Automated Strategy Audit with Strategy Quality Score

Let BSC Designer check the quality of your strategy map. The software will analyze your strategy map automatically and suggest some improvements.

How to Get Quality Score Calculated

To use the Strategy Quality Score, follow these steps:

1. Sign into your account at BSC Designer Online or create a free one
2. Create a scorecard with a strategy map

1. Check the quality score data

Click on the quality score indicator for more information

How can I improve my strategy map?

Here are the suggestions based on automated analysis of your strategy map.

Recommendation: Map Your Improvement Ideas as Business Goals

Business goals are building blocks of any strategy (see step 3 of the strategic planning process). Formulate hypotheses that you plan to work on and add them to the appropriate perspective of a strategy map.

Switch to the Strategy map tab
Select any perspective
Click Add button
Enter the goal’s detail and click OK

Alternatively, you can add goals on the KPIs tab.

Recommendation: Add KPIs to Make Your Strategy More Tangible

KPIs or Key Performance Indicators help to make the goals more specific. Align indicators with your goals to track their performance.

Select a business goal
Click Add button
Specify the name of the indicator
Click OK

Alternatively, you can add indicators directly on the KPIs tab.

Recommendation: Add Leading Indicators to Track the Activities

While lagging indicators validate the achieved results, leading indicators are linked to success factors and track your efforts towards reaching the goal.

Select a business goal
Click Add button
Change the type of indicator to leading
Click OK

Alternatively, you can change the type of indicator on the KPIs tab > Context tab.

Recommendation: Add Action Plans to Your Strategy Map

Add initiatives to your goals. Specify rationale, action plans, statuses, budgets, timelines, and persons responsible.

Select a business goal
Click Initiatives > Add Initiative
Enter the details of an initiative
Click OK

Alternatively, you can add initiatives on the KPIs tab.

Recommendation: Define Strategic Themes for Your Goals

Strategic themes are the pillars of your strategy. They work as a first filter for new ideas. They also make a strategy map more readable.

Double click on a business goal
Switch to the Context tab
Select the appropriate strategic theme

You can define your own strategic themes and their expected results.

Recommendation: Add Mission Statement to Your Strategy

What is your mission? What is inspiring your team? Add mission statement to your strategy map.

Switch to the KPIs tab
Select the root element
Define the mission statement below

You can also define strategy attributes for a specific scorecard or define them globally (see > Settings > Strategy).

Recommendation: Link Goals by Cause and Effect Links

Strategy is built on coherent goals. Use the link tool to show on your strategy map how different goals support each other.

Select the Link tool on the toolbar
Connect two different goals
Decide if you want the output of one goal to be an input of another

You can also add some graphical elements to explain the dependencies on your map.

Recommendation: Check the Cause-and-Effect Logic

The connection between the goals cannot skip a perspective. For example, a goal from the Learning perspective cannot impact the Customer perspective directly without passing through a goal in the Internal perspective.

Find connections that break cause-and-effect logic
Remove bad connections

Recommendation: Identify Risks

Add risk definitions with risk mitigation plans to the key strategic objectives.

Select a business goal
Click Initiatives > Add Initiative
Select Risk in the type list
Enter the details of a risk and risk mitigation plan
Click OK

Looks like your map has all the necessary components!

A scorecard with a 100% quality score is one of the evaluation criteria for the BSC Designer Specialist Certification. Learn more about our certification programs

Keep working on your map. Here is a plan that you can follow:

What’s next?

Use this checklist for an in-depth analysis of your strategy scorecard
Contact the BSC Designer team if you need any help
If you mastered the strategy design skill, then you can hide the quality score indicator via > Settings > Workflow

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