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Putting the balanced scorecard to work

Robert S. Kaplan, +1 more
- 01 Sep 1993 - 
- Vol. 71, Iss: 5, pp 134-142
TLDR
The balanced scorecard as discussed by the authors shows four different perspectives in which to choose measures that can redefine a company's processes measurement system so short term and long term objectives are in balance with each other.
Abstract: 
In this article Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton report on the Balance Scorecard. Before the Balanced Scorecard companies have used various measurement systems that have made incremental improvements and concentrated mostly on the company's financials. The Balanced Scorecard shows you four different perspectives in which to choose measures that can redefine a company's processes measurement system so short term and long term objectives are in balance with each other.  When using the Balanced Scorecard a company is no longer needs to worry about small incremental improvements, but a new processes measurement system that will allow a company to get where it wants to go.

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Developing a Frameworkfor Derivative Sales within Strategic Business Unitsof German Savings Banks

Jan van Bracht
TL;DR: In this paper, the ontological and epistemological position of a constructivist was used to provide a better understanding of derivative sales in German savings banks by developing a conceptual framework exploring and explaining the critical factors for establishing a business-level strategy against the background of the crisis.
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Designing Composite Entrepreneurship Indicators: An Application Using Consensus PCA

Diego Bernardo Avanzini, +1 more
- 01 Jun 2009 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present several existing indicators of entrepreneurial activity (such as the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, Entrepreneurhip Barometer, FORA Entrepreneursity Index, OECD and Economic Commission sets of indicators, among others) and several variables that have been evaluated.

Adoption of the balanced scorecard in local government organizations: an exploratory study / Sujatha Perera, Herbert Schoch, and Saba Sabaratnam

Sujatha Perera
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the extent of adoption of the balanced scorecard in local governments and the factors that appear to influence its adoption, and examined its use in local government.

Strategies for Improving and Sustaining Real Estate Development Business Performance in Nigeria

Obiora Timothy Anene
TL;DR: Anene et al. as discussed by the authors explored the strategies that successful business managers used to improve and sustain their business performance in Nigeria by using the 7FE business process management framework, which was the conceptual real estate development (RED) businesses are critical to closing the housing deficit gap in Nigeria.
Journal ArticleDOI

Identifying and exploiting the collaboration factors inside SMEs networks

Dario Antonelli, +1 more
- 01 Nov 2011 - 
TL;DR: A procedure for the analysis of the collaborative behaviour inside industry networks by building a meta-model of the network organisation and evaluating the potential directions of collaboration independent from the specific network type is introduced.