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2008-08-27 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#34) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2008-08-25 Meeting the authors 1:1 Are you interested in meeting the authors of Making Scorecards Actionable? If so, please drop us a note (under Contact) and we will make sure to arrange a meeting as soon as we are in your neighbourhood. |
2008-08-14 Tell us about advanced BSC users (in Swedish) We are looking for cutting edge Balanced Scorecard users. Follow the link below to send us information about the organization. |
2008-06-25 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#33) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2008-06-13 University of Chicago Convocation Dr. Petri will participate when The University of Chicago will confer nearly 3,000 degrees on students from the College, graduate divisions and professional schools at its 494th Convocation ceremonies. |
2008-05-27 Seminar for Landstinget Dalarna May 29-30, Nils-Göran Olve and Carl-Johan Petri will run an applied seminar on the role of the controller and balanced control in public agencies |
2008-05-01 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#32) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2008-04-15 What is a Business Controller? Tomorrow, April 16, Nils-Göran Olve and Carl-Johan Petri will run a full day workshop on the expectations on business controllers. Among other things, the controllers’ responsibilities in scorecard projects will be tackled. |
2008-03-26 Workshop on how to make Scorecards Actionable April 21, we run a full day workshop on how to make scorecards actionable, in cooperation with Civilekonomernas Informations AB. |
2008-03-06 New article on corporate governance and balanced scorecard Dr. Petri and professor Olve discuss the relationship between corporate governance and balanced management control in a proprietary article for Bonnier Business Publishing’s edition “Business Development” |
2008-02-27 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#31) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2008-02-23 Article on Action Research by professor Olve Professor Olve and co-authors recently published an article on collaborative research in International Journal of Action Research (see link for more information) |
2008-02-13 Tell us about advanced BSC users (in Swedish) We are looking for cutting edge Balanced Scorecard users. Follow the link below to send us information about the organization. |
2008-01-25 Making Scorecards Actionable on Top Ten list Jonathan Becher, SVP/GM of Strategy Management at SAP (former president and CEO Pilot Software), recommends Making Scorecards Actionable as one of the top ten best books about strategy and performance management. |
2008-01-04 Article for Nordic workshop on Management Control Nils-Göran Olve and Carl-Johan Petri’s article “Profiling the Business Controller’s role – describing intentions, expectations and action” has been accepted for presentation at the Nordic Workshop on Management Control in Linköping, Jan 31 – Feb 1 2008. See link for abstract. |
2007-12-26 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#30) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2007-12-05 Guest lecture at Gothenburg University December 6, Carl-Johan Petri will participate in the course “IT and Business value”, and talk about how to use scorecards to leverage IT-investments. |
2007-11-28 Breakfast seminar November 29, Carl-Johan Petri will participate in a breakfast seminar with the management consulting companies Andersson&Bydler and Pharos Executive Partners. |
2007-11-08 Thai translation Making Scorecards Actionable is now available in Thai translation. |
2007-10-30 New password If you participated in the seminar ”The controller’s 4 roles” and haven’t received the new password, please contact Carl-Johan Petri. |
2007-10-24 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#29) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2007-10-22 What is a Business Controller? October 24, Nils-Göran Olve and Carl-Johan Petri will run a full day workshop on the expectations on business controllers. Among other things, the controllers’ responsibilities in scorecard projects will be tackled. |
2007-10-08 Creating a balanced control philosophy October 10, professor Olve will talk about how to establish a balanced control philosophy aligned with the business strategy at the conference “Contollerarbete i praktiken” |
2007-09-25 Professor Olve on an examination committee October 3, professor Olve will serve on the examination committee when Björn Johansson will defend his doctoral dissertation “on sourcing options for hosting of software applications”. |
2007-09-13 Meeting the authors 1:1 Are you interested in meeting the authors of Making Scorecards Actionable? If so, please drop us a note (under Contact) and we will make sure to arrange a meeting as soon as we are in your neighbourhood. |
2007-08-29 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#28) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2007-08-23 Free excerpts from the book Click on “The Book” in the menu to the left to read short excerpts from all chapters in the book. |
2007-07-24 Professor Olve in new translation Professor Olve’s book ”Balanced Scorecard” has recently been translated into Italian. |
2007-06-27 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#27) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2007-05-29 Discussing a licentiate manuscript Thursday May 31, Dr. Petri will discuss Erik Lundmark’s manuscript for his licentiate dissertation “Organisational System Change” at Linköping University “. |
2007-05-22 Key note speaker May 31, professor Olve will deliver a key note speech on the future requirements on business controllers. |
2007-05-06 Guest lecture at SSE May 8, Dr. Carl-Johan Petri will visit Stockholm School of Economics to present our view on Scorecards. |
2007-04-25 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#26) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2007-03-30 Ph. D. seminar on Scorecards at Linköping University Carl-Johan Petri has been invited to join professor Nils-Göran Olve for a literature seminar on scorecard utilization, April 4, 2007. |
2007-03-13 What is a Business Controller? March 27, Nils-Göran Olve and Carl-Johan Petri will run a full day workshop on the expectations on business controllers. Among other things, the controllers’ responsibilities in scorecard projects will be tackled. |
2007-02-28 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#25) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2007-02-06 Conferences appearances We have developed a new course that we will run in April. It is designed for BSC practitioners and will elaborate on the six design issues we present in the book. Find more information about our courses and classes under “Seminars” in the menu to the left. |
2007-01-23 Do not forget the Swedish translation of "Making Scorecards Actionable" Making Scorecards Actionable has also been translated into Swedish and is published by Liber. |
2006-12-27 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#24) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2006-11-30 Performance Drivers in new translation Our previous book on Balanced Scorecard – Performance Drivers – has recently been translated into a new Russian version. |
2006-11-07 Petri in Persian translation Carl-Johan Petri’s article “Managing geographically dispersed data acquisition” has been translated into Persian. Follow the link for more information. |
2006-10-25 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#23) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2006-10-18 Review by BusinessFinanceMag.Com Our article “Twelve Years Later: Understanding and Realizing the Value of Balanced Scorecards”, published in Ivey Business Journal has been reviewed in BusinessFinanceMag.Com’s bi-weekly newsletter. |
2006-10-04 Carl-Johan Petri in Russia Last week-end Carl-Johan Petri ran a two-day session on Strategy and Management Control at SSR Russia’s Oil- and Gas MBA program in Moscow. |
2006-09-21 What is a controller? September 28, Nils-Göran Olve and Carl-Johan Petri will run a full day workshop on the expectations on controllers. Among other things, the controllers’ responsibilities in scorecard projects will be tackled. |
2006-09-17 Japanese delegation We welcome the Japanese delegation led by professor Yoshikawa, who will visit Skandia in Sweden and the NHS in England to learn more about BSC utilization in Europe. |
2006-09-05 Olve and Petri in new book Nils-Göran Olve has edited a book on “Economic Information systems” and also contributed with an article about CIOs and controllers. Carl-Johan Petri has contributed with an article about being an “industrial ph.d. student” |
2006-08-30 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#22) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2006-08-24 Carl-Johan Petri in Saint Petersburg Carl-Johan Petri will lecture at The Stockholm School of Economics, Russia on the book Making Scorecards Actionable, August 26. |
2006-06-29 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#21) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2006-06-26 New book edited by Olve and Petri Olve and Petri have edited a book on non-financial management control based on articles by PhD students from various universities in Sweden. Follow the link to view a video presentation about the book. |
2006-06-16 Working with the NHS We have worked with the NHS for sometime, assisting them in developing Workforce Scorecards. Some of the results can be found on the NHS’s website. |
2006-06-06 Free excerpts from the book Click on “The Book” in the menu to the left to read short excerpts from all chapters in the book. |
2006-05-23 How actionable is your Scorecard? Use our “BSC Analyser” to diagnose how actionable your Scorecard is. You find a link to the Analyser in the menu to the left. |
2006-05-05 Yet another translation… Making Scorecards Actionable has recently been translated into Japanese and can be bought from Amazon’s Japanese web shop. |
2006-04-26 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#20) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2006-04-07 Nils-Göran Olve will chair conference on management control in public sector Nils-Göran Olve will chair the conference ”Verksamhetsstyrning i offentlig förvaltning” (eq. Management Control in the public sector) in Stockholm, May 17 – 18, 2006. |
2006-03-27 What is a controller? Tomorrow, Nils-Göran Olve and Carl-Johan Petri will run a full day workshop on the expectations on controllers. Among other things, the controllers’ responsibilities in scorecard projects will be tackled. |
2006-03-24 How BSC savvy is your organization? Use our diagnostic tool to compare your BSC experiences with the suggestions we present in our book Making Scorecards Actionable. Click on “BSC Analyser” in the menu to the left, and respond to the twelve statements presented. Following the system will give you a summary on your status and which issues might need further improvements. |
2006-03-19 Nils-Göran Olve chairs Controller Congress Nils-Göran Olve will chair the annual conference “Controller Congress” in Stockholm, March 23 – 24 2006 |
2006-03-17 Interview with Nils-Göran Olve and Carl-Johan Petri The Association of Swedish Engineering Industries’ monthly magazine features an article about our study on BSC utilization in their latest issue: #2 2006. |
2006-01-18 Do not forget the Swedish translation Making Scorecards Actionable has also been translated into Swedish and is published by Liber. |
2006-01-04 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#18) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2005-12-30 Slides from IIR conference The slides from the Corporate Performance Management conference by IIR has been published in the archive. |
2005-12-21 Delay Due to technical difficulties, the slides from the IIR Conference at Berns have not been published yet. Please, contact Carl-Johan if you like a copy of the presentation. The slides will be published in the archive as soon as possible. |
2005-12-09 Carl-Johan Petri key note speaker Carl-Johan Petri will deliver a key note speech at IIR’s conference “CPM – Lönsam verksamhetsstyrning”, December 19, 2005 |
2005-11-24 Slides from presentation at Jönköping University The slides from Carl-Johan Petri’s seminar at School of Engineering at Jönköping University are published in the archive. |
2005-11-22 Slides from Euroforum conference Carl-Johan Petri/Nils-Göran Olve’s slides from the conference ”Controllern som kommunikatör” is available in the archive. |
2005-11-12 Slides from EKI’s Homecoming day Nils-Göran Olve’s slides from the presentation at EKI’s Homecoming day can by found in the archive. |
2005-11-01 Review of our BSC survey The news site Ubuntulinux.se summarizes our investigation about BSC utilization for The Association of Swedish Engineering Industries. |
2005-10-27 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#17) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2005-10-06 How actionable is your Scorecard? Use our “BSC Analyser” to diagnose how actionable your Scorecard is. You find a link to the Analyser in the menu to the left. |
2005-09-13 Texts for ph. d. course in the archive Ph.D. students attending the course “Non-financial information in management control” can download Nils-Göran’s two articles for our first session, from the archive. |
2005-09-07 Winn a signed copy of the book Take a minute to tell us about Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter. What do you think about it and what more do you wish? To the questionnaire |
2005-08-31 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#16) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2005-08-24 Interested in our case descriptions? If you find the case descriptions in the book interesting feel free to contact us for further information about the companies, why they embarked on a scorecard effort and which results they have experienced. |
2005-06-29 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#15) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2005-06-27 Review in Manilla Times The content of our book, Making Scorecards Actionable, is mentioned as an example on what needs to be considered behind the glossy presentation of Balanced Scorecard. |
2005-06-20 Ph. D. course on balanced scorecard Professor Nils-Göran Olve and Dr. Carl-Johan Petri will run a ph.d. course on non-financial information in management control. For more information, see the curriculum on Linköping University’s web site. |
2005-06-09 Carl-Johan Petri key note speaker on CPM conference Carl-Johan Petri will be presenting our views on balanced scorecard and strategy maps on IIR’s CPM conference in Stockholm next week. Please check out “Seminars” to the left to see where and when we will appear during the autumn. |
2005-05-16 Slides from Controllerdagarna Slides from Controllerdagarna Carl-Johan Petri’s and Nils-Göran Olve’s slides from Controllerdagarna are published in the archieve. |
2005-05-04 Slides from guest lecture at Linköpings University The slides from the guest lecture at the course IT Control at Linköping University are published in the archive. |
2005-04-28 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#14) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2005-04-11 Norwegian review of our BSC survey The Norwegian business website ”Business IQ” summarizes our investigation about BSC utilization for The Association of Swedish Engineering Industries. |
2005-03-16 Seminar in South Africa Dr. Petri will run a series of workshops in Cape Town in the end of March (March 19 to April 1). Please send us a note if you want to participate. |
2005-03-02 Article about our BSC study in CIO Sweden CIO Sweden features a full page review of our study on BSC utilization for The Association of Swedish Engineering Industries. |
2005-02-21 What’s up with BSC? Nils-Göran Olve and Carl-Johan Petri will present their findings from a study on Swedish engineering companies’ use of balanced scorecard at a seminar with Teknikföretagen, March 11. |
2005-02-15 Article in Barometern February 14, the newspaper Barometern featured an article about Making Scorecards Actionable, the languages it has been translated to and the authors’ present assignments. |
2005-02-08 Olve and Petri in the media Computer Sweden summarizes our investigation about how balanced scorecards are used in Swedish technology companies. |
2005-01-31 Press conference, Feb 4 Nils-Göran Olve will present our survey for The Association of Swedish Engineering Industries on the 4th of February. See the December Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter for an English summary of the results. |
2005-01-25 Making Scorecards Actionable in Chinese translation Making Scorecards Actionable has recently been published in simplified Chinese. Later this year an Orthodox Chinese version will be released. |
2005-01-06 Do not forget the Swedish translation Making Scorecards Actionable has also been translated into Swedish and is published by Liber. |
2004-12-29 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#12) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2004-12-20 Making Scorecard Actionable en la traducción española Making Scorecards has been translated in to Spanish. |
2004-11-29 Jan Roy key note speaker in Brazil Jan Roy delivered a key note speech at the “Congresso Internacional Gestão Classe Mundial” in Sao Paolo (Brazil), on the 22nd of November 2004 |
2004-11-17 Report for the Swedish government Together with colleague Dr. Anders Ljung, Nils-Göran Olve and Carl-Johan Petri have written a report on Trust and IT for the Swedish government’s special advisory group on strategic IT issues. In the report strategy maps and scorecards are suggested as a method to monitor and create trust in IT. |
2004-10-27 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#11) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2004-10-22 Making Scorecards Actionable reviewed in Malaysian newspaper The Star, a Malaysian paper, has reviewed Making Scorecards Actionable on their web site. |
2004-09-23 Special edition about Scorecards The Swedish magazine “Management” features a special edition about Balanced Scorecards and Nils-Göran Olve and Jan Roy are presented as global thought leaders in this area. |
2004-09-13 Article by Olve and Petri in Controllerhandboken A new version of Controllerhandboken has been released (version 8). Nils-Göran Olve and Carl-Johan Petri have contributed with a chapter on Balanced Scorecard and Strategy maps. |
2004-08-25 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#10) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2004-08-13 Nils-Göran Olve will chair "Controllern som kommunikatör" Nils-Göran Olve will act as chairman on Euroforum’s conference, 27-28 October 2004. |
2004-07-07 Interview with Nils-Göran Olve in Computer Sweden Nils-Göran Olve is interviewed about the changing requirements on the finance department in Computer Sweden. |
2004-06-30 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#9) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2004-06-14 Recommended reading by Amazon Amazon.com recommends a combo buy of Making Scorecards Actionable and Kaplan and Norton’s latest book Strategy Maps |
2004-05-25 Review in CIO Sweden The Swedish translation of Making Scorecards Actionable, “Framgångsrikt Styrkortsarbete” is reviewed in the April issue of CIO Sweden. The reviewer writes: “In the book… we get a credible critical examination of both the method and experiences from implementing and using it…” |
2004-05-13 Article in Ivey Business Journal May/June 2004 In the last issue of Ivey Business Journal (May/June 2004) we have published an article based on our book Making Scorecards Actionable. |
2004-04-28 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#8) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2004-04-21 Slides from ”Controller i offentlig förvaltning” Nils-Göran Olve’s slides from the conference ”Controller i offentlig förvaltning” can be downloaded from the Archive (see menu to the left). |
2004-04-19 Guest lecture at Linköping University Carl-Johan Petri will participate in the course “IT Control”, and talk about the relationship between functional strategies and design of management control systems. |
2004-04-06 Multi-client project We are about to set up a multi-client project about BSC implementations in the industrial sector. Please let us know if you are interested in the project. |
2004-03-29 Making Scorecards Actionable wordt herzien op Nederlandse website Managementboek.nl summarizes Making Scorecards Actionable in Dutch on their website. |
2004-03-18 Nils-Göran Olve will chair Controller Congress Nils-Göran Olve will act as chairman on Euroforum’s Controller Congress 2004, 23-24 march 2004. |
2004-03-08 Computer Sweden corrects misleading article Today Computer Sweden publishes a follow up article on their misleading article about the relationship between us and Pointer. |
2004-03-07 Misleading information in “Computer Sweden” According to Computer Sweden, we are cooperating with the company “Pointer”. This is not true. We operate independently and have no interest in cooperating with this company. |
2004-02-25 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#7) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2004-02-13 Modest review in the ”The Globe and Mail” The Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail concludes their review of Making Scorecards Actionable with the words: “It's a dry, stilted book, but if you're dealing with scorecard issues it will definitely help.” |
2004-02-05 Interested in our case descriptions? If you find the case descriptions in the book interesting feel free to contact us for further information about the companies, why they embarked on a scorecard effort and which results they have experienced. |
2004-01-26 Buona rassegna sul Web site italiano The Italian web site ”Balanced Scorecard Review” has reviewed Making Scorecards Actionable in Italian. Follow the link for an Italian summary of the book. |
2004-01-10 Missing some slides? Have you attended one of our seminars and look for the presentation? Find most of our public presentations and download them from Archive in the menu to the left. |
2003-12-31 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (#6) Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2003-12-17 How actionable is your Scorecard? Use our “BSC Analyser” to diagnose how actionable your Scorecard is. You find a link to the Analyser in the menu to the left. |
2003-12-04 Interested in the book? If you want to browse the content of the book before you buy it, summaries of all chapters can be read under “The book” in the menu to the left. |
2003-11-27 Article by Petri and Olve in Scandinavian Brewers Review Carl-Johan Petri and Nils-Göran Olve has published an article in SBR Issue 5, October 2003, about scorecards and strategy maps. |
2003-11-18 Download slides from our Cognos presentation The slides from Carl-Johan Petri’s presentation at Cognos and TCG Cepro’s breakfast seminar are published in the Archive section. |
2003-11-12 Download slides from our Oracle presentation The slides from Nils-Göran Olve’s presentation at Oracle’s seminar can be found under Archive, in the menu to the left. |
2003-11-06 ”Framgångsrikt Styrkortsarbete” reviewed in Personal & Ledarskap 10/2003 The Swedish translation of Making Scorecards Actionable was reviewed in “Personal och Ledarskap” (eq. HR and Management) in the last issue. The reviewer particularly like that the book don’t avoid the problems with scorecards, but rather address them explicitly in order to know how to handle them. |
2003-10-29 New edition of Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter Our bi-monthly newsletter has just been published. Sign up for your own free subscription, or read previous newsletters, under the heading Newsletter in the menu to the left. |
2003-10-16 Signing the book Nils-Göran Olve and Carl-Johan Petri, authors of Making Scorecards Actionable, signed the book during the conference Ekonomdagarna in Örebro, Sweden, October 14th 2003. |
2003-10-08 Meeting the authors 1:1 Are you interested in meeting the authors of Making Scorecards Actionable? If so, please drop us a note (under Contact) and we will make sure to arrange a meeting as soon as we are in your neighbourhood. |
2003-09-29 ”Framgångsrikt Styrkortsarbete” is the current title in ”Bättre Ledarskap” More information about the Swedish edition of Making Scorecards Actionable can be found on Liber’s campaign site for their management series Bättre Ledarskap. |
2003-09-18 New press pictures available A set of new press pictures have been added under the “Authors” section. The pictures may be used without any additional permission from the authors. |
2003-09-01 Release events for the Swedish version of Making Scorecards Actionable Our publisher, Liber, will arrange two breakfast seminars to introduce the Swedish translation of the book. Register for the seminars under the section “Seminars” to the left. |
2003-08-29 New Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (# 4) The most recent bi-monthly Making Scorecards Actionable newsletter has been published and can be read under the section “Newsletters” to the left. |
2003-08-19 Buy Making Scorecards Actionable in digital format The book is no longer only available in physical format. It can also be purchased as an e-Book from Amazon.co.uk. |
2003-08-11 Introducing how to succeed with scorecards at Cognos road show The authors of Making Scorecards Actionable will appear on Cognos’ road show focusing on performance management. See under Seminars for more information. |
2003-06-26 New Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter The most recent bi-monthly Making Scorecards Actionable newsletter has been published and can be read under the section “Newsletters” to the left. |
2003-06-10 Join our BSC Concours Balanced Scorecard Concours is a multi-company programme that will provide an understanding of how to develop or improve your management control system, together with support in both planning and implementing a new balanced scorecard and associated management processes. It will also provide opportunities for learning from experience in other firms from a variety of industries. Balanced Scorecard Concours starts in Spring 2003. |
2003-06-04 Making Scorecards Actionable in Swedish translation Making Scorecards Actionable will be published by Liber, in Swedish, in august as the monthly book in their series “Bättre Ledarskap”. |
2003-05-05 New Making Scorecards Actionable Newsletter (# 2/2003) Please click on “Newsletter” in the menu to the left to find our most recent newsletter. Among other things we discuss whether it is wise to have a separate HR or people perspective in the scorecard (which is common in the Scandinavian countries) as well as summarize Sofie Roy’s doctoral dissertation “Navigating in the Knowledge Era – Metaphors and Stories in the Construction of Skandia’s Navigator”. |
2003-04-14 Nils-Göran Olve to speak at "Controller i offentlig förvaltning" On April 25, Nils-Göran Olve will present some of our cases from the public sector and their use of balanced scorecards to promote a a dialogue on strategy and execution. |
2003-04-04 Making Scorecards Actionable sold out The first print of Making Scorecards Actionable has sold out. The publisher has therefore ordered a second print that will be shipped to the bookstores in the coming week. |
2003-03-23 Good review in Personal & Ledarskap (in Swedish) Personal & Ledarskap (eq. HR & Management) reviews “Making Scorecards Actionable” and summarizes it as follows: Everyday usefulness 3/5, Inspirational 4/5, Easy-to-read 2/5. Follow the link for the full review. |
2003-03-20 Download PowerPoint presentations from the Archive If you want to download the PowerPoint slides that were presented during our breakfast seminars in March, please click on “Archive” in the menu to the left. Note that the same slide show “Roy & Olve om Scorecards.pps” (2003-03-13) was used at all four occasions. |
2003-03-12 Nice words about our previous book 2GC Active Management reviews Performance Drivers on their website: “2GC's favourite Balanced Scorecard book. Based on more modern and a wider variety of experiences of Balanced Scorecard design and use than Kaplan & Norton's work, drawn particularly from Scandinavia. ….” |
2003-02-25 Debate article by Nils-Göran Olve and Carl-Johan Petri in Dagens Industri (in Swedish) Today, Nils-Göran Olve and Carl-Johan Petri publish a debate article in Dagens Industri (Sweden’s biggest business newspaper) where they argue that sole reliance on financial performance indicators in the reward systems is counterproductive. Instead, rewards should be based on a mix of achievements regarding financial outcome, market development, process improvements and innovation. The discussion continues on DI’s web site. |
2003-02-18 Review in Dagens Industri (Sweden’s biggest business paper, in Swedish) Today, Dagens Industi reviews Making Scorecards Actionable and says: “The book is well written and concrete” and that it “…is for those who already are familiar with the Balanced Scorecards-concept. The case studies are somewhat superficial, but are probably helpful to those who have run similar projects in their organizations and wonder why they didn’t succeed”. Finally, Dagens Industri sums up “Through their own hands on experience, the authors give good advice on what is required to make this kind of management control instrument actionable”. |
2003-02-04 Interview with Jan Roy in Borås Tidning (in Swedish) Jan Roy explains how Balanced Scorecards can be used to promote internal communication in organizations and create a shared understanding of the organization’s goals and mission. |
2003-01-29 Cover story about Making Scorecards Actionable in Svenska Dagbladet The Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet features a cover story about Making Scorecards Actionable in their business section. In the article, Jan Roy and Nils-Göran Olve, explain how organizations can use scorecards to discuss strategic intentions and past achievements. |
2003-01-22 How BSC savvy is your organization? Use our diagnostic tool to compare your BSC experiences with the suggestions we present in our book Making Scorecards Actionable. Click on “BSC Analyser” in the menu to the left, and respond to the twelve statements presented. Following the system will give you a summary on your status and which issues might need further improvements. |
2003-01-16 Release date set According to our publisher, John Wiley & Sons in England, the book will be released for distribution on January 24, 2003. |
2003-01-13 Nils-Göran Olve will chair Controller Congress Nils-Göran Olve will chair Euroforum’s conference Controller Congress in Stockholm, 18-19 of March 2003. |
2003-01-10 Good review of Making Scorecards Actionable's predecessor Waymaker Solutions, a New Zealand-based consultancy, appoints "Performance Drivers" (predecessor of Making Scorecards Actionable): "Absolutely the best book on the Balanced Scorecard. Performance Drivers is more academically rigorous, more concise and more practical than Kaplan and Norton. It also includes more case studies, and more discussion of the relationship between the Balanced Scorecard and other management initiatives common in the past several years." |
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