Has anybody done the Delta/Signal Corp. case solution by Harvard Business School with a balanced scorecard? The case and simulation begin with a team of studentsacting in the role of a new CEO of a struggling automotive parts manufacturer. You will select among four firm strategies and then design a strategy map and balanced scorecard to assist in yourfirm's performance evaluation and strategy implementation approach. You will then spend the next eight game periods (four-game years) implementing yourchosen strategy. Note that each of the four strategies is designed to have an equal potential for success and that your performance will be independent of the choices made by other teams. Your primary job is not to look for the right strategy but to execute your chosen strategy to achieve the most favorable long-term outcomes.

You implement yourchosen strategy by choosing among many potential initiatives with the constraint being a limited financial budget. There are a wide variety of initiatives to choose from, all of which have worthy objectives for improving firm capabilities, serving customers, and/or improving financial performance. However, some initiatives are more effective at helping the firm achieve its objectives than others.

Successful companies will choose initiatives that are both consistent with their chosen strategy and effective. Your teamwill receive feedback on yourcompany's performance in the form of firm financial statements and scorecard metrics that include both financial and non-financial data.

Successful firms will use this feedback to evaluate the effectiveness of their initiative choices and adjust their chosen initiatives to optimize the implementation of their strategy. Performance evaluation is complicated by the fact that feedback measurements will vary based on several factors including the alignment between strategies and initiatives chosen and lags between the timing of investment spending and the ability to measure outcomes.

Upon completion of the eight turns, a private investment firm buys the equity of each company. The price paid in the buy-out transaction is based on the company's ending financial position and the investment firm's assessment of the company's future prospects as driven by the initiatives chosen.

The "winning" company will be the company with the highest buy-out transaction value.

Pleasesubmit 3 page paperthat explores your specific choices and why those choices were made.

Your company's financial performance, scorecard metric performance, buy-out value, and simulation experiences will be used to help identify benefits, challenges, and best practices for using scorecards.