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Understanding a Shift from Monolith Strategy to Architecture Based on Aligned Scorecards

Alexis Savkín
6 min readApr 10, 2023

As a response to the period of uncertainties and increasing complexity, organizations adapt their strategy-related workflows. Strategy architecture based on aligned strategy and function scorecards replaces monolith strategies. This change opens a possibility to distribute strategy work among more internal stakeholders. For the shift to be effective, strategy teams need to master value-based strategy decomposition and have access to a safe place for prototyping.

Strategy architecture based on aligned strategy scorecards replaces monolith strategies. Source: BSC Designer.

Shift Towards Architecture Based on Aligned Scorecards

In January 2023, BSC Designer conducted an internal analysis of over 8,000 users of strategic planning software represented by the individual strategy consultants and organizations diverse in their geographic location, size, and operating domain. The results of the analysis showed that

92% use an aligned strategy and functional scorecards architecture as opposed to a monolith architecture.

A similar analysis in 2019 showed only 64% of accounts use the aligned scorecard approach.

While the results of the analysis are obviously biased, as the dataset includes the organizations already automating their strategy description and execution, we can…

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Alexis Savkín
Alexis Savkín

Written by Alexis Savkín

Helping organizations create and execute better strategies. CEO at BSC Designer, author of the 10 Step KPI System. Visit bscdesigner.com for more articles.

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