Balanced Scorecards and Operational Dashboards with Microsoft Excel

The book is a great tool to find new perspectives in the generation of new format and displays for KPI's tables and sheet. It could be useful for intermediate and advanced Excel user. Specially, if you have read the Stephen Few's books, this is the appropiate book to read in order to apply the learning in Excel.

This an exceptional book for just about any level of Scorecard user, I found it to be both informative and a valuable reference resource. This alone would have gotten it five stars....BUT I personally felt the sections on operational dashboards detracted from a great book.If you need to know about dashboards Steven Few has some exceptional works out there.Again my personal feelings are that Ron Person's efforts would have been better spent focusing entirely on Balanced Scorecards.

After looking over some reviews and quickly glancing through a copy at a bookstore, I bought this book specifically to learn about PowerPivot and other Excel techniques that I could use to create efficient and effective management reporting (dashboards or otherwise). Considering myself an experience, intermediate level Excel user, I found the book more useful than I expected. Before getting into specifics about Excel for dashboards, the author, Ron Person, spends a great deal of time providing background on what makes a good scorecard, etc. -- a dashboard primer. He offers practical advice on the up-front work needed to create a good dashboard and potential pitfalls of not doing your homework.When it comes to Excel techniques, he takes great pains to illustrate simple constructs that can be carried out in several generations of Excel and / or points out what would need to be done to accomplish the same or similar. I was surprised at how many "general" Excel techniques I picked-up, including learning about functions I never thought I would use, like REPT (repetition of text) that I assumed was some esoteric text function. Being exposed to the CAMERA functionality (a tool I had never heard of before) was a revelation -- I don't know why this feature of Excel hasn't been more heavily promoted.Finally, he not only includes links to examples and test data that you can use to practice the techniques he covers, but he provides a generous compliment of links and references to other websites that either provide further information or complimentary material on such things as color palettes (choosing the right colors for dashboard elements).I know I will be referring back to this book often for additional tips and tricks to improve my capabilities with Excel.

Some excellent content, but Too much Excel 2003 & zero 2016

I do a great deal of Dashboard work n Excel and I highly recommend this book. The first several chapters cover the concepts of implementing Balanced Scorecards in a business which is great if that is your task. I'd not seen that subject treated else where to the same extent so this is a bonus to me. Moving on through the book there are numerous very useful and practical techniques to accomplish things in Excel 90% of the world is completely unaware of. If you realy want to improve your skills and WOW people, this book is a great knowledge enhancer for you. That and becoming familiar with several of the key websites for Excel Guru's will move you quickly toward being recognized for your skills in this arena. I purchased several copies of this book as gifts for some budding Excel guru's. I think you will be very pleased if your goal is to deepen your skills and presentation of data. Buy this book!

This has great information about the balanced scorecards and the approach and use of it. And oh yeah, how to create balanced scorecards in Excel too. Good book and well-written.

Great book and well presented

Great source for developing a balanced scorecard and dashboard. This book provides step by step guidance from strategy to execution.

Lo incluí en la serie selecta de mis libros: "Jack", The BSC (5), Kotler, Pragmatistas, Kopleston, Peters, etc.Inicié su lectura, exposición muy acertada y ágil.Gracias Amazon!

Good book 📚

Excellent seller and book

Not an easy topic to write about but the author has made it a readable and enjoyable tool. Good reference to Excel so if you are not proficient in using Excel to its full capacity, this book easily shows you how.

DeberIan mejorar tanto la visibilidad de los diagramas como los kpiTambién debería incorporar archivos descargarlos de control de gestion