Frameworks are business methodologies that identify the importance of business areas, called perspectives, such as finance and customer relations. Frameworks help you define your business strategy based on time-honored perspectives that provide a Competitive advantage. Widely used frameworks include the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative framework and the Stern Stewart Integrated EVA framework
Frameworks enable you to perform these tasks:
Identify the primary areas in your organization such as information and analysis.
Group measures that monitor the performance and health of perspectives.
For example, organizations in the banking industry might assign these measures that track customer data in the Customer perspective:
Identify the types of strategy and accountability elements you use to build maps.