Any organization needs a winning strategy.
Any strategy needs to be properly executed and monitored with KPIs.

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How to Develop and Execute a Winning Strategy?

Use BSC Designer software to follow these five steps of strategic planning!

BSC Designer software will support your team in all steps of strategic planning.

Articulate the Core of Your Strategy

Start planning by defining the most important strategy statements, such as mission, vision, values, and strategic themes.
An example of mission, vision, values - BSC Designer

An example of mission, vision, values - BSC Designer

Formulate Your Strategy Using Different Frameworks

Combine different frameworks for strategic planning.

K&N Balanced Scorecard

McKinsey’s Three Horizons

VRIO Analysis

PESTEL Analysis

Scenario Planning

Describe Your Ideas on Strategy Maps

Present your strategy on one page automatically.
Balanced Scorecard Strategy Map Example

Define the Rationale, Success Factors, and Expected Results

Explain in detail what stands behind a business goal and how to achieve it.
Use different types of initiatives to describe the details of a business goal.

Use different types of initiatives to describe the details of a business goal.

Make Your Goals Tangible by Defining KPIs

Define the KPI’s name, description, measurement units, owner.
Define KPI's name, description, measurement units.

Keep KPIs Organized

Specify the KPI’s update interval, inheritance, grouping.
Control KPI update interval and grouping setting

Have Performance Data Calculated Automatically

The software does all calculations, including normalization, weights, indexes, performance and progress.
BSC Designer software does all necessary calculations of the KPI scorecard

BSC Designer software does all necessary calculations of the KPI scorecard

Track Efforts and Achieved Results

BSC Designer has native support for leading and lagging metrics.
An example of the indicator type - leading or lagging

Define Your Workflow for Strategy Planning

Use initiatives to remember the reasons behind the goals, formulate action plans, and comment on performance changes.
Use initiatives to follow certain workflow and remember the rationale of the strategy

Use initiatives to follow certain workflow and remember the rationale of the strategy

Know the Cost to Execute Your Strategy

Assign budgets, timelines and persons responsible for the initiatives to prepare the strategy for execution.
Initiative in BSC Designer software: status, budget, timeline

Initiative in BSC Designer software: status, budget, timeline

Find Performance Gaps, Predict Trends

Find KPIs that had the biggest gain/loss, the most important indicators, forecast metrics using historical data.
Analysis tab in BSC Designer software - find KPIs that need your attention

Analysis tab in BSC Designer software - find KPIs that need your attention

Make Faster Decisions with BI Dashboards

Customizable BI dashboards help to track important metrics.
BI dashboards in BSC Designer software

Get Started Using 31 Strategy Scorecard Templates

Use built-in templates for different business challenges.

Create new scorecard with a template

CEO Scorecard

Diversity and Inclusion KPIs

Sustainable Strategy

HR Scorecard

New! Digital Transformation Strategy

Innovations Scorecard

Social Media KPIs

Quality Scorecard

IT KPIs

Nonprofit Scorecard

Customer Service Scorecard

Leadership Scorecard

Procurement KPIs

Align Scorecards Around Common Strategy

Ensure effective corporate governance, risk management, and compliance – use the GRC template as a starting point.

Corporate Governance Dashboard with KPIs

Have Your Risk Control Strategy

Identify the risk, risk mitigation plan, and Key Risk Indicators for each strategic objective.

Example of the strategy scorecard for digital transformation

Scale Your Spreadsheet-Based Scorecard

Scale the prototype of your strategy scorecard from spreadsheet to professional software.

Spreadsheet vs. Specialized Scorecard Software

Import Existing Performance Data Easily

Import from spreadsheets manually, automate using RESTful API or Zapier connector.
Import KPI data from spreadsheet software

Audit Trail for Your Strategy

Keep track of the transactions related to the scorecards as well as specific KPIs.
Audit trail for the KPIs data in the scorecard.

Be Ready for All Markets

Track budgets in different currencies. Change the fiscal year start date. Select currencies, fiscal year, YTD

Free for Small Projects

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Pricing

BSC Designer is available as a subscription starting at

$ 69.95 / month

per power user

$ 59.95 / month if billed annually.

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Companies Across the Globe Trust BSC Designer

BSC Designer is used by business strategists, CEOs, educators, HRs, QA specialists.
BSC Designer Capterra's product rating: 9/10 based on 19 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 >

Emmanuel Jaunart
Founder of Mielabelo, Belgium

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 >

Nwankwo Emmanuel (MCITP)
Aegis School of Business, Mumbai, India

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 >

Pierre de Montfort
SA Army ADA School, South Africa

Use cases for the Balanced Scorecard automation software

Learn from other business professionals about Balanced Scorecard automation.

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 >

Margaret Abbott, Director,
Abbott Consulting, Honduras

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 the BSC Designer, which is a very practical software with excellent functionality. Learn more >

Fernando Latterza, Analyst of Strategical Planning, Grupo SBF, Brazil

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 >

Hugo Sanchez
DAG Consultores, Nicaragua

Key Features of BSC Designer Software

BSC Designer software has these components to support your team in strategy planning and execution.

Strategy maps with business goals mapped in four perspectives.
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Leading and lagging KPIs, metric normalization and scorecard calculation.
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Initiatives and action plans that include detail for goal execution.
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BI dashboards for data visualization and performance charts.
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Notifications to keep team members informed and accountable.
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Performance reports with important action plans, KPIs data, and charts.
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Free Training

Our web-based training sessions will give you the necessary theoretical and practical background for strategy execution domain.

Free Strategic Planning Course by BSC Designer

Strategy Self-Audit

Audit your strategy scorecard, find possible problems and fix them during the early stages before they result in bigger issues. Learn more >

Save Your Time – Use Templates

We share the best ideas about strategy execution and KPI challenges in the articles section. Need something more tangible? Check out the “Examples” section.

Start with a Free Plan

Free plan for small projects. No credit card required.
This Balanced Scorecard software comes with 31 ready-to-use scorecard templates.

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