Balanced Scorecard

Q: What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Balanced Scorecard skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Balanced Scorecard is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Product category. Learn more at https://claudskills.com/learn/what-is-skill-md/.

Category: Product · Sub-category: product-misc · Last updated: 2026-06-17

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Use when building, reviewing, or applying a Balanced Scorecard for strategy execution and performance management: destination statement, strategy map, perspectives, strategic objectives, strategic readiness, measures/KPIs, targets, initiatives, owners, review cadence, cascading, and learning from performance gaps. Covers financial/stewardship, customer/stakeholder, internal process, and learning/growth or organizational-capacity perspectives, with sustainability/ESG embedded or added as a fifth perspective when strategic, and adaptation for business, nonprofit, public-sector, product, and transformation contexts. Do NOT use for upstream strategy formulation alone (use playing-to-win), quarterly goal-setting alone (use okrs), technical service thresholds (use performance-budgets), portfolio allocation (use bcg-matrix), generic internal/external factor inventory (use swot-tows), probability-weighted option valuation (use expected-value), or activity-level value/cost decomposition (use value-chain-analysis).

About this skill (catalog notes)

Balanced Scorecard includes explicit scope boundaries (an explicit 'when not to use' or 'out of scope' section); pricing or quota commentary; 11 code blocks for direct copy-paste. At roughly 7,724 words the SKILL.md is on the longer end of the catalog distribution.

Source: www.skills.sh/jacob-balslev/skills
License: CC-BY-4.0
Original author: jacob-balslev
Indexed lastmod: 2026-06-17
Catalog position: Product · product-misc
Indexed related skills: 10

How Balanced Scorecard fits the catalog

Balanced Scorecard sits in the Product category under the product-misc sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.

These notes are auto-generated from features detected in the SKILL.md file and from this catalog's structure — they aren't part of the source repository.

What this skill does

Balanced Scorecard is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the product-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/balanced-scorecard/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when building, reviewing, or applying a Balanced Scorecard for strategy execution and performance management: destination statement, strategy map, perspectives, strategic objectives, strategic readiness, measures/KPIs, targets, initiatives, owners, review cadence, cascading, and learning from performance gaps. Covers financial/stewardship, customer/stakeholder, internal process, and learning/growth or organizational-capacity perspectives, with sustainability/ESG embedded or added as a fifth perspective when strategic, and adaptation for business, nonprofit, public-sector, product, and transformation contexts.

Who uses this skill

The Balanced Scorecard Claude Code skill is built for product managers, product designers, and cross-functional teams planning, shipping, and measuring product features. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 138,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/balanced-scorecard
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/balanced-scorecard/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/balanced-scorecard/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/balanced-scorecard/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/balanced-scorecard/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\balanced-scorecard\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Balanced Scorecard Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/balanced-scorecard/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.

What does the Balanced Scorecard skill do?

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

When should I use the Balanced Scorecard skill?

Use Balanced Scorecard when your Claude Code task falls under the Product category — specifically in the product misc area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Balanced Scorecard" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/product/.

What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Balanced Scorecard skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Balanced Scorecard is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Product category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/jacob-balslev/skills/blob/HEAD/skills/reasoning-strategy/balanced-scorecard/SKILL.md
License: CC-BY-4.0
Author: jacob-balslev
Website: https://www.skills.sh/jacob-balslev/skills/

Cite this skill

If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:

APA

jacob-balslev. (2026). Balanced Scorecard [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/balanced-scorecard/

BibTeX

@misc{balanced-scorecard-2026,
  author    = {jacob-balslev},
  title     = {Balanced Scorecard [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/balanced-scorecard/}
}

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