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Book details for Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies Buy Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies
Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies
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Robert S. Kaplan David Norton

Balanced Scorecard

Sales rank 144,469 Customers rating (based on 9 reviews)
Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies

Brief description of Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies

Applying the Balanced Scorecard Approach to Corporate-Level Strategy

Most organizations consist of multiple business and support units, each populated by highly trained, experienced executives. But often the efforts of individual units are not coordinated, resulting in conflicts, lost opportunities, and diminished performance.

Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton argue that the responsibility for this critical alignment lies with corporate headquarters. In this book, the authors apply their revolutionary Balanced Scorecard management system to corporate-level strategy, revealing how highly successful enterprises achieve powerful synergies by explicitly defining corporate headquarters’ role in setting, coordinating, and overseeing organizational strategy.

Based on extensive field research in organizations worldwide, Alignment shows how companies can build an enterprise-level Strategy Map and Balanced Scorecard that clearly articulate the "enterprise value proposition": how the enterprise creates value above that achieved by individual business units operating alone. The book provides case studies, actionable frameworks, and sample scorecards that show how to align business and support units, boards of directors, and external partners with the corporate strategy and create a governance process that will ensure that alignment is sustained.

The next breakthrough in strategy execution from the field’s premier thinkers, Alignment shows how today’s companies can unlock unrealized value from enterprise synergies.

Book details
PublisherHarvard Business Press
Release date04/2006
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EditionHardcover
List price$35
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Comments by amazon customers about Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies

Exellence book
It was a great book that help me to develop business strategy and align the resources including performance tracking.


Emphasis on Strategy Communication and Diffusion
Emphasizes the communications component of BSC implementation and management. In many cases, it is a rehash of the other Kaplan and Norton works. This isn't a bad thing, however. Kaplan & Norton were the inventors of the Balanced Scorecard, and their books are generally easy to read, with an almost ideal mix of case study, practical application and theoretical background. Being somewhat new to BSC, I have spent the last six months trying to absorb everything I can on the methodolgy. Alignment really focuses on how to spread the strategy throughout the organization, as well as to other external stakeholders. The Balanced Scorecard (book) is required reading before picking this one up - and this book is probably a better offering than Strategy Maps by Kaplan & Norton. A good read.

Excellent
I was very pleased with the product and the top of the line service provided.

Beyond strategy: the process of alignment
This book builds on and supplements earlier works by Kaplan and Norton on 'Balanced Scorecard'. The issue of alignment of those functions seen as corporate can be a continual challenge for senior executives in many organizations. Organizations are dynamic and what may appear as the best fit for corporate functions today may well be redundant tomorrow. Additionally, corporate functions are often viewed as 'overheads' and are frequently not addressed as part of any holistic organizational review. The tendency to group 'support' functions together runs the real risk of a disconnect between overall corporate objectives and delivery mechanisms. None of this is new. And no single solution will meet the needs of all organizations. Where 'Alignment' and the rest of the 'Balanced Scorecard' suite of tools can assist is by providing a framework for managers to use while they consider what the optimal solution may be within their spheres of influence. Recommended to those who are interested in trying to make sense of the dynamics and structures of organizations and who are committed to improvement. Jennifer Cameron-Smith

Book review
I ordered this for my boss. He said it gave him some direction for a project he is working on.



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