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Company Balanced Scorecard
The Balanced Scorecard: Turning Strategy into Measurable Action
Waleed Khaled
11/4/20251 min read
Most companies have a strategy, but few can show how daily work connects to it.
The balanced scorecard closes that gap by turning strategy into a small set of clear, measurable goals.
Common mistakes
The most common one is measuring too much.
A scorecard with forty indicators is a report, not a management tool. Others include copying another company’s measures, ignoring the learning and growth perspective, and building the scorecard once and never reviewing it.
The four perspectives
The balanced scorecard, introduced by Robert Kaplan and David Norton in the early 1990s, looks at performance from four angles:
Financial: Are we delivering the results the business needs?
Customer: Are customers getting the value they expect from us?
Internal processes: Which processes must we do exceptionally well to deliver that value?
Learning and growth: Do our people, skills, systems, and culture support what we are trying to achieve?
The four are linked.
Capable people improve processes, better processes serve customers, and satisfied customers drive financial results.
Why financial numbers are not enough
Financial results tell you what already happened.
They don’t tell you whether customers are satisfied, whether processes are working, or whether your people are ready for what comes next.
By the time a problem shows up in revenue, it is usually too late to fix it easily.
From strategy to scorecard
Start with a clear strategy. If it isn’t clear, no scorecard can fix that.
Set two or three objectives for each perspective.
Choose a measure and a target for each objective.
Assign an owner to each measure.
Review progress in a regular meeting and act on what the numbers show.
Cascade it so departments and teams build scorecards that support the company one.
Key takeaway
A good scorecard is short, linked to strategy, and reviewed often.
It helps everyone in the company see how their work contributes to the results that matter.