Becoming A Strategy-Focused Organization

The Balanced Scorecard defines the critical objectives, measures, and initiative that describe an organization's strategy. The power of the Balanced Scorecard, however, comes in its use, not its development. The Strategy-Focused Organization is a framework for using the balanced scorecard to drive breakthrough results. For their second book on the Balanced Scorecard, Kaplan and Norton researched successful Balanced Scorecard early implementers. Five principles of successful organizations emerged from their research. These five principles describe the key element of building organization.