Monitoring the strategy of an organization is often a necessity so that we do not loss track of the unfolding events. In this regard, BSC with a set of suitable indicators, in the form of KPIs comes across as a potential concept that can bring in rich dividends. Some of the directions which can be used to benefit from this concept are Financial Perspective, Customer Perspective, Internal Processes Perspective and Education and Growth.Financial Perspective can be obtained from indicators like return on Assets, Return on Equity, Return on Management and Average time for Decision Making. This is to prevent from getting distracted by non-financial measures.Customer Perspective can be had from KPIs such as Customer gain ratio, Customer Satisfaction ration, Brand Index and Average Customer base. This goes into making the brand a known name and increasing the customer base.Internal Processes Perspective can be known from new products Introduction, Rework Time, Cost Incurred as Administrative Error and Rate of productivity. All this converges to align internal processes as per the needs and requirements.Education and Growth can be measured and maintained with KPIs like Satisfaction Index of employees, Number of Assignments on Cross-functional Basis, training sessions regarding R&D and Training Hours.
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Business strategy is used to display the long term reason for the existence of business. All the further steps and procedures are formulated in accordance with this strategy. The statement can be used to define the future course of action in several directions such as 'which markets the business plans to tap', 'what resources are to be used for this purpose', 'which factors, internal and external have an impact on the performance' etc.
Business strategy can be structured at various levels like corporate, business unit and operational.
Moving ahead, after one gets done with the task of strategy formulation, 'management of strategy' creeps into the subject.
Here comes the role of business strategy scorecard that is used for collecting the metrics, which can make a difference to the business's performance. Further, strategy analysis is yet another task that makes an entry into the area. This is utilized for judging the strength of position held by the business.
The implications of constructing business strategy include 'definite path to be moved on', 'better and optimum utilization of resources', 'improved communication to employees as to what is rewarded and what is not'.
This is the actual scorecard with Business Strategy Performance Indicators and performance indicators. The performance indicators include: business strategy, financial perspective, return on assets, return on equity, return on management, average time for decision making, customer perspective, customer gain ratio, customer satisfaction index, brand index, average customer base, internal processes perspective, new products introduction, rework time, cost incurred as administrative error, rate of productivity., education and growth perspective, satisfaction index of employees, number of assignments on cross-functional basis, traning sessions regarding r&d, training hours.
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