Background In consumer lending, portfolio managers typically have access to a scorecard used to forecast default probability for each applicant. Scorecards are built using historical data on loan accounts and their respective performance data. The inputs into the scorecard include financial, demographic and other personal information about each applicant. The output of the scorecard is a real-v...

Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard is a management tool that supports the successful implementation of corporate strategies. It has been discussed and considered widely both in practice and research. By linking operational and non-financial corporate activities with causal chains to the firm’s long-term strategy the Balanced Scorecard supports the alignment and management of all corporate a...

The performance improvement process is a critical component of the strategic planning process. Call it by any name, the process is very vital, and it has always been practised by many companies worldwide for a long time. This process has been recently dubbed as the balanced scorecard. The balanced scorecard is a system of combining financial and non-financial measures of performance in one sing...

The balanced scorecard has been referred to as the management innovation of the century, and extensive articles have been written using case studies of organizations that use this performance measurement system. This article addresses the key issues of design and implementation with a step-by-step guide to how to design a balanced scorecard and lessons to avoid implementation problems in govern...

SUMMARY The scorecard summarises key indicators of the burden of osteoporosis and its management in each of the member states of the European Union. The resulting scorecard elements were then assembled on a single sheet to provide a unique overview of osteoporosis in Europe. INTRODUCTION The scorecard for osteoporosis in Europe (SCOPE) is an independent project that seeks to raise awareness o...

BACKGROUND OBJECTIVE To evaluate the usefulness of a clinical scorecard in managing sore throat in general practice. DESIGN Validation study of scorecard for sore throat with a throat swab culture used as the 'gold standard'. SETTING A solo family practice in rural New South Wales, AustraliaParticipants: Patients attending with sore throat. METHODS Patients from the age of 5 years and ...

Comparing Publicly Reported Surgical Outcomes WithQualityMeasures From a Statewide Improvement Collaborative The recent release of a Surgeon Scorecard has accelerated debatearoundthemeritsofpublicly reportingsurgicaloutcomes.1 BasedonMedicare claims from2009 through2013, this scorecard provides the public with surgeon-specific complication rates for8electiveproceduresperformedbynearly 17000surg...

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...

Commentators suggest that between 30 and 60% of large US firms have adopted the Balanced Scorecard, first described by Bob Kaplan and David Norton in their seminal Harvard Business Review paper of 1992 (Kaplan and Norton, 1992; Neely and Marr, 2003). Empirical evidence that explores the performance impact of the balanced scorecard, however, is extremely rare and much that is available is anecdo...