Balanced Scorecards within ActiveStrategy Enterprise Software

ActiveStrategy Enterprise® (ASE) scorecard software enables best practices deployments of Balanced Scorecards, dashboards, and other performance management frameworks.

Unlike tools such as spreadsheets, analytics software, and reporting packages, ASE was created explicitly to improve upon manual Balanced Scorecards and dashboards. It manages all of the critical "behind-the-scenes" work involved in creating, deploying, and using a scorecard framework, so your organization can spend time managing performance – not reporting it.

ASE scorecard software makes it simple for you to:

• Link and cascade scorecards, objectives, and metrics down and across as many layers of your organizational hierarchy as you need.
• Create simple – or quite complex – metrics that calculate and roll up automatically.
• Establish ownership for all system objects (such as scorecards, objectives, metrics, initiatives, etc.), helping to both clarify responsibility, and also ensure that sensitive data is only accessible to authorized users.
• View automatically-generated trend charts for any important metrics/KPIs alongside the related scorecard or metric.
• Attach initiatives and action items to objectives and measures, ensuring that improvement efforts are on track and are having intended impacts.
• Cascade scorecards and performance metrics all the way down to individual employees, aligning your entire workforce to your strategy and clarifying his or her role in its achievement.

ASE provides these productivity- and performance-enhancing benefits as well:

• Owners keep their own scorecards and metrics up-to-date, because ASE automatically sends users customized email alerts when any updates are due for items that they own or monitor. This means you no longer need to dedicate a resource to the non-value-added job of tracking down updates each month.
• Presentations for business performance reviews update themselves automatically. Any ASE user may easily create a range of sophisticated views, such as dashboards, stoplight charts, and briefing books, which are ideal for reviewing performance "live" in ASE. Once created, these will be automatically updated by ASE whenever new data or information is available. This reduces meeting prep time significantly and makes meetings more productive because deeper levels of information, such as root cause analyses, are just a click away.
• Consolidates disorganized or decentralized performance information into one reliable "single source of truth" for your entire organization.

ASE allows anyone from business executives to line-level employees to easily create, view, and manage their own automated scorecards, dashboards, and more. Creating cascaded, linked scorecards with perspectives, objectives, metrics, KPIs, trend charts, initiatives, and action items, can be done quickly by anyone – without needing help from an IT resource, analyst, or dedicated administrator.

As a flexible, web-based system (available as an on-demand SaaS application or installed within your network), ASE is used to automate and manage scorecards at organizations of all sizes and types. It scales easily to meet the needs and goals of any organization, division, or department.

Learn more about how ActiveStrategy Enterprise enables:

• Performance Management
• Performance Improvement
• Balanced Scorecards
• Strategy Execution
• Initiative/Task Management
• Process Management
• Business Reviews