Typical Strategy Map - Click image to enlarge.

Fortune magazine famously reported on the US Top 500 companies and revealed that an astonishing 80% of them failed to execute the strategy their managers had planned and their Boards had approved.

The reason for their failure to execute (which often cost the CEO and much of the upper echelons their jobs) was attributed to the lack of a formal framework for execution within the organisation. They might have had a good plan, but with no means of ensuring it was being properly implemented, their strategy never happened.

Balanced Scorecard came out of pioneering work by Kaplan & Norton at Harvard Business School in the early 1990's. It is without doubt one of the most powerful tools in the manager's toolbox, for articulating, communicating, implementing and executing strategy throughout an organisation. And it can be used by any kind of organisation. It's world's best practice methodology for making strategy happen.

The picture shows a typical strategy map created by ASVP Group using methodology developed over more than fifteen years of strategic planning. Creating a picture of your strategy enables you to see clear cause and effect relationships between objectives. It also makes the job of communicating strategy to all team-members much, much easier. A picture is worth a thousand words. How true!

A small sample of some of the many organisations using Balanced Scorecard includes:

Becton Dickinson ANZ (Click link for more info)	Daimler Chrysler*	Scania*
BMW Financial Services*	Mailguard	UK Ministry of Defence*
Canon USA*	National Commercial Bank, KSA	US Army*
City of Brisbane*	Royal Norwegian Air Force*	Western Water*
Cognos*	Saatchi & Saatchi *	Your organisation would benefit too!
* = Members of the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative Hall of Fame

If you are not already using Balanced Scorecard, you will be amazed at the extra clarity, focus, speed, agility and alignment it can bring to your organisation.

If you are already using Balanced Scorecard, but have not yet automated it within your organisation, you will already understand the alignment, clarity and focus it provides, but you may not yet have begun to experience the speed, precision and agility which comes from an automated implementation.

Contact ASVP Group for an initial discussion about your Balanced Scorecard requirements.

Our whole focus is on delivering speed, agility, focus and clarity, to far-sighted organisations like yours.