Small-scale hydropower plants (SHP) have been losing competitiveness compared to other renewable sources in the global electricity matrix due technical, environmental, regulatory, and economic issues. In this context, contribute development strengthening of SHP’s integration into country’s matrix, study proposes Balanced Scorecard (BSC) as a strategic evaluation tool for SHP projects from prosp...

The purpose of this paper is to systematically analyze the knowledge management research within small and medium-sized companies. The study includes a systematic review of 30 peer reviewed papers on knowledge management advantages for SMEs. Balanced scorecard perspectives cover all aspects of the organization, and, consequently, the balanced scorecard approach has been applied to classify the K...

HIGHLIGHTS The Economist Intelligence Unit has created a unique scorecard, the Latin America Cancer Control Scorecard (LACCS), which covers policies and programmes designed to reduce inequality in cancer-care access in 12 Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay (the study countries). To do so, it asse...

The balanced scorecard (BSC) initially developed by Kaplan and Norton, is a performance management system that enables businesses to drive strategies based on measurement and follow-up. In recent years, the BSC has been applied to information technology (IT). The IT BSC is becoming a popular tool with its concepts widely dispersed by international consultant groups such as GartnerGroup, Renaiss...

Mobile environment has revolutionized the health field. This fact and the rise of mobile technology have led to improve processes of care. In this paper, we present a practical application of BSC (balance scorecard) for Management of clinical incidents in ICT services through mobile devices in health organization. The objective of building of system is to integrate with main system of organizat...

Teratoma formation is the gold standard assay for testing the capacity of human pluripotent stem cells to differentiate into all embryonic germ layers. Although widely used, little effort has been made to transform this qualitative assay into a quantitative one. Using gene expression data from a wide variety of cells, we created a scorecard representing tissues from all germ layers and extraemb...

Green performance measure is vital for enterprises in making continuous improvements to maintain sustainable competitive advantages. Evaluation of green performance, however, is a challenging task due to the dependence complexity of the aspects, criteria, and the linguistic vagueness of some qualitative information and quantitative data together. To deal with this issue, this study proposes a n...

This paper touches the current state of the art for selection algorithms of projects in a project portfolio and extends the existing approaches by prioritizing projects according to their strategic contribution based on a Balanced Scorecard (BSC).

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...