Strategic Performance Measurement Systems are being used in a wide number of organizations to support performance planning, measurement, and control. SPMS “are designed to present managers with financial and nonfinancial measures covering different perspectives which, in combination, provide a way of translating strategy into a coherent set of performance measures” [11, p. 396]. SPMS typically provide information on financial and nonfinancial performance measures in an effort to both report on past performance and help managers influence future performance. Financial measures assess the short-term impact of managerial decisions in areas such as revenue growth, asset
utilization, and cash flows [25, 42], while nonfinancial measures capture variables that are likely to influence future financial
performance, such as customer service and quality products. The
most popular form of SPMS is the balanced scorecard (BSC, first
proposed by Kaplan and Norton [24]).