Strategic management and evaluation of performance and compliance with company strategy will certainly require use of specialized tools to gather, analyze and summarize information. Today, businesses use a variety of various tools, systems and approaches to evaluation of performance and assessment of strategic goals implementation. Yet, there is one framework that gained an exceptional popularity – Balanced Scorecard. AKS-Labs is proud to offer managers, consultants and business experts an exceptionally efficient and user friendly software – BSC Designer.

The application itself has four versions. Sure, Professional version is recommended for managers who are serious about BSC implementation, as well as consultants. Standard version keeps basic features that will make it possible to create and manage scorecards, as well as generate performance evaluation reports. Light version or free balanced scorecard solution is a tool that is often used for introduction of BSC to personnel, learning the basics of this framework created by Norton and Kaplan in the 1990s.

The software has an attractive and simple GUI, so even inexperienced users will face no problems with running the app. Besides, all users may easily contact customer support team that will resolve problems and answer questions asap. Professional version offers a variety of features for collective usage, for example, integration with other apps, sql support, lots of various report types available, tools to import and export data, strategy visualization tools etc. BSC Designer can be used both in small organizations and big companies. Teamwork with the software is facilitated through use of cascading scorecard. So, it is possible to create a higher level scorecard and lower level projects that will feed data, while lower level employees will be responsible for data collection and input.

AKS-Labs also offers free and paid BSC trainings that will help users with Balanced Scorecard implementation on various stages. Beginners will learn how to get started while seasoned managers may learn a few secrets of cascading scorecards. Trainings come in mp3 files and pdf and ppt documents.

Sure, BSC implementation is useless without use of the right metrics. In other words, it is imperative to evaluate the right measures, otherwise such an evaluation will cause only financial losses. The company offers sets of KPIs designed and selected for various business areas, from agriculture to IT business. Such metrics packages are available as Excel spreadsheets and bsc files. It is easy to browse packages and look for the one you need, for human resource metrics which will be helpful for HR departments of bug companies investing money in HR campaigns and willing to optimize their HR performance.

The good news is that all products are available in a trial mode (30 days for software, and restrictions of features for non-software products).

About the company:

AKS-Labs is a software developing company that specializes in solutions for business, namely Balanced Scorecard and business intelligence products. Customers of the company are well known and successful companies from across the world - http://www.bscdesigner.com/