Performance Management & Balanced Scorecard White Papers

ActiveStrategy offers a wide array of informative white papers, implementation best practices, and case studies that offer deeper insights into successfully implementing Performance Management in your organization. We are experts at automating and deploying all areas of Performance Management, including Balanced Scorecards, strategic dashboards, Six Sigma, Malcolm Baldrige criteria, and more.

"Building a Balanced Scorecard Framework that Drives Strategy Execution & Business Results" is helpful for organizations considering whether or not to build a Balanced Scorecard framework. Key topics include:

• The Divide between Strategy Formulation & Strategy Execution
• Ways Balanced Scorecards Can Address the Divide
• Fundamentals for Building Successful Top-Level Scorecards
• The Importance of Cascading
• Five Tips for Scorecarding Success

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"Understanding Strategy Execution" provides a view into the larger performance management framework that Balanced Scorecards support. Key areas covered include:

• The High-Level View: How Prioritization, Improvement, and Control Drive Strategy
• The Ten Stages of an Organization’s Strategy Execution Evolution
• How Balanced Scorecards Fit Into the Broader Framework

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"Strategy Execution vs. Business Intelligence: 101 Things BI Doesn't Do to Support a Performance Culture" is intended to help those in IT and business positions to more clearly understand the distinctions between ActiveStrategy and BI suite vendors. It provides a list of 101 functional differences that illustrate what might, at first glance, appear to be subtle differences, but are in reality critical to answering the question, “Will it drive better business results quickly?”

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"Sustaining Performance in State & Local Government" is a white paper summary of an executive dialogue held in Philadelphia, which included a panel of four experts from different levels of government and more than 50 attendees representing numerous government organizations. In it, we tackle how governments can utilize Performance Management principles to do more with less, and how to earn political buy-in for Performance Management projects.

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"When Performance Management Worlds Collide, Business Will Benefit" is provided by the firm AMR Research and asks the question, how can companies drive world-class performance? This white paper posits that merging financial, operational, and personal metrics into one performance management system is the way for organizations to achieve Breakthrough Improvement. Also included is a brief case study of one of ActiveStrategy's hospital clients.

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