Scorecards for Results: A Guide for Developing a Library Balanced Scorecard

Joseph R. Matthews

Scorecards for Results: A Guide for Developing a Library Balanced Scorecard
Format
Paperback
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Country
United States
Published
30 June 2008
Pages
112
ISBN
9781591586982

Scorecards for Results: A Guide for Developing a Library Balanced Scorecard

Joseph R. Matthews

Baseball fans have long appreciated the value of keeping a scorecard, both as a record of the game and a predictor of future outcomes. What if we told you the same principle works for libraries?

The Balanced Scorecard is a performance measurement tool first popularized by Robert Kaplan and David Norton (who also penned the foreword to this book) in a 1993 Harvard Business Review article. It involves matching a variety of measures with one or more expected values-from each of four perspectives (financial, customer, internal process, and organizational readiness)-tracking results, and analyzing any variance between them. As in baseball, organizations come away with both a snapshot of the present and a sense of where they are headed.

Evaluation expert Joe Matthews has taken this basic model and, in six carefully illustrated steps, shows how any public library, regardless of size, can more effectively focus its resources, assess strategic impact, and in so doing better serve its community.

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