“Delegate” indicators and categories in Balanced Scorecard
As it is known, Balanced Scorecard concept stands not only for the perspectives and measurements but also for the fast and uninterrupted communications between staff members all over the company. One of the most important communication functions is establishing cascading within the company. The linking process between company’s users needs to be performed as fast as possible and that is why any Business Intelligence software contains a module of importing and exporting tasks between staff members.
Referring to BSC Designer, it certainly provides cascading tools but in earlier versions it had just “imported indicator” function which could only import tasks but not to export them. A description of how to set up cascading within the company using “imported indicator” function might be found in the article “Cascading process in company with BSC Designer”. Also the description of this instrument itself might be found in the article “How to manage data sources with BSC Designer”.
Practically, most of the companies have top – bottom direction of management hierarchy. According to the original Balanced Scorecard concept it is absolutely logical because the strategic level knows exactly the situation with strategy and gives objective strategic goal to the operational level. Only then the strategic goal translates into detailed tasks for specialists. It means the need of managers to have an opportunity to delegate tasks to lower hierarchy level staff.
The latest version of BSC Designer software product now allows delegation via the new tools called “Delegate category” and “Delegate as a project”. It is an easy to operate and really useful function aimed to set up top to bottom cascading directly. Now every manager might set tasks for the specialists or managers he or she stands under in hierarchy as well as CEO might set tasks and delegate responsibilities to their vice precedents.
“Delegate as a project” function with BSC Designer
How to update Balanced ScoreCard Designer program
Please make sure you have the latest version of the program to use “Delegate” function. This function might work correctly in BSC projects only if the *.bsc file was created by the new version of BSC Designer. It might happen that files created by older versions could not present the information of delegated categories correctly.
Current users need to download BSC Designer installer and overwrite the software. No system’s reboot is needed. After the installation is done run the program and use all new functions and features!
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How to set up cascading using new function
The new function provides new ways of setting up cascading within the company. Read the article “Improved cascading with BSC Designer PRO” to learn how to use “Delegate” function and how to set up the linking process between employees according to the hierarchy of the company.
