BSC Designer – Strategy Architecture & Execution Platform

BSC Designer

Strategy Architecture & Execution Platform

Transform disconnected spreadsheets into a living strategy architecture — connecting scorecards, goals, KPIs, risks, and teams across your organization.

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Supports Balanced Scorecard, OKRs, and custom frameworks — trusted by strategy teams worldwide.

Strategic Planning Software in 2025: What Leading Teams Demand

The trends of 2025/2026 include the growing complexity of the business and regulatory landscape, which impacts the requirements and application areas of strategic planning software:

Integrated stakeholder management

Multiple frameworks like Balanced Scorecard and OKRs

Tracking data and supporting evidence

Strategy cascading and alignment

Integrated risk management

Transparent and compliant use of AI

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Scale Your Strategy with Future-Ready Architecture

Ensure the future readiness and resilience of your strategy. Communicate your strategy and align your team.

Strategy implementation in a business group with multiple companies and subsidiaries.

Cascade the company’s strategy into strategic and functional scorecards.

Steps to set up a performance measurement framework to ensure data consistency, effective reporting, and continuous improvement.

Establish a performance measurement system to quantify objectives, KPIs, and initiatives.

End Spreadsheet Chaos with Seamless Strategy Alignment

Cascade high-level strategies into strategic and functional scorecards—so every team knows what to do next.

The cascading of strategy into scorecards, visualized with BSC Designer

Organize scorecards like files on a computer.

Assign access rights to the scorecards.

Communicate the company’s vision and mission.

Turn Strategic Goals into Real Results

Automate calculations—normalization, weights, indexes, and progress—even for the most complex scoring systems.

Organize goals and KPIs into a structure.

Set up KPI weights, optimization function, and grouping.

Manage weights, optimization functions, and grouping.

Calculate scorecards automatically.

Prove Performance with Evidence

Attach required evidence to KPI updates to ensure accuracy and auditability.

Define the evidence required for the indicator and for each update.

Upload required evidence before entering performance data.

Keep Strategy Alive with Real-Time KPI Data

Connect to external data sources and use them to keep KPIs updated in real time.

Connect KPIs to MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, SAP HANA, Oracle, Databricks, and Snowflake.

Import existing strategies and data for KPIs from Excel. Automate data input via Google Sheets.

Update KPIs via developed RESTful API using Zapier or MS Power Platform.

Take Control of Strategic Risk

Identify and measure

risks for strategic objectives and track their treatment initiatives.

Define risks in the context of objectives.

Quantify inherent, acceptable, and residual risk.

Visualize risk evolution.

Bowtie analysis of threats and consequences with dynamic controls.

Turn Plans into Strategic Action

Create initiatives with budgets and timelines to prepare the strategy for execution.

Define a detailed action plan with assigned owners.

Track the progress of the initiative with aligned KPIs.

Define budgets and timelines for the initiatives.

Unify Internal Controls and Policies (GRC)

Strengthen governance, reduce risk, and ensure compliance with comprehensive internal controls.

Organize internal controls into a catalog.

An example of an internal control with aligned metrics, action plans, and risks.

A risk diagram for internal control.

Show Your Entire Strategy on One Page—Strategy Map

Present your strategy on one page automatically.

An example of strategy map in BSC Designer

An example of the strategy map in BSC Designer. Source: Balanced Scorecard for IT.

Balanced Scorecard-style strategy map created automatically.

Objectives with live performance and initiatives data.

Customizable canvases with live data from the scorecard.

Make Faster, Smarter Decisions with Dashboards

Create customizable BI dashboards to track important metrics.

Track KPIs over time.

Visualize risks and risk mitigation plans.

Track the execution of action plans.

An example of the BI dashboard in BSC Designer. Source: Customer Service Strategy Scorecard.

Enhance Your Strategy with GenAI Insights

Use responsible GenAI to create goals and KPIs and add them directly to your scorecard.

Use AI to support and improve strategic analysis.

Review the AI’s suggestions before adding them!

Centralize Strategy Conversations & Decisions

Comment on KPI updates to facilitate discussions around strategy.

Provide comments on the values of the KPIs.

Discuss the initiatives and goals in detail.

Keep Stakeholders Aligned with Live, Automated Reports

Create customizable reports and schedule them for automatic delivery by email.

Example of Overview Report

Example of Cost of Strategy Report

Example of Action Plan Report

Adapt the Platform to Your Strategy—Code-Free

Adapt BSC Designer to your needs — from visual style to an extendable KPI data model.

Add, remove, or customize perspectives to match your strategic planning approach.

Match the visual style of the platform with your brand colors.

Extend the properties of goals, KPIs, and initiatives with user-defined fields.

Protect Strategy Data and Ensure Compliance

Manage your strategy data securely and stay compliant with regulations.

Two-Factor Authentication

Single sign-on

‘View’ or ‘Modify’ Access Rights
(for scorecards, indicators, dashboards)

Lock Historical Data

Approval for Entered Data

Audit Trail

Data Availability: System Backups & User Exports

Hosted on DigitalOcean infrastructure
(AICPA SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3 Type II, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS)

Data Localization Compliance

Formal Cybersecurity Program Implemented

Proven Across Industries and Sectors

BSC Designer is used by business strategists, CEOs, educators, HRs, QA specialists. Customer stories…
BSC Designer product rating: 9/10 based on 102 reviews.

We find BSC Designer a very ergonomic and intuitive tool. It quickly adapts to your way to carry out the information analysis. It is simple, fast and effective.
BSC Designer helps to avoid using and maintaining home-made Excel sheets and produces professional results. Learn more >

This tool has contributed a lot as a strategic planning and operation management solution that enabled everyone to track results at real-time and achieve assigned goals.
It provides a dynamic approach to work-flow planning unlike using Excel spreadsheet. Learn more >

We have a very good experience with BSC Designer, as this instrument can facilitate the implementation of the Balanced Scorecard in our unit.
We have been trying to design a MS Excel spreadsheet but this approach proved to be more difficult. Learn more >

We use BSC Designer for measuring performance rather than effort.
BSC Designer has allowed us to evaluate results in more than one way. Now we can reward efforts that we are sure are creating the desired results. Learn more >

I was looking for a software for strategical planning for the company where I work, therefore we are looking for a way to implement the Balanced Scorecard.
I found BSC Designer, which is a very practical software. Learn more >

A great and practical option to deliver and keep a Balanced Scorecard.
We are a consulting firm and use BSC-Designer regularly to help our clients to visualize their strategy and keep control of their vital metrics. Learn more >