Please complete both questions to the best of your ability. There is a 1,000 word limit for your submission in its entirety, which you are free to distribute across the questions as you wish. Please strictly adhere to this limit. Papers amounting to fewer words than the specified limit are allowed. Creative use of examples, anecdotes, hypotheticals, graphics, cartoons, pictures etc. to help you make your points is encouraged. Words that appear in quotes or in supporting materials like graphics, cartoons etc. will not be included in the word count. Please do not plagiarize. Please follow the format set out below
The Questions
1. Your boss has just asked you about our course and what went on in it. Please respond by discussing the main features of corporate performance systems, why they are necessary and important and provide an example of what can happen when they fail.
2. Your boss has just asked you about the balanced scorecard part of our course. Please respond by presenting in summary form the salient components of the balanced scorecard approach, highlighting how it is different from other strategic analyses and what it contributes that enables it to enhance corporate performance?