Balanced Scorecard

In the early 1990s, two business experts set out to design a new way to track corporate performance by looking not just at bottom lines such as profits and share prices, but at all the operations they felt were essential to achieving long-term success. Today, their invention is catching on…

The most popular analogy used to describe a data dashboard is a car’s dashboard, which gives instant access to critical information. An automobile dashboard allows the driver to view the various instruments to monitor the many functions of the car and engine. In a car, the instruments will instantly tell…

The Balanced Scorecard For a strategy-focused school district, a route for driving systemwide performance measurements, as Atlanta’s experience suggests by ROBERT S. KAPLAN AND DYLAN N. MIYAKE Robert Kaplan Ten years ago, the Atlanta Public Schools had low and declining student achievement, demoralized teachers, crumbling buildings, high turnover among superintendents (average tenure…