The recent surge in emphasizing strategic planning and performance management in companies, regardless of their geographical location, turnover or maturity has led to an increase in the use of ‘strategy jargons’ across almost all media and communication channels. One of the most common terms that are used is Balanced Scorecard (BSC).
One of the leading international management thinkers, Professor Robert Kaplan, from Harvard Business School, made a visit in Australia in mid September 2010 to talk about the new developments in the field of strategic performance management and Balanced Scorecard.
For the report Performance Management in 2013, The KPI Institute conducted 20 semi-structured interviews with practitioners, academics and consultants from 18 countries, who offered a detailed image on the state of Performance Management as a discipline.
One of the main editorial rules followed in the development of the content is that a discipline can only evolve through the combined efforts of practitioners, academics and consultants. Gary Cokins, Founder and CEO, at Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC, USAwas one of the consultants that The KPI Institute interviewed.
Competition, along with the need of being the best at something are key concepts that drive companies forward. The same principle applies when it comes to educational institutions. In this market, providing quality service is a key factor in establishing a hierarchy.
In the world of Performance Management, these two terms are often confused and sometimes used interchangeably. Although they both aggregate data across business units and give the reader the opportunity to monitor performance, there are important distinctions to be noted between Scorecards and Dashboards.