The dominant role of Balanced Scorecard is to support strategy implementation (again!)
The latest results from our annual Balanced Scorecard Usage Survey are here!
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Why you should use a Strategy Map
There is a lot of evidence to suggest that strategy maps are key to successful strategy implementation. But why? Read our latest blog post to find out.
Effective Strategic Management in Four Steps
Most organisations have a strategy but fail to achieve the strategic changes they hope for. In this feature we look at the components of an effective strategic…
Context as a factor in strategy execution
For a strategy to be effective it needs to be implemented. It may sound like a statement of the obvious, yet today, 30 years after it was first flagged as an…
Strategy Execution - Help or Hype?
For the last couple of years it seems like ‘Strategy Execution’ has become a more commonly used term within the broad field of strategic management. But…
A Key to Effective Strategy Implementation
It is known that most strategic plans fail to deliver. Some of the time it is because the strategy itself is not a good one, but more often than not the reason…
Five Steps to Achieve Strategic Success
A set of simple, practical steps that you can take to improve your strategy implementation. In March 2015 the Harvard Business Review reflects upon a weakness…
Three Balanced Scorecard Usage Insights from the 2GC survey
2GC has been running its annual Balanced Scorecard Usage survey every year since 2009. It remains the only one of its kind and so also remains a unique source…
Balanced Scorecards help managers to implement strategy more effectively
For each of the last ten years 2GC has undertaken an annual survey of Balanced Scorecard Usage, to find out who uses Balanced Scorecards, what they are used…
What is Agile Performance Management?
The last few years have seen an explosion of interest in management circles for the use of word constructs that include ‘agile’. Recently the phrase…
Engaged employees contribute more to your strategy
Employees who clearly understand how they contribute to the achievement of a strategy are more productive: simply ensuring that they have goals that are aligned…
Looking Forward - To Renew or To Reinvent
Although it is easy to focus on the “what” - what things look like and what they do, to understand change we also need to focus on the “why” - why…
The Balanced Scorecard at 25
It is 25 years since the article “The Balanced Scorecard - Measures that Drive Performance” first appeared in the pages of the Harvard Business Review. Few…
What next for the Balanced Scorecard?
This question was recently posed in a blog posting by James Creelman, and has been a common question since Balanced Scorecard’s inception. Read on…
Make ‘hindsight’ a thing of the past…
We would all like to know what will happen in the future: life would be easier if we could get a warning about problems before they happen. This is also true…
Fire-and-forget… doesn’t work for strategy implementation
Organisations invest a lot of time and energy in developing strategies which if implemented would doubtless benefit the organisation hugely. But in our…
Picking measures for strategy implementation - three simple rules…
Organisations are very good at measuring things: it is hardly surprising since we have had a lot of practice - the earliest records of formalised performance…
Getting the message across
Organisations are designed to be good at getting things done. Strategy implementation is mostly about ensuring that key strategic initiatives get done - so on…
How to make sure your strategy is on the road to somewhere
Strategy is about change. It describes the route an organisation needs to follow to end up in a better place. But often the nature of that ‘better place’ is…
Strategy Implementation now the dominant role for Balanced Scorecard reveals the 2GC survey!
Results from the 2GC 2014 Balanced Scorecard Usage Survey, conducted in alliance with Intrafocus, are now in!
How to Select Useful / Usable / Appropriate / Relevant KPIs
Organisations have no shortage of performance indicators, and that’s good - as it is through these measures that it is possible to keep track of what is going…
Using Accountability to Improve Strategy Implementation
You have designed a great strategy, developed a implementation plan and put in place measures to track your progress. So why are you still struggling to…
Survey Finds that Balanced Scorecards Drive Improved Employee Engagement with Corporate Objectives
Results from the 2GC Active Management 2013 Balanced Scorecard Survey, show that 94% of responding organisations said that they thought using Balanced…
Leading Edge Academia and Management Consultancy Links
2GC Founder and Managing Director Gavin Lawrie, recently presented two papers at the Performance Measurement and Management Control conference in Barcelona,…
