Talk:Balanced scorecard

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I think one of the redirected links that brings you here is typed wrong. It leaves of the letter "d" in the word "Balanced". Even the article is named "Balanced Scorecard". Searching for "Balanced Score Card" does not bring you here directly. Instead you have to find "Balance Score Card". If someone does not type "scorecard" as one word, they may miss this article.

There is nothing mentioned about Hoshin Kanri. A link to a whole article on Hoshin Kanri would be nice.

The first two paragraphs are taken almost verbatim from http://www.balancedscorecard.org/basics/bsc1.html: one word has been changed, and the order of the paragraphs switched. --194.73.107.129 13:52, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I agree and have removed them adding a link to the site you have identified - thank you--Andrew Gardner 16:04, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Arthur M. Schneiderman

Could someone give me a quotable reference, that the BSC was first developed by A.M. Schneiderman? I could only find not-quotable ppt and pdf on his website. I'm currently working on my masters thesis about the BSC. Kaplan/Norton are claiming that the BSC is their "child". Thanks a lot!!!

Does this help? http://www.schneiderman.com/Concepts/The_First_Balanced_Scorecard/Excerps/KN_quotes/Excerpts%20from%20KN/KN96_2.jpg

It is a letter from Kaplan.

[edit] Software vendors

I have re-ordered the list of companies in the Software Tools section to be alphabetical. I know that puts my company first (at the moment) but I couldn't think of any other way to avoid disputes about what the order should be. --Matthew C. Clarke 01:33, 2 February 2007 (UTC) Do we need a list of vendors at all - doesn't it make the article nothing more than an advert? --Andrew Gardner 09:03, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm new to Wikipedia etiquette, but I would think that an article such as this is incomplete without a list of examples of how the methodology is implemented. But if that is contrary to the practice in other parts of Wikipedia, fine. --Matthew C. Clarke 22:09, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deleting Mike Cline Contributions

I am deleting or reverting any contributions I have previously made to this article for the following reason. I work for a company that practices and teaches Strategic Planning methodologies thus making my contribution to any article related to Strategy topics a conflict of interest an in violation of Wikipedia Conflict of Interest guidelines WP:COI --Mike Cline 13:19, 4 February 2007 (UTC)