Strategy Mapping for Learning Organizations

Phil Jones has helped organizations improve how they manage strategy and performance in the UK, Europe, US and Far East, including organizations in sectors as diverse as Banking, Charities, Manufacturing, Local Government, Utilities, Social Care, Retail, Health, Defence and Professional Services. They have ranged from start-ups to multi-national listed organizations. Phil is a consultant, author and speaker on strategy, performance and behaviour in organisations. He worked for Norton & Kaplan (authors of the original balanced scorecard books) for over four years and now runs his own research based consultancy, Excitant Ltd.

• I: Strategy and Strategy Management; 1: The Benefits and Principles of Strategy Mapping; 2: Managing Strategy: A Context of Governance, Strategy and Learning; 3: Capturing Strategy and Change in Strategy Maps; II: The Organization's Context; 4: Exploring the Organization's Context and Value Chain; 5: Future Thinking: Your Strategy and the Tangible Future; III: Overall Design; 6: Strategic Themes; 7: Designing the Cascade of Strategy Maps; IV: Detailed Design; 8: The Questions to Ask when Developing your Strategy Map; 9: Objectives before Measures; V: Detailing the Perspectives; 10: The Customer Perspective and Customer Objectives; 11: The Financial Perspective and Financial Objectives; 12: The Environmental and Social Impact Perspective; 13: The Process Perspective and Process Objectives; 14: The Learning and Growth Perspective and Objectives; 15: The Organizational Values Perspective; 16: The External Perspective; VI: Alignment; 17: Aligning Programmes, Projects and Investments in Change; 18: Aligning Budgets and the Budgeting Process in a Learning Organization; 19: Representing and Managing Risks in Strategy Maps and Balanced Scorecards; VII: Communication and Use; 20: Telling the Story of your Strategy; 21: Managing with your Strategy Map and Revising your Strategy Map

’This book is a "drivers manual" for anyone who is implementing a Balanced Scorecard performance management system. Whether you drive on the left or the right, it is required reading.’ From the Foreword by David P. Norton, author of The Balanced Scorecard