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How to Make a scorecard in Excel
Have under control all activities performed in an online business can seem impossible mission: purchasing, sales, logistics, administration, customer ... Fortunately internet provides us many tools that help us to some extent, monitoring and control everything that happens in our business.
by Jose Antonio Lujan - 28/06/2016 - 10: 50h
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However, to have a tool to measure our results, without having a target on the horizon, it can lead to a state of uncertainty in the progress of our company.
In 1992, two American economists, Robert Kaplan and David Norton developed the first Balanced Scorecard (CMI), a business management tool that measures a company's activities from vision and long-term strategy of the same . Thus, business managers provided an overview of strategy and development of the company.
Therefore, a CMI is a prerequisite for the strategic management of your business based on the definition of objectives, indicators and strategic initiatives tool. It is able to measure the evolution of all online activities of a company, in addition to controlling the evolution of the results of the targets set by control indicators.
To capture all of these results will need to know how to make a balanced scorecard in Excel. Through this type of templates we can visualize the results and KPIs from different departments in a company such as marketing, sales, HR, IT, among others.
The 7 essential points in a Balanced Scorecard in Excel
Before starting the construction of a CMI it is necessary to collect all the information at a strategic level that will serve as inputs for the construction of the scorecard. It will also help to start preparing a check-list of strategic information sources.
To start our Excel WCC guide we have established seven points:
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1. Board
The Board, or Dashboard, globally shows our strategic vision through four axes or perspectives:
Customer relations: This perspective identifies and assesses the opinions and needs of the client, such as satisfaction, the rate of return or profitability, in order to provide a greater supply line with their preferences.
Financial: This perspective is controlled from the highest levels, since it is related to business and profit figures, risk, sales growth, gross / net margin, etc., meets the needs of the shareholder.
Internal Processes: Identifies strategic objectives and metrics of the organization and production. Determines their value propositions and competitive advantages to align key activities and processes that generate quality.
Learning and Growth: Refers to the capacity for growth and adaptation that can lead an organization through the development of its human resources.
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2. Establish goals
In this first point, we must define the strategic from each of the perspectives (Financial, Internal Processes, Learning and Growth, and Customer) objectives.
The most common objectives analyzed from different perspectives can be: Customer relationship, the total number of customers (participants and acquiring new customers), which are measured by indicators such as market share and the percentage of revenue from new customers; customer satisfaction through surveys, complaints or suggestions rates, response times, etc .; the customer loyalty through indicators such as the index of purchase frequency, average retention time user, etc. and, finally, reducing delivery times measurable over time to invest in it.
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Financial: creating value through indicators, the sustainability of that value at a future time, growth rates individually along with the sector globally, turnover, profitability measured by indicators, costs, financial structure and, finally, liquidity.
Internal processes: Reduced production costs, individual production costs, improving processes and the total number of them, process performance, total number of defects, total cycle times, among others.
Learning and Growth: Talent, skills, know-how and skills, which are measured by indicators such as recruitment and training of staff; information capital: creating value, building the strategy, objectives, time and cost of this process; organizational capital: leadership, culture and teamwork.
3. Actions and observations.
In this section we list, as a check-list, all actions required to achieve each objective and from every perspective. For every action we allocate all resources involved to achieve them and the breakdown of tasks for each action.
Among the actions must take into account a number of factors that directly influence their achievement. It may be the case for achieving concrete action has to invest a sum of money or a necessary successfully achieve a prior action.
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4. Metrics
This sheet will be the basis of all the data from the different analytical tools (Analytics, ERPs, CRMs). It will show the evolution of our business, quantitatively comparing the targets with the results. In this section we will have different KPIs and graphs that allow us to know at all times whether or not we are diverting our goals.
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5. Target Audience or we headed
We set each perspective according to each action, and every action will be directed to a objetivodeterminado public. Environment that audience, there are set properly the actions, taking into account a number of characteristics such as sex, age, geographic location, tastes and preferences, needs, problems, among others.
6. Schedule
The schedule of our CMI represents, in time, our actions, so that, quickly identify dependent actions or milestones to be met for achieving the overall objectives.
The schedule, in addition to identifying the execution times of activities, also identifies the resources involved in each activity.
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7. Responsible
Every action must be assigned a responsible person who will be responsible for driving and achieving the objectives. Usually usually responsible for each department, specialized people with a high degree of commitment and results orientation.
In conclusion, these seven points will guide you to keep under control the performance of your company's activities, noting all irregularities of your goals and strategies in your CMI and correct them in time.