Balanced Scorecards for Associations

Associations throughout the world have been using the Balanced Scorecard to drive breakthrough performance results and to measurably execute strategy. This whitepaper details how the Balanced Scorecard can be used with associations to help increase member value, align member organizations, and create alliances.

Balanced Scorecards for Foundations

The Balanced Scorecard was developed by Drs. Robert Kaplan and David Norton in 1992 to address a simple need: a more complete and balanced view of organizational performance. This whitepaper discusses how foundations and other funders can use the Balanced Scorecard to advance their missions.

Becoming a Strategy-Focused Organization

The Balanced Scorecard defines the critical objectives, measures, and initiatives that describe an organization’s strategy. The power of the Balanced Scorecard, however, comes in its use, not its development. The Strategy-Focused Organization is a framework for using the Balanced Scorecard to drive breakthrough results.

The Balanced Scorecard: A Strategic Chart of Accounts

The Balanced Scorecard is the “strategic chart of accounts” for organizations that focus on strategy. It captures both the financial and the non-financial elements of an organization’s strategy, and discusses the cause and effect relationships that drive business results. This whitepaper shows how the Balanced Scorecard can be used at nonprofit organizations.

The Mission Driven Strategy Map

The cornerstone to an effective Balanced Scorecard, or any strategic measurement system, is to identify strategic priorities and clarify the cause and effect linkages among them. Too many organizations become bogged down with a serial list of goals without an understanding of their relationship to one another, making it impossible to anticipate the downstream effect of performance trends.