Periodic Table of Frameworks · Time · Room

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Balanced Scorecard

Robert Kaplan / David Norton

You want to know if the company is actually working. The problem is the dashboard is only money, and money is a lag. Four perspectives. Skip the last three and you will hit the number while the engine dies. Keep all four and a good quarter has somewhere to stand.

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In one line

A room keeps score on four: money, customer, insides, and learning. One number is a lie about a company.

Use this on a company. It answers: Where does the time go?

How this talks to the others

  • Leads into

    Tuckman

    You cannot score a room that is still storming as if it were performing. Name the stage, then keep score.

  • Pushes against

    Rapid Planning Method

    RPM wants one Result. The scorecard wants four perspectives. They disagree about whether one number is enough.

  • Leads into

    Eisenhower matrix

    The scorecard is what makes important-not-urgent visible as a number. Without it, the matrix is a feeling.

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