Intrafocus publishes final results of business scorecard survey

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Using a formal scorecard approach to manage business performance is becoming much more commonplace with the advent of easily accessible Cloud based systems and technology.

Winchester, England (PRWEB UK) 5 February 2013

The 2012 Annual Business Scorecard survey was conducted between the months of September and November. Survey participants were determined through a pre-selection process to ensure a high quality response. The objective was to survey senior executives, those people directly involved in formulating company/organisation strategy. The survey results can be downloaded from the Intrafocus web site – Survey Results.

“We were very encouraged by the results of this survey,” said Intrafocus. “Using a formal scorecard approach to manage business performance is becoming much more commonplace with the advent of easily accessible Cloud based systems and technology”

Highlights from the survey include:

•     Scorecards are in use across all industries. The format of the scorecards varies considerably and seems to grow through specific company/organisational need.
•     There is an emerging use of dedicated technology to manage strategy, objectives and KPI scorecards. However, the vast majority of scorecards are still spreadsheet based.
•     There are a small number of companies/organisations that manage their strategy, objectives and scorecards using free form documentation.
•     The majority of scorecards are used to simply report on progress ‘up-the-chain’. In other words they are a mechanism to ensure executive management is informed about the business.
•     There is, however, a large minority who believe that the scorecard process is an instrument for positive strategic change.
•     Over a third of the companies surveyed believed that the way in which their companies were measured could be improved; only a very small proportion was highly satisfied.

The results of this survey provide encouragement to both executive management and practitioners alike. Although there is a majority view that things need to be measured just to monitor operations, the introduction of technology in scorecard use for strategic improvement suggests more formal approaches have real value.

About Intrafocus:
Intrafocus is a business performance management software reseller and consultancy. Having invested heavily in lighter-footprint performance management software Intrafocus believe that companies and organisations want easy-to-use web-based tools to examine and manage their performance data more effectively.

Intrafocus is the European distributor of QuickScore is the only business performance management software formally recommended by the Balanced Scorecard Institute.

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