The Balanced Scorecard is a strategy and measurement framework, created by Kaplan and Norton, that balances financial metrics with three non-financial perspectives: customer, internal process, and learning and growth. The idea is that financial results alone are lagging, so a healthy organization tracks the drivers behind them too, often visualized in a strategy map.
The four perspectives are meant to form a causal chain: learning and growth (skills, culture, tools) improve internal processes, which improve customer outcomes, which produce financial results. Each perspective carries a few objectives, measures, targets, and initiatives.
The Balanced Scorecard is strong on completeness and weak on speed. It suits organizations that want a comprehensive, board-level view of strategy health, and it is often compared with OKRs, which trade breadth for a faster, more focused cycle.
Financial: grow operating margin to 18%. Customer: lift NPS to 50. Process: reduce defect rate by half. Learning: certify 80% of engineers on the new platform.
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