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Having Trouble with Your Strategy? Then Map It (Spanish version)
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Reference: HBS-R00509
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Year: 2001
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Number of pages: 10
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Geographic Setting: Vietnam
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Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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Fecha de edición: May 27, 2003
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Source: HBSP (USA)
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Type of Document: Article
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Industry Setting: Sugars & sweeteners;Food
Description
a workforce needs clear and detailed information to execute a business strategy successfully. Authors Robert Kaplan and David Norton, cocreators of the balanced scorecard, have adapted that seminal tool to create strategy maps. Strategy maps let an organization describe and illustrate--in clear and general language--its objectives, initiatives, targets markets, performance measures, and the links between all the pieces of its strategy. Using Mobil North American Marketing and Refining Company as an example, Kaplan and Norton walk through the creation of a strategy map and its four distinct regions--financial, customer, internal process, and learning and growth--which correspond to the four perspectives of the balanced scorecard. The authors show how the Mobil division used the map to transform itself from a centrally controlled manufacturer of commodity products to a decentralized, customer-driven organization.