy and performance measurement in the area of Informati...

PROBLEM After the Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004, the International Organization for Migration constructed temporary health clinics to provide medical services to survivors living in temporary accommodation centres throughout Aceh, Indonesia. Limited resources, inadequate supervision, staff turnover and lack of a health information system made it challenging to provide quality primary he...

The socio-technical theory is concerned with human well-being; it is democratic, humanistic and provides both freedom and knowledge to those who are part of it. Balanced scorecard is an approach that assesses whether the organization is meeting its objectives in terms of vision and strategy. It measures four perspectives: financial, customer, internal business processes and innovation & learnin...

How well does Prizma’s poverty scorecard identify poor clients? The scorecard applies 0/1 weights to seven simple and inexpensive-to-collect indicators to give a score from 0 (most likely poor) to 9 (least likely poor). The scorecard has good power, not only for ranking clients by relative poverty but also for identifying the likelihood that a client is poor by an absolute standard. While pover...

The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is a very powerful and successful strategic performance management tool. This management white paper describes a BSC in simple terms. The paper outlines the four perspectives of a Balanced Scorecard and explains the importance of Strategy Maps. It shows how many organisations use the Balanced Scorecard today and describes the key benefits of a scorecard implementati...

The comprehensive assessment model considers the financial and non-financial aspects as balanced scorecard. Also, for more comprehensive results of the investigation, four aspects of the balanced scorecard were used and then by using fuzzy Delphi technique and experts' opinions, the standard aspects of each were achieved in two stages. To determine the importance of each aspect of BSC, the proce...

The balanced scorecard (BSC), initially developed by Kaplan and Norton, is a performance measurement system that supplements traditional financial measures with the criteria that measure performance from three additional perspectives: customer perspective, internal business perspective and innovation and learning perspective. In recent years, the balanced scorecard has been applied to informati...