Planning for Success© provides managers with four complementary techniques to help them develop a strong competency in measuring and reviewing progress:  
1
 Milestones - measuring how much planned activity has been completed  
2
 Measuring through hard metrics - developing appropriate measures for performance indicators and outcomes  
3
 Setting appropriate targets – reflecting past performance, improvement efforts and desired capabilities  
4
 High level scorecards - to separate the ‘vital few’ measures from the ‘trivial many’  
There are many balanced scorecard variants available. However, the only appropriate scorecard is the one that meets the needs of each individual management team. Planning for Success© allows managers quickly to understand how to construct scorecards that are:
  relevant to their needs
  aligned to organisational priorities
  practical in use
  effective tools for reviewing progress
  useful for communicating progress and priorities
  helpful in identifying and sharing best practices
  more likely to lead to success becoming the natural outcome
If measures are to be effective, they must be meaningful and useful. Above all, they must be appropriate, because
measures drive behaviour – a good thing if it is the right behaviour, but a very bad thing if those behaviours do not align
with the organisation’s priorities.