Implementing the BSC isn’t just about determining your strategic objectives, figuring out what measures you are going to use to track your progress, and the implementing the initiatives aligned to those objectives. 

It is about implementing the theory of your organization—the hypothesis implied by the investments you make to create or improve desired capabilities so that you can deliver results to your clients or customers.  Along the way, you have to continually tweak the theory, making course corrections as you move forward based on what you’ve learned and what you believe will occur. 

Three significant ways in which the BSC can help you better manage your organization’s strategy are:

1. Enabling data-based decision making
2. Setting and enforcing accountability
3. Structuring regular strategic discussions