About Scorecards

Build scorecards to monitor the overall performance of these objects:

Accountability elements such as departments, divisions, and task forces that represent the reporting hierarchy of your organization.
Strategy elements such as strategic objectives and critical processes that form levels of corporate strategy.
Employees

The objects for which you create scorecards are called subjects. Although scorecards are automatically created for strategy elements, accountability elements and employees, you can create multiple scorecards to evaluate different aspects of these objects.

You create a scorecard by adding and weighting the measures (dimensional and non-dimensional) and scorecards (for lower-level objects) that reflect the performance of a subject. Thus, you can include the performance of lower levels in your organization in scorecards that evaluate the performance of higher-levels. For example, a scorecard that monitors the performance of Net Profit could use related scorecards such as Sales and Internal Costs. The measures and scorecards you use to build scorecards are called components.

The results and scores of scorecard components produce an overall scorecard score that is represented by performance indicators. To evaluate performance using different criteria, you can use the following:

Multiple, secondary scorecards
Multiple ranges