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:
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- 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
Strategy map tab
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
Initiatives > Add Initiative
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
Risk in the type list
Looks like your map has all the necessary components!
Keep working on your map. Here is a plan that you can follow:
What’s next?
