Regional development has been playing an increasingly important role in the activities of higher education institutions (HEIs). The planning of regional strategies is notably different from that of other strategies, because there is no single institution or organisational unit who owns the strategy. This study presents techniques for networked and virtual organisations to gain commitment to a c...

This paper presents the possibility to utilize Balanced Scorecard knowledge in software process improvement. The research is a case study in a Finnish software company where the author has been working as a quality manager and a product manager. Main focus is to introduce aspects of making visible the business factors of software process improvement steps. The balanced scorecard approach is int...

The management of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software includes two main tasks: the implementation and the use of this comprehensive software. The Balanced Scorecard, a framework originally developed in order to structure the performance measurement of an enterprise or a department, can be used for the evaluation of these tasks. Adapting the approach of the Balanced Scorecard and adding ...

Several years ago we introduced the Balanced Scorecard (Kaplan and Norton 1992). We began with the premise that an exclusive reliance on financial measures in a management system is insufficient. Financial measures are lag indicators that report on the outcomes from past actions. Exclusive reliance on financial indicators could promote behavior that sacrifices long-term value creation for short...

“Baldrige? Six Sigma? Lean? Balanced Scorecard? We don’t have time for all of these initiatives! Let’s just pick one and go with it!” How many times have you heard (or perhaps even said) something similar to this? The statement suggests the initiatives are equivalent. They are not. As has been discussed earlier in this book, the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence represent a comprehen...

The balanced scorecard (BSC) is a strategic planning and management system that has wide applications in manufacturing and service industries. The main goals of BSC are to align business activities to the vision and strategy of the organization, improve internal and external communications, and monitor organization performance against strategic goals. In this study, performance measurement is d...

This paper presents the Learning Scorecard (LS), a platform that enables students to monitor their learning progress in a Higher Education course during the semester, generating the data that will also support the ongoing supervision of the class performance by the course coordinator. The LS uses gamification techniques to increase student engagement with the course. Business Intelligence best ...

A long-running issue in scorecard construction in retail banking is how to handle dramatically unbalanced class sizes. This is important because, in many applications, the class sizes are very different. We describe the impact ignoring such imbalance can have and review the various strategies which have been proposed for tackling it, embedding them in a common theoretical framework. We then des...

Die Balanced Scorecard ist ein Planungsund Steuerungsinstrument, das in den 1990er Jahren von Kaplan und Norton in den USA entwickelt wurde. Dieses Managementkonzept sollte dazu beitragen, die Unzulänglichkeiten klassischer – vornehmlich finanzbuchführungsbasierter – Kennzahlensysteme zu beseitigen, indem eine umsetzungsorientierte Steuerung bei Bezugnahme auf die formulierten Ziele des Unterne...