BSC Designer

Balanced Scorecard Software

An ad-hoc approach (spreadsheets) → a strategy deployed in scorecards with cascading and GRC functions.

BSC Designer - Strategic Planning Platform

What is Strategy Software in 2024?

The trends of 2024 include the growing complexity of the business and regulatory landscape, which impacts the requirements and application areas of strategic planning software:

Yes Integrated stakeholder management

Yes GRC and internal controls functions

Yes Transparent and compliant use of AI

Yes Multiple frameworks like Balanced Scorecard and OKRs

Yes Strategy cascading and alignment

Yes Integrated risk management

Yes Effective strategy communication via strategy maps

Yes Strategy ownership and accountability

How BSC Designer Implements Strategy in Practice

The Strategy Implementation System explains how to convert high-level strategy into quantified goals and initiatives.

Strategy Implementation System - Step 1 - Create a Strategy Core
Strategy Implementation System - Step 2 - Decomposition into strategic and functional scorecards
Step 4 - decompose high-level objectives into goals, KPIs, risks, initiatives.

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Develop, Deploy, and Collaborate on Your Strategy

A workspace for your strategy. Cascade high-level strategies into strategic and functional scorecards.

Organize strategy and functional scorecards in BSC Designer

Organize scorecards like files on a computer.Organize scorecards like files on a computer.
Assign access rights to the scorecards.Assign access rights to the scorecards.
Communicate the company's vision and mission.Communicate the company’s vision and mission.

Make Your Goals Tangible by Defining KPIs

The software does all calculations, including normalization, weights, indexes, calculation of progress.
Manage Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in BSC Designer

Managing key performance indicators (KPIs) in BSC Designer. Source: View Balanced Scorecard for HR online in BSC Designer Balanced Scorecard for HR.

Organize goals and KPIs into a structure.Organize goals and KPIs into a structure.
Set up KPI weights, optimization function, and grouping.Manage weights, optimization functions, and grouping.
Calculate scorecards automatically.Calculate scorecards automatically.

Connect KPIs to the Data Sources

Connect to external data sources using a direct database connection, Google Sheets, Zapier, or RESTful API.

Connect KPIs to databases
Create SQL indicators to connect directly to databases.
Import data from Excel
Import existing strategies and data for KPIs from Excel. Automate data input via Google Sheets.
Update KPIs with Google Sheets, Zapier, RESTful API
Update KPIs via developed RESTful API using Zapier or MS Power Platform.

Track Risks and Risk Treatment Initiatives

Identify and measure Risk icon in BSC Designer risks for strategic objectives.
Managing Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) in BSC Designer

A risk diagram illustrating inherent, residual, and acceptable risks. Source: View Customer Service Strategy Scorecard online in BSC Designer Customer Service Strategy Scorecard.

Define risks in the context of objectives.
Define risks in the context of objectives.
Quantify inherent, acceptable, and residual risk.
Quantify inherent, acceptable, and residual risk.
Visualize risk evolution.
Visualize risk evolution.

Have Specific Action Plans to Execute Your Strategy

Upload documents, assign budgets, timelines and persons responsible for the initiatives to prepare the strategy for execution.
Action plans and initiatives in BSC Designer

An example of the initiative in BSC Designer. Source: View Balanced Scorecard for HR online in BSC Designer Balanced Scorecard for HR.

Define a detailed action plan with assigned owners.
Define a detailed action plan with assigned owners.
Track the progress of the initiative with aligned KPIs.
Track the progress of the initiative with aligned KPIs.
Define budgets and timelines for the initiatives.
Define budgets and timelines for the initiatives.

Build a Framework of Internal Controls

Minimize risks and ensure compliance by implementing comprehensive internal controls.
An examples of the library of internal controls in BSC Designer

An example of a catalog of internal controls. Source: View Catalog of Internal Controls online in BSC Designer Catalog of Internal Controls.

Organize internal controls into a catalog
Organize internal controls into a catalog.
An example of an internal control with aligned metrics, action plans, and risks.
An example of an internal control with aligned metrics, action plans, and risks.
A risk diagram for internal control.
A risk diagram for internal control.

Create Strategy Maps Automatically

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: View Balanced Scorecard for IT online in BSC Designer Balanced Scorecard for IT.

Balanced Scorecard-style strategy map created automatically.
Balanced Scorecard-style strategy map created automatically.
Objectives with live performance and initiatives data.
Objectives with live performance and initiatives data.
Customizable canvases with live data from the scorecard.
Customizable canvases with live data from the scorecard.

Align Scorecards Around Common Strategy

Align functional and strategy scorecards by data or by context to form a coherent strategy.

Strategy Implementation System - Step 2 - Decomposition into strategic and functional scorecards
Align strategic and functional scorecards by connecting them through perspectives, objectives, or context.
Strategy Implementation System - Step 3 - Decomposition into goal, kpis, initiatives, risks

Make Faster Decisions with BI Dashboards

Customizable BI dashboards help to track important metrics.

Track KPIs over time.Track KPIs over time.
Visualize risks and risk mitigation plans.Visualize risks and risk mitigation plans.
Track the execution of action plans.Track the execution of action plans.

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

Keep Stakeholders Informed with Performance Reports

Customizable reports in HTML, PDF, Excel formats – view online or schedule sending by email.

Customizing the Platform with No-Code

To be agile, BSC Designer was designed with a minimalist approach. To automate challenges related to strategic planning and GRC, it relies on a few customizable components.

Organize scorecards like files on a computer.Scorecards serve as containers for other components.
Organize goals and KPIs into a structure.Inside the scorecard, the basic components are goals, KPIs, and initiatives.
Custom fields allows customizing basic components in BSC DesignerThe properties of basic components can be extended with user-defined fields.

Data Governance

Share scorecards with your team; define if data entered by a user needs to be approved; control changes via audit trail.

Yes Two-Factor Authentication
Yes ‘View’ or ‘Modify’ Access Rights
(for scorecards, indicators, dashboards)
Yes Lock Historical Data
Yes Approval for Entered Data
Yes Audit Trail
Yes Data Localization Compliance
Yes Hosted securely on DigitalOcean Platform
(AICPA SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3 Type II, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS)
Yes Formal Cybersecurity Program Implemented

AI-Driven Strategic Analysis

Provide GenAI with contextual information about your strategy in a transparent, accountable, and privacy-conscious way.

Provide the AI with relevant context for strategic analysis.

Companies Across the Globe Trust BSC Designer

BSC Designer is used by business strategists, CEOs, educators, HRs, QA specialists. Customer stories…
BSC Designer 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 >

Start with a Free Plan

Free plan for small projects. No credit card required.
This Balanced Scorecard software comes with 38 ready-to-use scorecard templates.

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