books about: scorecard     books:       Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes29 reviews Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton Harvard Business School Press, 2004 A well-written source on mapping strategy This is a comprehensive book on the concept of strategy mapping. It deals with strategy maps as a tool for communicating an organization's vision enterprise-wide in order to enable its better implementation. The book covers the subject in a very detailed but well-organized manner. Theoretical and practical coverage is well balanced. I strongly recommend it as a clearly authoritative source on ...             The HR Scorecard: Linking People, Strategy, and Performance23 reviews Brian E. Becker, Mark A. Huselid, ... Harvard Business School Press, 2001 How to determine the ROI of your organization's human capital I recently re-read this book and have even higher regard for it now than I did I when I first read it soon after it was published in 2001. Becker and Huselid later co-authored The Workforce Scorecard with Richard W. Beatty. With rigor and eloquence, they examine three separate but related challenges: Perspective (with an emphasis on differentiation), Metrics (and their relationship to strategy ...             Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business18 reviews Wayne W. Eckerson Wiley, 2005 Quo vadis? For purposes of discussion, pretend that your organization is a vehicle within which you and your associates travel en route to a series of destinations; for example, various stages of progressively improved operational efficiency and progressively increased profitability. One key question arises: How well is your vehicle performing? The three "dashboards" (i.e. operational, tactical, and ...             Six Disciplines® Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem That Makes Solving All Other Problems ...10 reviews Gary Harpst Six Disciplines Publishing, 2008 Planning and Execution While the ultimate message put forth in this book is about executing your plans and how to go about that, it is very much based on what needs to be done first - and that is Planning, Goal-Setting. Without this foundation in place first, any actions in business will be haphazard, directionless and misguided. Six Principles Execution Revolution is an excellent business source that offers some ...             Microsoft ® Office 2007 Business Intelligence8 reviews Doug Harts McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2007 Good Concise Review This book provided a great, easy to understand review of the features of Office 2007. Touched upon pivot tables, performance point, dashboards and scorecards. Plenty of examples were provided. This will definitely help me with implementing executive dashboards at my company.             Balanced Scorecard: Step-by-Step for Government and Nonprofit Agencies8 reviews Paul R. Niven Wiley, 2008 How to tweak the standard model Balanced Scorecard for nonprofit and government organizations Managers face competing interests in running a company. Their compensation programs are set to try and focus their performance, but if it is only set on revenue the company might end up losing money while paying the top executives big performance bonuses. If it is on net income, they can manipulate the accounting by cutting the heart out of future business, again, damaging the company while ...             Balanced Scorecard Step-by-Step: Maximizing Performance and Maintaining Results23 reviews Paul R. Niven Wiley, 2006 High Marks for a Balance Scorecard Truely a good strategic book for any organization. This book covers graduate theory and explains well in details; taking you step by step in the Scorecard practices.             The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment23 reviews Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton Harvard Business School Press, 2000 Highly Recommended! The fact that executives keep trying new strategic initiatives despite their abysmal rate of failure is, like second marriages, a triumph of hope over experience. Or, it may indicate just how much pressure top managers face to improve their profits. By one estimate, nine out of ten companies fail to execute their strategic visions. Yet, CEOs - who witness a world in constant flux - continue to ...             The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action53 reviews Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton Harvard Business School Press, 1996 Effective Strategic Management Tool The book is a classic that has revolutionalised the way executives view their organizations, be it a for profit or not-for-profit entity. The Balanced Scorecard, an approach to strategic management that was developed by Robert S Kaplan and David P Norton, is a concept for measuring a company's activities in terms of its vision and strategies, to provide managers with a comprehensive view of the ...             Balanced Scorecard Strategy For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))3 reviews Charles Hannabarger, Frederick Buchman, ... For Dummies, 2007 Hitting the Jackpot How can you improve on something that you can't measure? This book provides all the simple answers needed for those of us who place a value on measuring and tracking business performance. It's been a long wait to find an author who can take the mystery out of "Balanced Scorecards". Thank You!             DRIVEN: Business Strategy, Human Actions, and the Creation of Wealth70 reviews Joel Litman, Mark L. Frigo Strategy & Execution, LLC, 2008 Read this book. In Driven, Dr. Frigo and Mr. Litman provide the background to "Return Driven Strategy", which is a strategic framework that underlies the importance of integrating a business strategy, the execution of that strategy, and ultimately how those pieces relate to a company's valuation. Through their detailed research of high performing companies, Frigo and Litman provide example after example of how ...             Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution (Microsoft Executive Leadership ...8 reviews Bruno Aziza, Joey Fitts Wiley, 2008 An essential guide to business transformation for performance improvement "Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution" by Bruno Aziza and Joey Fitts represents much more than a demystification of performance management terminology. The book is neither a re-telling of the benefits of performance management, nor a veiled attempt to shape a business case for PerformancePoint. Instead, the authors introduce novel ideas backed by case study ...             The Integrated Enterprise Excellence System: An Enhanced, Unified Approach to Balanced Scorecards, Strategic ...13 reviews Forrest W. Breyfogle III Bridgeway Books, 2008 A powerful statement of today's Business NEEDS! Forrest has written yet another thought provoking book. With his original book Implementing Six Sigma he set the stage at which the Six Sigma world would baseline "How it is done". Now he has set off with a series of new books which will open the door to looking at our businesses differently - in a new light. With the book `Integrated Enterprise Excellence' Forrest uncovers some of ...             Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies7 reviews Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton Harvard Business School Press, 2006 Their most important book thus far.... After their article "The Balanced Scorecard - Measures That Drive Performance" appeared in Harvard Business Review" (January-February, 1992), Kaplan and Norton co-authored four books in which they expand and fine-tune several of their core concepts about the Balanced Scorecard. What we have in this volume is a brilliant analysis of how to use the Balanced Scorecard to create corporate synergies. ...             The Workforce Scorecard: Managing Human Capital To Execute Strategy8 reviews Mark A. Huselid, Brian E. Becker, ... Harvard Business School Press, 2005 How to increase the ROI of human "capital" It is more important now than ever before to measure human performance accurately and consistently, especially given the rapidly increasing use of outsourcing which requires effective supervision of those to whom important tasks are entrusted. Although this book was written primarily for HR executives, I think it can also be of substantial interest and value to other senior-level executives as ...             A Complete and Balanced Service Scorecard: Creating Value Through Sustained Performance Improvement1 review Rajesh K. Tyagi, Praveen Gupta FT Press, 2008 A great read for those involved in enhancing business performance The Service Scorecard comprehensively explores the service environment and how performance measurement framework needs to be different given the challenges in measuring services. Most literature on performance measurement has focused on products which are tangible (and can more easily be subjected to quality testing), while service is largely an intangible. The book does an excellent job at ...             : Business Process Management and the Balanced Scorecard : Focusing Processes on Strategic Drivers6 reviews Ralph F. Smith Wiley, 2006 Specifics and practicalities I had the opportunity to read Ralph's book while he was delivering onsite Balanced Scorecard facilitation for my current employer. With more than a decade of experience in process improvement, and having read several books on linking process to strategy, I can say that Ralph has done a great job of distilling his consultative approach to the page, providing both the concepts behind his methods ...             Integrated Enterprise Excellence, Vol. I The Basics: Golfing Buddies Go Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the ...8 reviews Forrest W. Breyfogle III Bridgeway Books, 2008 A great story about a new may to manage a business This is an excellent book which is very easy book to read. It is about some golfing friends who talk about real life issues that face many businesses today. The book reviews how the IEE process that Forrest developed can be used to make big improvements in the way a business is managed. This is a must read for everyone!             The Rational Guide To Monitoring and Analyzing with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 (Rational ...5 reviews Nick Barclay, Adrian Downes Rational Pr, 2007 Another winner from Barclay and Downes When I first started trying to work with Business Scorecard Manager (BSM) I found a terrific little book (Rational Guide) by Nick Barclay and Adrian Downes which saved me a ton of time. Happily the PerformancePoint Monitoring product is intrinsically better than BSM and hence a little easier to understand on its own terms, but none the less this new Rational Guide is a very valuable resource ...             Beyond the Balanced Scorecard: Improving Business Intelligence with Analytics2 reviews Mark Graham Brown Productivity Press, 2007 Another Glowing Success One of the key points I took away from Mark's new book is that analytics can form the basis of a dynamic approach to performance management. Dynamic in the sense that analytics can be adjusted to be more responsive to changing directions in the market, the economy, employee profile or whatever is important to the organization. Because an analytic is a composite or aggregate of sub-metrics, each ...              search for books companies, converting, corporate, dashboards, disciplines, enterprise, environment, excellence, government, improvement, intangible, integrated, intelligence, intelligent, leadership, maintaining, management, maximizing, measuring, monitoring, organization, performance, performancepoint, revolution, scorecards, step-by-step, strategy-focused, synergies, translating, workforce books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen DVD: Sensory Processing Disorder: Simulations and Solutions for Parents, ... home  impressum - about us