The costumer perspective typically includes several common measures of the succesful putcomes from a well-formulated and implemented strategy : • Custumer satisfaction • Custumer retention • Custumer acuisition • Market share • Account share For example, companies as diverse as Southwest Airlines, Dell, WakMart, McDonald’s, and Toyota have been extremely successful by offering customers the best buy or lowest total cost in their categories. The objectives for a low total cost value preposition should emphasize attractive prices, excellent and consistent quality, short lead times, ease of purchase, and good selection. • A third type of value proposition stresses the provision of complete customer solutions. Good examples of companies successfully delivering this value proposition are IBM and Goldman Sachs. • A fourth generic strategy, called lock-in, arises when companies create high switching costs for their customers. Ideally, a proprietary product, ' such as a computer Operating system or microchip hardware architecture, becomes the standard for the industry. Internal perspective: value is created through internal business processes Internal processes accomplish two vital components of an organization’s strategy: - they produce and deliver the value preposition for customers, and - they improve processes and reduce costs for the productivity component in the financial perspective. We group organization myriad internal processes into four clusters • 1. Operations management processes • 2. Customer management processes • 3. Innovation processes • 4, Regulatory and social processes Operations management processes Operations management processes are the basic, day-to-day processes by which companies produce their existing products and services and deliver them to customers. Operations management processes of manufacturing companies include the following: • Acquire raw materials from suppliers • Convert raw materials to fmished goods • 1 Distribute fmished goods to customers • Manage risk Inovation processes Innovation Processes Innovation processes develop new products, processes, and services, often enabling the company to penetrate new markets and customer segments. Managing Innovation includes four sets of processes: Identify opportunities for new products and services Manage the research and development portfolio Design and develop the new products and services Bring the new products and services to market Regulatory and social processes Companies manage and report their regulatory and social performance along a number of critical dimensions: • Environment • Safety amd health • Employment practices • Community investment