Balanced scorecards in Empiraa GPS
A balanced scorecard that stays live all year.
Empiraa GPS runs your balanced scorecard as a live plan. The balanced scorecard measures strategy across four perspectives: financial, customer, internal process, and learning and growth. In GPS, every objective in each perspective has an owner, a target and dates, and progress is measured against where it should be today.
- Set up with your plan
- Unlimited users
- 30-day pilot
Why scorecards go stale
Most scorecards are rebuilt for each meeting, then left alone.
The framework is sound. The trouble is keeping dozens of measures current across four perspectives when they live in a spreadsheet.
What gets in the way
Numbers updated by hand
Someone chases every owner before each review, and the figures are already old.
Finance gets all the attention
Customer, process and people measures are the first to be skipped when time is short.
Measures without actions
A measure turns red, but nothing links it to the work that would fix it.
How it works
Four perspectives, one live plan.
Scorecards in GPS
Strategic objectives with owners
Each strategic objective becomes a goal with one accountable owner, and its measures sit beneath it as objectives with targets and dates. Tag each objective with its perspective to group them across goals.
- Financial, customer, process and learning and growth
- One accountable owner for each goal
- Targets, start dates and due dates
Every measure against pace
Each measure shows its current progress, where it should be today and the gap. Financial measures can map to your Xero accounts, and other systems can send values through the API.
- Current and expected progress
- Status across the whole scorecard
- Xero and API connections
Initiatives as owned actions
Link each initiative to the measure it moves, as an action with an owner, a due date and a priority, so a red measure always has work behind it.
Scorecard reviews from live data
Generate a board or strategy progress report for the period you choose. The board report reviews every goal with its measures, progress, expected progress, variance and owner, ready for you to edit.
What you get
Everything a scorecard review needs.
Scorecard features
Strategy on one page
Vision, core values, goals and objectives with live status, exportable to PDF.
See strategic planningTimeline
Every goal and measure across the year, against today.
See the timeline
ANI insights
ANI reads every measure and puts the ones that need action first.
See ANI in GPSCheck-ins
Owners share good news and blockers before each review.
See meetings and check-insImprovement Plan
Ideas from the whole business, for the learning and growth perspective and beyond.
See the Improvement PlanAccess by role
Set who sees what, and keep sensitive goals private.
Read about securityRollout
Live in weeks, with our team doing the heavy lifting.
Implementation and training are included in every plan, so your leaders spend their time on the strategy, not the software.
How a rollout runs
Load your scorecard
Your strategy becomes goals, objectives and actions, each with an owner.
Map owners and teams
We build your Accountability Chart and connect the systems you already run.
Set the rhythm
Check-ins and meetings for your leadership team, and training for your leaders.
First report from GPS
Your next leadership or board report comes straight out of GPS.
Start with the leadership team.
Run a 30-day pilot with one leadership team, using your real plan, before you roll GPS out further. We agree the pilot terms with you in the demo.
The language
How a balanced scorecard maps to GPS.
Keep the framework you know. GPS gives each part of it an owner and a live number.
Scorecard terms in GPS
| In a balanced scorecard | In Empiraa GPS |
|---|---|
| Perspective | A tag on each objective: financial, customer, internal process, or learning and growth |
| Strategic objective | Goal, with one accountable owner |
| Measure | Objective, with an owner and progress against pace |
| Target | The objective’s target, start date and due date |
| Initiative | Action, with an owner, a due date and a priority |
| Scorecard review | A report written from live data, edited by your team |
Who it’s for
For the leaders who own each perspective.
By role
Questions
Balanced scorecard questions, answered.
What is a balanced scorecard?
A balanced scorecard is a strategic performance framework that measures an organisation across four perspectives: financial, customer, internal process, and learning and growth, so leaders don’t manage on financial results alone. Read the full definition.
How do the four perspectives work in GPS?
Tag each objective with its perspective. Tags group related objectives across goals, so you can see every financial, customer, process or learning and growth measure together.
Can the scorecard go to the board?
Yes. Generate a board report from live data, then edit it, save versions, and export or email it. See board reporting.
Can financial measures update automatically?
Yes, where you connect your systems. The Xero integration maps measures to your accounts, and the API lets your own systems send new values. See the Xero integration.
Can we bring in the scorecard we already have?
Yes. Upload your current plan and GPS turns it into goals, objectives and actions, or our team loads it with you as part of implementation.
Can we try it first?
Yes. We run 30-day pilots with one leadership team, using your real plan. We agree the pilot terms with you in the demo. See how pricing and pilots work.
Question not answered here? Ask ANI and get a straight answer.
See your scorecard as a live plan.
Book a 15-minute demo and bring your current scorecard.