This text shows how managers can use the balanced scorecard technique to mobilize their employees and fulfil the company's mission. The authors demonstrate how senior executives in industries such as banking, oil and retailing are using the technique to evaluate current performance and target future performance based on financial and non-financial criteria such as customer satisfaction, internal processes and employee learning, and growth.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Measurement and Management in the Information Age 2. Why Does Business Need a Balanced Scorecard? Part One-Measuring Business Strategy 3. Financial Perspective 4. Customer Perspective 5. Internal-Business-Process Perspective 6. Learning and Growth Perspective 7. Linking Balanced Scorecard Measures to Your Strategy 8. Structure and Strategy Part Two-Managing Business Strategy 9. Achieving Strategic Alignment: From Top to Bottom 10. Targets, Resource Allocation, Initiatives, and Budgets 11. Feedback and the Strategic Learning Process 12. Implementing a Balanced Scorecard Management Program Appendix: Building a Balanced Scorecard Index About the Authors

About the Author

Robert S. Kaplan is the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Accounting at the Harvard Business School. David P. Norton is the president of Renaissance Solutions, Inc. They are the authors of three seminal Harvard Business Review articles on the Balanced Scorecard.