The balanced scorecard

For transforming your business performance

• CEOs, MDs, FDs and all other board/business unit members concerned with defining, articulating, communicating, and delivering an organisation's transformational strategy to meet the critical business challenges ahead.
• management accountants, IT directors and others responsible for the preparation, analysis, interpretation and presentation of financial and non-financial information to help assure the delivery of the strategy.

'Good – demystified this topic for me. The explanation of the link from strategy to individuals’ objectives was very interesting.'
Debra McDermid, Financial Controller, Capita Business Services Ltd

'Excellent introduction to the balanced scorecard, well delivered and interesting'
Brian McGillion, Senior Lecturer, Corporate Strategy, Dublin Institute of Technology

'It will assist with further developments of the balanced scorecard'
Rodney Williams, Corporate Plans, Defence Academy of the UK, Ministry of Defence

• Clarity on why and how the balanced scorecard emerged, and what it is really trying to achieve.
• Understand and explore the critical and fundamental role of strategy maps and how to create them.
• Acquire a powerful structure for inspiring high performance through building strategy focused performance management information that can be cascaded throughout the organisation.
• Understand how vision, strategy, objectives, measures, targets, initiatives, key performance indicators (KPIs) and their ownership can be brought together into one comprehensive and extremely powerful performance management framework to transform business performance.
• Examine the broader organisational issues associated with successful balanced scorecard implementation.
• Evaluate the practical application of the balanced scorecard to your own organisation and discover how to become really focused on what to do next.

Gary Ashworth, director, A1 Aspirations Ltd, specialises in advanced performance management. He has extensive implementation experience in a wide range of organisations, has spoken internationally and been published widely on the subject through Pearson/Financial Times Publications and Financial Management.

He led the performance management practices in two of the major consulting firms over a number of years, and has since set up several successful commercial ventures.

• Background, role, benefits and usage patterns of the balanced scorecard.
• Structure of the scorecard, the famous four perspectives and the critical role of strategy mapping.
• Detailed business case studies, including organisational cascades; showing how the use of scorecard principles can transform business performance and execute strategy effectively.
• Practical syndicate working to reinforce the key learning points.
• Benefits of the successful adoption of a scorecard and key implementation considerations to explore.
• The importance and use of personal action planning check-lists.

The course starts with registration and coffee at 9.00 am and ends at 5.00 pm.

6 CPD hours (where applicable)

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