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The Balanced Scorecard

Introduces a performance system linking strategy to financial, customer, process and learning perspectives.

Key takeaways

  1. Financial measures are lagging indicators
  2. Strategy requires connected measures
  3. Capabilities drive future outcomes

How to apply it in your business

  1. Build a one-page strategy map
  2. Choose one leading and one lagging metric per perspective
  3. Review trade-offs each month

About the authors

Kaplan and Norton are management scholars who developed the balanced scorecard framework.

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