Mar 10, 2015 | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Planning
Have you ever noticed at the mere mention of a strategy planning session packs of large yellow stickies suddenly appear in great abundance? There is no doubt that strategy panning is keeping Post-It Notes in business. I’m not suggesting for a moment that this is a bad...
Oct 8, 2014 | Strategic Planning, Strategy
How many times have you started a strategic planning session with a ‘brain-storm’ to think up a bunch of projects that will form the basis of a three to five year plan? How many times have you been asked by the executive to come up with a ‘game-changer’ that will blow...
Jul 28, 2014 | KPIs, Strategic Planning
It easy to build an XmR Chart is a KPI Software package like Spider Impact XmR Charts fall under the category of control charts used to monitor industrial or business processes. The X stands for ‘Individual’. In an industrial process this may be a quality of an item...
Jul 7, 2014 | Strategic Planning, Strategy
In a recent survey looking at scorecard usage it was discovered that 68% of the responders were using spreadsheets and 11% using free form documents to manage their scorecards. Only 19% were using dedicated software. When it comes to managing strategy and business...
Apr 28, 2014 | Strategic Planning
Over the past three months or so, Intrafocus Insight has examined the strategic planning process in light of the Balanced Scorecard Institute’s Nine Steps to Success™. It is worth stepping back to look at the fundamentals of the process itself. Strategic planning has...
Apr 8, 2014 | Strategic Planning
Nine Steps to Success™ – Step 9 Evaluation Evaluation is the Ninth step of the Balanced Scorecard Institutes framework for strategic planning and management, the Nine Steps to Success™. One of the key differences between the Balanced Scorecard strategic planning...