Balanced scorecard step-by-step - Paul R. Niven

In Balanced Scorecard Step–by–Step, Paul Niven shares his extensive experience in developing Balanced Scorecards for Fortune 1000, public sector, and not–for–profit organizations. The reader quickly learns that a Balanced Scorecard implementation is more than a "metrics" project, that it touches many critical organizational processes. Through detailed step–by–step discussions, Niven provides insight on and practical solutions for: developing performance objectives and measures that faithfully translate strategy, generating executive support, and assembling the right team. Readers also learn how to ensure the Balanced Scorecard becomes an integral component of their management systems by cascading it to all levels of the organization, aligning budgets and compensation with strategy, reporting results with software, and putting in place systems to ensure lasting success.

"Paul Niven, through his experience as project leader at the excellent and highly successful implementation at Nova Scotia Power, and subsequently as a Balanced Scorecard consultant, is one of the few who can talk and write knowledgeably about how to make the Scorecard happen in an organization. Balanced Scorecard Step–by–Step guides readers through the processes required for a successful Balanced Scorecard project. In addition, he shows how to become a strategy–focused organization by imbedding the Balanced Scorecard into critical organizational processes." ––From the Foreword by Robert S. Kaplan

"This is the Balanced Scorecard journey, told step–by–step by one who has traveled the BSC road many times. Paul Niven is not just a sideline cheerleader for the BSC; he is someone who rolls up his sleeves and has what it takes to fine–tune BSC performance promises. A must–read for anyone considering or already on the BSC journey." ––Catherine Stenzel, Editor, Journal of Cost Management