Product Description

Created in Excel, balanced scorecards enable you to monitor operations and tactics, while operational dashboards is a set of indicators regarding the state of a business metric or process—both features are in high demand for many large organizations. This book serves as the first guide to focus on combining the benefits of balanced scorecards, operational dashboards, performance managements, and data visualization and then implement them in Microsoft Excel.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19747 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780470386811
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Back Cover

Create Balanced Scorecards and operational dashboards that drive success

Balanced Scorecards help organizations clarify their strategy, translate strategy into action, and successfully execute their strategy. Operational dashboards are critical for monitoring and managing high performance.

This book is a guide for those who define and build these business performance tools: executive sponsors, operational managers, facilitators, and Excel developers. Based on years of experience, these step-by-step methods will help you develop Balanced Scorecards and operational dashboards that drive strategic execution and operational performance.

• Write a strategic Destination Statement that clarifies your vision

• Build a Strategy Map illustrating strategic objectives and the causal links that drive success

• Map operational processes to identify leverage points with the greatest impact

• Identify the "critical few" metrics that drive and measure success

• Gain buy-in with Tactical Action Plans and Implementation Plans

• Build impressive, dynamic Excel scorecards and dashboards using only spreadsheet functions

• Build powerful charts and analyses that aid business decision making

• Develop portable Balanced Scorecards that are secure and easy to maintain

Companion Web site

Download free Excel sample files at www.wiley.com/go/scorecardsanddashboardswithexcel. You can also find additional resources on Balanced Scorecards and operational dashboards at www.torconsulting.com

About the Author

Ron Person is Managing Director of Tor Consulting, Inc., a firm passionately dedicated to helping organizations execute their strategy and build measurable high performance. He is certified as a Balanced Scorecard consultant through the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative founded by Drs. Kaplan and Norton, founders of the Balanced Scorecard, and he is a member of the California Awards for Performance Excellence Board of Examiners, 2008 (California's Malcolm Baldridge Award). Ron's clients span a wide range of industries in the U.S. and internationally.

Customer Reviews

Ron Person hits a home run with this practical guide to dashboards
I've been a big fan of Tufte and Few over the years. Today. most dashboards being created in business are gaudy, 3D, visually distracting junk. In this book, Ron takes you through the process of creating practical, useful, cost-effective dashboards using the most ubiquitous analysis tool available today: Microsoft Excel.

Ron provides a strong theoretical foundation in the first part of the book with his excellent summary of Balanced Scorecards. In the second part of the book, he describes how to create metrics for your business. In the third part, he provides practical examples of how to build dashboards in Excel. He has a clear command of Excel and includes numerous samples and lots of formulas for creating useful dashboards. I found Chapter 26 to be especially useful because he describes MicroCharts from BonaVista Systems. This software add-in allows you to create Tufte's sparklines and Few's bullet graphs. This makes creating powerful dashboards in Excel easy.

Ron hits a home run with this book. The only criticism I have is that he promotes his consulting business a little hard. In his defense, a lot of what he describes in the book is hard to build into the culture of an organization without external guidance. That said, I strongly recommend this book.

Excellent Treatise on Balanced Scorecards with valuable Excel Pointers
Ron Person has a profound grasp of the subject of Balanced Scorecards (BSCs) and Operational Dashboards. The first half of this book will give you an excellent understanding of BSCs in a unusually readable and understandable format. Ron includes valuable insights, pointers, examples and cautionary tales. In addition, he provides recommendations for external references for more information or to obtain sample BSCs and dashboards.

The second half of the book covers the use of MS Excel for the development of BSCs and operational dashboards in Excel 2007 and older versions of Excel. However, he also discusses the use of other tools and explains advantages and disadvantages of each. "Balanced Scorecards & Operational Dashboards with Microsoft Excel" is worth the price just for the powerful and creative Excel graphing techniques and presentation ideas and pointers. The book is an excellent primer and reference. You won't be disappointed.

Power of Excel in measuring and monitoring performance
This book gave me confidence in using excel to plan, develop and rollout enterprise-wide dashboards using excel features. I no longer have to wait for expensive/resource-consuming enterprise wide BI tool applications.

I recommend this book to anyone who want to be self sufficient in bulding dashboards...it works.

Thanks Ron for good job.