SV: OS and balanced scorecards?

[Thomas Herrmann]

Thank you dear friends for giving feedback on this quest!
I had another reply off list which I found interesting too. If you?re
interested there is some more information on:
http://www.healthyscorecard.com
My thoughts about balanced scorecards are that it might have some use for
some organizations but I think it is a lot of work for what might be solved
easier by opening up space regularily. But of course, it is much more
controlled, and controlling. And if that?s the name of the game...

This balanced scorecard-thing seems quite hot over here in Sweden so I will
investigate further how we can get through with our message to offer other
ways to reach the same goals, that is, if the goals are to bring about
healthier workplaces. Eiwor Backelund and I do offer quite a few
oppportunities for working with organizational health and balance this
coming year and Birgitt and Ward Williams will come in April offering a
workshop on Individual health and balance. We also plan to host a workshop
with Harrison and the Practice of Peace in Scandinavia later this year.
How?s that for a start?
Warmest regards
Thomas
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  Amne: Re: OS and balanced scorecards?


    Its funny how one's devil strikes. Just incoming to my inbox:

    FIRST EVER HUMAN CAPITAL EUROPEAN SUMMIT 2004

    Based on the outstanding success in the US, Balanced Scorecard
Collaborative and Leading Minds proudly present the Human Capital European
Summit 2004, "Aligning Human Capital with Business Strategy through the
Application of the Balanced Scorecard" 25-26th March 2004 in Amsterdam.

      a.. Understand the alignment of Human Capital to strategy
      b.. Measure the contribution of Human Capital to business performance
      c.. Create a framework for organizational alignment
      d.. Create HR strategy maps and BSC's
    Register before 31 January 2004 and receive a free copy of Kaplan and
Norton's new book, "Strategy Maps: Turning Intangible Assets into Tangible
Outcomes." Go to

    www.bsceventportfolio.com/hcnl0304
    or contact booking at leading-minds.com or call 377 97 97 39 46 to
register.

    I can tell you Human Capital is a topic that's very important if we
develop its tracking slowly (may take 5 years to openly find any benchmarks
that get near to real human contexts) - so from my biased side I regard this
pre-emptive conference strike as depressing BS news.



    Worse the book I am co-authoring has a very similar title to K&N's new
opus but will undoubtedly seek to mean something wholly different by maths
of mapping human relationships. Chris Macrae, wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk,
www.valuetrue.com

    Previously

    Dear Lilly, and Open Spacers



    AS one mathematician to another, its not often I disagree with you -and
perhaps I am being pedantic-  but strictly speaking the originators of
Balanced Scorecard have confessed that its spirit was intended to show that
the quadrants of customer, learning and competitor could be translated back
into MBA measurements and business case numbers as usual - at least I
remember reading such a bookmark and if its really important to provide that
evidence I'd happily search for 2 hours or until I find it. At the end of
the day a balanced scorecard averages and linearises its outputs in ways
that look historically precise, which has nothing to do with what will
happen or be innovated next (even though any relationship system is spinning
growth or destruction depending how the people (relationships) in it have
been treated over time)



    Mathematically you cannot sum where the performance of a self-organising
system is leading to (or any company where people are the heroes) in numbers
(however many professors try or say you can) though you can provide maps to
keep on iteratively editing for everyone to participate in which is what you
should be governing the future of your most precious human links around



    I did try to make this point at the guest lecture you invited me to give
but I know its not something that MBAs who have just got in debt with long
courses on traditional management theory want to hear.



    I think what can do is say that the balanced scorecard can be used to
open another door of management thinking but it certainly isn't the
measurement of that.and living systems like the human body - so I am told -
are only ever balanced the second before they die (which may show that the
professors didn't really know the territory they were naming)



    Sincerely

    Chris Macrae





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