Kaplan (Harvard Business School) and Norton (a management consultant) describe their Balanced Scorecard approach to creating and maintaining organizational alignment. A wealth of case studies reveal how real world companies have used this management system to ensure that all parts of their organizations are working in concert towards their strategic goals. Topics include (for example) leveraging financial synergies across a diverse corporate portfolio, and sharing common processes among units to gain economies of scale. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)