PROBLEM After the Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004, the International Organization for Migration constructed temporary health clinics to provide medical services to survivors living in temporary accommodation centres throughout Aceh, Indonesia. Limited resources, inadequate supervision, staff turnover and lack of a health information system made it challenging to provide quality primary he...

The socio-technical theory is concerned with human well-being; it is democratic, humanistic and provides both freedom and knowledge to those who are part of it. Balanced scorecard is an approach that assesses whether the organization is meeting its objectives in terms of vision and strategy. It measures four perspectives: financial, customer, internal business processes and innovation & learnin...

How well does Prizma’s poverty scorecard identify poor clients? The scorecard applies 0/1 weights to seven simple and inexpensive-to-collect indicators to give a score from 0 (most likely poor) to 9 (least likely poor). The scorecard has good power, not only for ranking clients by relative poverty but also for identifying the likelihood that a client is poor by an absolute standard. While pover...

The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is a very powerful and successful strategic performance management tool. This management white paper describes a BSC in simple terms. The paper outlines the four perspectives of a Balanced Scorecard and explains the importance of Strategy Maps. It shows how many organisations use the Balanced Scorecard today and describes the key benefits of a scorecard implementati...

Universities have a magnificent role in the sustainable development of their country and international scientific production of their country. Purpose of this paper is expansion of using balance scorecard in universities In order to improve performance of universities in learning and educating. The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is an extensively adopted performance management framework in a lot of o...

This article presents the “Stra.Tech.Man approach” (strategy-technology-management synthesis) as basis for creating a Scorecard,” which can be used strategic audit of every socio-economic organization. After reviewing literature on control and audit, study proceeds with critical appraisal Kaplan Norton’s balanced scorecard model theoretical foundations Stra.Tech.Man approach. It composes first ...

Credit scoring is one of the most successful applications in banking and finance. However, most studies do not explain the whole process of scorecard development, probably due to the difficulty in obtaining credit scoring data. This study addresses some of the gaps that are present in the existing literature in that it explains in detail the processes, as performed in practice, of scorecard dev...

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...