Highlights

Few people have contributed as significantly to the art and especially the science of business strategy as Robert Kaplan. His Balanced Scorecard is the premier tool for aligning a company’s current actions with its strategic goals. This performance management system helps business leaders clarify their corporate vision and align people, business units, and resources with a unified strategy.

In his research and writing, speaking and consulting, Robert develops ways to link cost and performance management systems to strategy implementation and operational excellence.

The BSC approach is also being successfully applied by governments and nonprofits throughout the world to improve transparency, governance, and measurable social outcomes.

Robert and coauthor David Norton have written five landmark books on TBS, describing how it works and outlining best practices for its implementation. His most recent book, The Execution Premium, helps business leaders successfully execute their business strategy for measurable benefits.
Together, these books have transformed the business strategy landscape and made Robert Kaplan one of the most valuable speakers in the fields of business strategy and leadership.

Robert Kaplan is Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and a former Dean of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University.

The Books

The Execution Premium
Describes a systematic and proven framework for achieving the financial results promised by your strategy—how to put it into action, test it and revise it for reliable returns.

The Balanced Scorecard:
Translating Strategy into Action
The seminal book on the tool that dozens of companies have embraced for achieving long-term growth. Winner of the 2001 Wildman Medal from the American Accounting Association for its impact on practice; in 22 languages.

The Strategy-Focused Organization
Describes how to make strategy a continuous process owned by everyone throughout the organization. Best international business book for 2000, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young.

Strategy Maps
Offers a powerful new visual tool for aligning processes, people and IT with desired outcomes. One of top 10 business books of 2004 by strategy+business magazine and amazon.com.

Alignment
Applies the Balanced Scorecard to corporate strategy, aligning business units (often poorlycoordinated) with headquarters’ long-term goals, using an Office of Strategic Management. Dr. Kaplan also co-developed Activity-Based Costing, a revolutionary approach to determining the underlying economics of a business, which he describes in his books Cost & Effect and, more recently, Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing.