The Balanced Scorecard as Strategic Controlling Instrument. Introducing the Indicators-based BSC for Implementation of a Corporate Strategy from Four Different Perspectives

The Balanced Scorecard as Strategic Controlling Instrument. Introducing the Indicators-based BSC for Implementation of a Corporate Strategy from Four Different Perspectives
Author: Christoper Dewangga Pramudita
Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2016-05-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3960675410

Nowadays, many companies should not only discuss about how to obtain profits from their products. They should also be forced to use any other aspect that has the ability to increase the impact for their long-term success. Examples are: discussing about the quality of their products, the relationship between them and their customers and employees, the production process as well as marketing. Those are the challenges for all managers who are not only struggling to achieve their company’s targets - high profits - but also to achieve customers', employees' and stakeholders' satisfaction. Therefore, managers need to seek out an approach which is able to help them finishing their tasks and involves all the aspects mentioned. Nevertheless, it is not easy to reconcile conflicting demands of individual interest groups. The concept of the balanced scorecard (BSC) is one of the modern approaches to handle these challenges. The balanced scorecard is the main topic of this book. More precisely, it explains the benefits of introducing the indicators-based balanced scorecard as a strategic controlling instrument for implementation of a corporate strategy from four different perspectives: financial, customer, internal business process as well as learning and growth perspective.

Benefits of Introducing the Indicators-based Balanced Scorecard as Strategic Controlling Instrument for Implementation of Corporate Strategy from Four Different Perspectives

Benefits of Introducing the Indicators-based Balanced Scorecard as Strategic Controlling Instrument for Implementation of Corporate Strategy from Four Different Perspectives
Author: Christoper Dewangga Pramudita
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2016-03-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3668173680

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Economics - Other, grade: 2,1, University of Applied Sciences Bremen, language: English, abstract: Nowadays, many companies should not only discuss about how to obtain profits from their products, which are successfully sold to their customers, but also they should be forced to use any other aspects that are able to give more impact for their long-term success. For examples, discussing about quality of their products, relationship between them and their customers and employees, and the production process as well as marketing. Those are the challenges for all managers who are not only struggling in achieving company’s targets - high profits but also in achieving customer, employees and stakeholders satisfaction. Schermerhorn (2011, p. 16) generally sees the role of managers in a company and stated that all managers, regardless of their titles, levels, types, and organisational settings, are responsible for the four primary management functions which are defined by Lewis, et al. (2007) as planning, organising, leading, and controlling. a) Planning should be described that managers have tasks in setting targets and in defining actions that are necessary to achieve the targets of their companies. b) Organizing involves determining the assignments to be done and how those assignments would be managed and coordinated to reach the company's targets. c) Leading should be defined that managers should be able to guide, to motivate, and to lead the employees in order to effectively and efficiently achieve company’s targets. d) Controlling requires the managers to monitor process of planning, leading and organising whether its process may be able to help reaching the targets, targets have been achieved as expected and applied strategies have been effective or not. It is difficult for managers to accept the challenges. Therefore, managers need to seek out an approach which is able to help them finishing their tasks and involves not only one aspect but any other aspects, such as customers, shareholders, internal business processes and employees. For other aspects, Tesarovicova (2008) clarified that a higher return on the funds and an increase of the company value is expected by shareholders and owners since customers expect a higher value and quality of products. Nevertheless, the problem appears where to reconcile conflicting demands of individual interest groups are not easy. [...]

Small Business in a Global Economy

Small Business in a Global Economy
Author: Scott L. Newbert
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 485
Release: 2015-05-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This informative set analyzes the dynamics involved with creating, growing, and managing small businesses amid different geographic, institutional, and political environments. This two-volume work explores the behavior and decision making of small companies; their business strategies for launch, growth, and survival; and their contribution to the larger global economy. Utilizing information and data gleaned from proven entrepreneurs and small business operations, this reference provides insight into the political, environmental, and competitive forces that support and impede small business ownership, and offers strategies for navigating them. Written by leading researchers from around the world, the set presents a broad view of the small business sector, focusing on conception, ownership, financing, and growth strategies. A look at external factors features the impact of political and environmental influences; extant regulations affecting small firms; and programs for promoting this sector. The first volume takes a micro view of the small business phenomenon, profiling the owner and the skills necessary to be successful. The second volume utilizes a macro approach, focusing on the operational concerns of and the environment factors bearing upon small businesses.

New Trends in Process Control and Production Management

New Trends in Process Control and Production Management
Author: Lenka Štofová
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2017-09-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 135167272X

Dynamic economics, technological changes, increasing pressure from competition and customers to improve manufacturing and services are some of the major challenges to enterprises these days. New ways of improving organizational activities and management processes have to be created, in order to allow enterprises to manage the seemingly intensifying competitive markets successfully. Enterprises apply business optimizing solutions to meet new challenges and conditions. But also ensuring effective development for long-term competitiveness in a global environment. This is necessary for the application of qualitative changes in the industrial policy. “New Trends in Process Control and Production Management” (MTS 2017) is the collection of research papers from authors from seven countries around the world. They present case studies and empirical research which illustrates the progressive trends in business process management and the drive to achieve enterprise development and sustainability.

Evaluation of the Relationship between the Implementation of Sustainability Balanced Scorecard (SBSC) and the Stock Performance

Evaluation of the Relationship between the Implementation of Sustainability Balanced Scorecard (SBSC) and the Stock Performance
Author: Christoper Dewangga Pramudita
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2019-12-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3346074919

Master's Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Business economics - Controlling, grade: 2,0, University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg, course: Finance Controlling & Accounting, language: English, abstract: In this paper, the goals will be emphasized on how the Balanced Score-card (BSC) can be improved towards a Sustainability Balanced Scorecard (SBSC) and used. Furthermore the correlation between the Implementation of Sustainability Balanced Scorecard (SBSC) and the Stock Performance in Study Case of DAX 30 Companies Performance between 2016 and 2018 would be theoretical evaluated and statistically tested. Nowadays, the term sustainability has become popular among companies to implicate social, economic and environmental pillars to their strategy and management of the company. Today, companies should not only focus on their profits, but they are also forced to concern about other issues such as social, economic and environmental. Unfortunately, many companies still do not know how to implement or measure its outcomes. Therefore, this academic paper might be helpful to assist especially managers to implement the concept of Sustainability Balanced Scorecard (SBSC) as strategic controlling for their long-term success. However, these issues would be a challenge for all managers who in general have role for planning, organizing, leading, and controlling so that they need a tool such as Sustainability Balanced Scorecard which might be supporting them. Moreover, having concern to other issues above and inserting them into the concept of Balanced Scorecard, which is in general consisting of four perspectives, such as finance, customer, internal process, and learning & growth, it might become a challenge because they probably need to spend extra more money for doing that and it might affect to their profit.

Controlling and Berlin Balanced Scorecard Approach

Controlling and Berlin Balanced Scorecard Approach
Author: Wilhelm Schmeisser
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2012-09-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3486707744

The “Harvard Balanced Scorecard model” by Kaplan and Norton wishes to make strategies communicable and more manageable for companies across all management levels within the company. To this effect, the balanced scorecard is a qualitative controlling or performance management instrument.

Measuring and Controlling Sustainability

Measuring and Controlling Sustainability
Author: Adam Lindgreen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2018-09-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315401894

Efforts to establish the measurement and control of sustainability have produced notable tools, but those instruments lack applicability in practice. Increasing the level of standardization of such tools also seems difficult to achieve, because the contexts surrounding the focal organizations differ considerably. Therefore, what we need is a systematic, interdisciplinary assessment of how to measure and control sustainability, so that we can establish an essential definition and up-to-date picture of the field. Measuring and Controlling Sustainability attempts to provide such an assessment in 17 chapters, organized into four main topic sections: (a) organizations and social value creation: concepts, responsibilities, and barriers; (b) accounting, measurement, performance, and diffusion of social value; (c) practical and managerial insights from real-life cases; and (d) choices, incentives, guidance, and ethics. This research anthology provides a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge theories and research that will further the development and advancement of measuring and controlling sustainable efforts in theory and managerial practice.

The Balanced Scorecard

The Balanced Scorecard
Author: Robert S. Kaplan
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1996-08-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1422148165

The Balanced Scorecard translates a company's vision and strategy into a coherent set of performance measures. The four perspectives of the scorecard--financial measures, customer knowledge, internal business processes, and learning and growth--offer a balance between short-term and long-term objectives, between outcomes desired and performance drivers of those outcomes, and between hard objective measures and softer, more subjective measures. In the first part, Kaplan and Norton provide the theoretical foundations for the Balanced Scorecard; in the second part, they describe the steps organizations must take to build their own Scorecards; and, finally, they discuss how the Balanced Scorecard can be used as a driver of change.