Balanced Scorecard & Strategy Maps
A practical capability-building programme focused on balanced scorecard & strategy maps, designed for professionals and organisations seeking stronger performance and applied results.
- Type
- Professional
- Level
- Advanced
- Duration
- 5 days
- Delivery
- In person, Live online, In-house
- Languages
- English, Arabic
Balanced Scorecard & Strategy Maps provides a structured approach for translating strategy into a coherent system of objectives, measures and initiatives. The programme helps participants move beyond isolated performance indicators by showing how financial, customer, internal-process and organisational-capability perspectives can be connected to strategic outcomes.
Participants learn to construct strategy maps, define meaningful strategic objectives, select balanced performance measures and establish governance for performance review. The emphasis is on using the Balanced Scorecard as a strategy-management system rather than simply as a reporting dashboard.
Objectives
Understand the strategic logic and architecture of the Balanced Scorecard.
Translate organisational strategy into linked strategic objectives.
Develop strategy maps that communicate cause-and-effect relationships.
Select appropriate performance measures, targets and initiatives.
Use scorecards to support strategic review, accountability and decision-making.
Learning outcomes
Develop strategic objectives across the main Balanced Scorecard perspectives.
Construct a coherent strategy map linking organisational priorities.
Distinguish strategic measures from operational indicators.
Define suitable targets and strategic initiatives.
Design an effective governance and review process for the Balanced Scorecard.
Who it is for
Strategy and performance-management professionals.
Executives, directors and department heads.
Business planning and organisational excellence professionals.
KPI and performance-measurement specialists.
Public-sector professionals responsible for strategic performance frameworks.
Programme modules
1. Balanced Scorecard Foundations
Understanding the Balanced Scorecard as a strategic management framework.
Purpose and evolution of the Balanced Scorecard
Strategy execution challenges
The four-perspective model
Strategic versus operational performance
Common implementation mistakes
2. Strategic Objectives and Perspectives
Translating strategy into a balanced set of strategic objectives.
Defining strategic objectives
Financial and stakeholder outcomes
Customer and beneficiary perspectives
Internal-process priorities
Learning, people and organisational capability
3. Building Strategy Maps
Visualising strategic logic through linked objectives and cause-and-effect relationships.
Purpose of strategy maps
Cause-and-effect logic
Linking objectives across perspectives
Testing strategic coherence
Communicating strategy visually
4. Measures, Targets and Initiatives
Selecting indicators and actions that provide meaningful evidence of strategic progress.
Selecting strategic KPIs
Leading and lagging indicators
Defining baselines and targets
Strategic initiatives
Linking measures to accountability
5. Scorecard Governance and Strategic Review
Embedding the Balanced Scorecard into management and decision-making routines.
Scorecard ownership and governance
Strategic performance reporting
Review meeting design
Interpreting performance gaps
Updating maps, measures and initiatives
Methodology
The programme combines explanation of Balanced Scorecard principles with hands-on development of strategic objectives, strategy maps and performance measures. Participants work through practical examples and progressively build components of a scorecard.
Facilitated review is used to test whether objectives, measures and initiatives genuinely reflect organisational strategy rather than producing a collection of disconnected indicators.
Assessment
Assessment is based on practical scorecard-development exercises and a final integrated strategy-map task. Participants are expected to demonstrate strategic alignment, logical cause-and-effect relationships and appropriate selection of measures and targets.
Certificate
Certificate of Completion
For your organisation
This programme can be delivered for a single organisation, team or institution, and adapted to your context, participants and objectives.
Organisational delivery is scoped and priced individually, and is not booked from this page.
Upcoming sessions
No dates are scheduled at present.
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