Chadwick‚ Inc.: The Balanced Scorecard (Abridged)‚ Harvard Business School Case (HBS Case 9-104-073). Substantive Issues Raised Division managers at Chadwick had complained to the Controller about the continual pressure to meet short-term financial objectives. As a producer of consumer products and pharmaceuticals‚ divisions at Chadwick engaged in long-term projects with uncertain payoffs. Managers did not believe that using a single target‚ return on capital employed‚ linked current actions
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What do companies like Rockwater‚ Apple Computer‚ and Advanced Micro Devices have in commonl They’re using the scorecard to measure performance and set strategy. Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton Today’s managers recognize the impact that measures have on performance. But they rarely think of measurement as an essential part of their strategy. For example‚ executives may introduce new strategies and innovative operating processes intended to achieve hreakthrough
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responses to Questions 1-7. 6. Read "The U.S. Postal Service" (pg. 70-71) and submit written responses to Questions 1-7. Pg. 14 1) The loss of manufacturing jobs in the United States is extremely important. As this article states‚ when manufacturing jobs are lost so are service jobs. For every manufacturing job lost to things like outsourcing‚ 3 service jobs are lost. Not only are the people doing the manufacturing losing jobs‚ but also the people that service the factory such as the maintenance crews
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KEY BENEFITS OF BALANCED SCORECARD Better Strategic Planning The Balanced Scorecard provides a powerful framework for building and communicating strategy. The business model is visualized in Strategy Maps which forces managers to think about cause-and-effect relationships. The process of creating a Strategy Map ensures consensus is reached over a set of interrelated strategic objectives. This means that both performance outcomes as well as key enablers of future performance (such as the intangibles)
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2.1 Introduction In this chapter‚ the first part will brief about the Balanced Scorecard and about the review of the BSC four perspectives and also the cause-effect relationship. Next‚ I will discuss about the issues implanting BSC. The section of implementing challenges will be discussed also. 2.2 Balanced Scorecard. The Balanced Scorecard (BSC)‚ presented by Kaplan and Norton (1992) stated out it was applied to access the organization’s performances. This model had functioned well as both financial
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THE BALANCED SCORECARD IN AN INDONESIAN PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY A CASE STUDY IN PT. DEXA MEDICA 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Background of the Study In modern competitive global economy‚ it is more important than ever to understand the process of value creation in the organization. The need to manage with a high level of customer focus‚ a clearer understanding of core business processes‚ the necessity of motivation and commitment of employees‚ the need for change on a continuous basis‚ and effective
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The Department of Posts‚ trading as India Post‚ is a government-operated postal system in India; it is generally referred to within India as "the post office". As of 31 March 2011‚ the Indian Postal Service had 1‚54‚866 post offices‚ of which 1‚39‚040 (89.78 percent) were in rural areas and 15‚826 (10.22 percent) in urban areas. It had 25‚464 departmental POs and 1‚29‚402 ED BPOs. At the time of independence‚ there were 23‚344 post offices‚ primarily in urban areas. The network has registered a
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Balanced Scorecard was developed in the early 1990s by two guys at the Harvard Business School: Robert Kaplan and David Norton. The key problem that Kaplan and Norton identified in the business of the day was that many companies tended to manage their businesses based solely on financial measures. While that may have worked well in the past‚ the pace of business in today’s world requires more comprehensive measures. Though financial measures are necessary‚ they can only report what has happened in
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customers’ service expectation has become much higher and highly related to the profitability of the bank in the 1990s’. Customers are requesting comprehensive selection of banking products with thorough customer service. Under the trend‚ Citibank added the customer satisfaction as non-financial indicator in the new measurement‚ performance scorecard‚ to evaluate the performance of branches. The strength of new measurement would motivate the bank to maintain and reach higher quality services‚ bringing
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Balanced Scorecard Analysis of Hyundai and Honda Two of the major players in the global automobile industry are Honda and Hyundai (also known as Hyundai Motor Group). These business organizations have global scope of operations‚ and they have maintained considerable growth and expansion in recent years despite the slowdown of the Western economies. The positions of Honda and Hyundai emphasized the capabilities of these firms to maintain a positive and profitable strategic outlook‚ especially in
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