The Institute Way

Book Review – This month saw the publication of the much anticipated book ‘The Institute Way’. The book promises to ‘Simplify Strategic Planning and Management with the Balanced Scorecard’. It certainly lives up to its promise. It is no secret that Intrafocus is...

Video to explain the Balanced Scorecard

Press Release: 28th September 2013, Winchester, England. Intrafocus has produced an informative and very accessible stop-motion video to explain the Balanced Scorecard. The Balanced Scorecard methodology has been in use for over 20 years. It is significant in that it...

10 Reasons for Balanced Scorecard Automation

Most medium to large organisations still manage their activities in a largely unstructured way. They undertake annual or quarterly ‘strategy’ sessions and monthly reviews and hold weekly status updates. But the content associated with these activities often based on...

Nowhere to Hide

Life as a manager in any business, small medium or large, often revolves around PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets. (And of course the ever present e-mail systems, but that is another story). We have been conditioned to believe that effective...

Automating Business Analytics

Automating Business Analytics – Only 30% of potential users in an organization adopt CIO-sponsored analytics tools according to a recent Gartner user survey*. This figure coincides with data gathered from the Intrafocus business scorecard survey* which found...