Balanced Scorecard Designer

Creating and managing Balanced Scorecards or Key Performance Indicator (KPI) groups.

Why use BSC Designer

• BSC Designer helps to improve business performance by applying Balanced Scorecard concept;
• Balanced Scorecard concept is used by more than 50% of Fortune companies;
• CEOs and top-managers use BSC Designer to measure and improve business productivity.

Balanced Scorecard Designer (BSC Designer) is a great software that simplifies the process of creating and managing Balanced Scorecards or KPI groups. With BSC Designer you will be able to create any set of key performance indicators, define relationships between groups, goals, and specify the importance of indicators. BSC Designer will calculate the total performance value and will provide you with report in MS Excel.

Balanced Scorecard Designer has a plain, easy to use interface, which provides user with:

• Possibility to create scorecard, e.g. create categories, goals;
• Balancing function, e.g. lets user specify relative weights;
• Time Points, allows to specify weight, scorecard, mix/max and other values specific for certain date.
• Ability to connect several scorecards into one using data obtained from the web or local network. Or import information using SQL indicators.
• Performance measurement and calculation functions, e.g. calculates the performance within category and total performance;
• Results of work can be exported into easy readable html report with charts.

The results of design can be saved into BSC native format (.bsc file type) or exported to MS Excel for further usage. Export feature is very important as Balanced Scorecard exported to MS Excel can be used to connect the data from company ERP system with performance measurement. Starting version 1.3 exporting is also available with command line interface.

Balanced Scorecard Designer functions in details

When you will run the Balanced Scorecard Designer the default project will be opened. You will be able to start with design process immediately.

Using toolbar buttons, you will be able to add more categories and goals, move items or run balancing function. Also, with tool bar "Report" button you will be able to export results into MS Excel file.

The special toolbar was designed to manage with time points. With time points user can specify different performance and weight values for different dates.

In Balanced Scorecard Designer you will work with strategy tree. The strategy tree includes:

• Root element. It has the same name as your Balanced Scorecard project. If you need to change project name, please, choose "Properties" option in File menu.
• Category elements. These elements are containers for goal elements.
• Goal element, also called metric or performance indicator, is an item with name (for instance "Response Time"), relative weights on 1..10 scale and optimization direction.

You can click on any item (Category or Goal) and you will see the information about this item below. The information includes:

• The name of category or goal;
• The relative weight of category or goal;
• The description of category or goal;

Please, note: you can change the values right now and the changes will be immediately processed and shown at strategy tree. BSC Designer will recalculate the performance values. 

What is difference between standard and pro versions

In comparison to Standard version, Professional version has the following features:

- Selected and Overview Report Types
- SQL indicators; Import and Export to/from BSC file
- Imported indicators
- Strategy maps
- Custom formulas

One of many positive testimonials

"We find BSC designer a very ergonomic and intuitive tool. It quickly adapts to your way to carry out the information analysis. It is simple, fast and effective. It avoid using and maintaining home-made Excel sheets and produce professional results".

Emmanuel Jaunart, founder of Mielabelo (Belgium)

System Requirements

Windows XP/2000/2003 or later.

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