The Balanced Scorecard: Achieving Performance Excellence

Course Info

Date: Dec-02-2024

Length: 1 Week

City: London

Fees: 4,310

Type: In Classroom

Available Dates

  • Dec-02-2024

    London

Dates in Other Venues

  • Dec-02-2024

    Amsterdam

  • Dec-09-2024

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Dec-09-2024

    Istanbul

  • Dec-16-2024

    Paris

  • Dec-16-2024

    Singapore

  • Dec-23-2024

    Barcelona

  • Dec-23-2024

    Amsterdam

  • Dec-30-2024

    Dubai

Course Details

Course Outline

5 days course

 

Benefits of strategic management and planning
 
  • The strategy focused organization
  • Why implement the balanced scorecard
  • Strategic planning needs and benefits
  • A strategic planning model
  • The importance of the balanced scorecard
  • Balanced scorecard steps and timeline

 

'SWOT' analysis, vision and mission statements

 

  • The purpose of a 'SWOT' analysis
  • 'SWOT' in brief
  • Linking the results of the 'SWOT' findings to future objectives and initiatives
  • Definition of a vision statement
  • Importance of a structured mission statement

 

Developing performance measures and control systems
 
  • Goals, objectives, and targets
  • 'SMART' objectives
  • Key performance indicators and Units of Measures (UOMs)
  • Aligning KPIs to company strategy
  • Obstacles to measurement
  • Developing strategies and initiatives that will assist in achieving the targets
  • Developing strategies

 

Benchmarking as a tool to set targets
 
  • Objectives and basics of benchmarking
  • The who, what and why of benchmarking
  • Different methods of benchmarking
  • Who to benchmark against
  • The benchmarking process

 

The balanced scorecard as a strategic management system
 
  • Strategic planning and strategy execution
  • Reasons behind failures of well-formulated strategies
  • Translating the vision into everyday actions
  • Importance and history of the balanced scorecard
  • The premise behind the balanced scorecard
  • Principles of the strategy focused organization
  • Measuring business strategy from the financial, customer, internal, business or process and learning and growth perspectives
  • Strategic alignment and goal setting
  • Linking the balanced scorecard's KPIs to strategy
  • Strategy map: specifying relationships and making them testable
  • The importance of initiatives
  • Evaluating initiatives
  • Managing initiatives
  • Soft and hard KPIs
  • Leading and lagging KPIs
  • Reporting and evaluating results
  • Cascading the balanced scorecard
  • Implementing a balanced scorecard program

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