Change Starts Here

JULY 9, 2013

For Mount Franklin Foods, a candy and snack manufacturer headquartered in El Paso, Texas, the years leading up to 2011 were tumultuous. When CEO Gary Ricco joined the company in May of 2011, the company had struggled for years to turn a profit. They also created a scorecard to measure their performance against each objective.

Balanced Scorecard 95

Balanced Scorecard Workshop Supply Chain Objective 95

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

This framework shares some elements with the balanced scorecard concept that was introduced in a seminal 1992 Harvard Business Review article, The Balanced Scorecard: Measures That Drive Performance , by Robert Kaplan and David Norton. Copyright (c) 2011. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why technology should support your organization’s strategy…not the other way around This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

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Review Technology Strategy Books 80

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

My gender consultancy firm, 20-First, has just published its annual Gender Balance Scorecard ( pdf ) of the top 300 companies in the world across the US, Europe and Asia. As usual, we try to broaden the focus from the current buzz around corporate boards to the more relevant metric of the gender balance of executive committees.

Execution 12

Execution Committee Balanced Scorecard Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The results for 2011 are published today — 14 November. An idea can change an entire industry and ideas, from kaizen to the balanced scorecard , continually transform the way we work and lead our businesses. Who is the most influential living management thinker? It's a fair question. Second, management matters.

Blue Ocean Strategy 15

Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

He arrived as President at Quaker Foods North America in 2011 to find a strong, trusted brand with nutritional oatmeal products, but he knew there was an opportunity to build upon the legacy of this iconic brand. They engage, tell the big story of why you do what you do, listen, and model desirable behaviors.

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Innovation Globalization Micromanagement 8