Your answer was helpful Mr. Lawire, It's pretty clear to me now that 4G Balanced Scorecard is not actually replacing 3G Balanced Scorecard (advanced by 2GC) yet. I have noticed, like you said, some performance management (or BSC) consultants have been promoting their own versions of 4G BSC without strong theoretical and research backups. I have just began my interest in possible application of BSC at college and university almost nine months now (I am a college teacher myself). From my internet search I found that some universities in the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Australia have adopted BSC as performance management tool but most are still limited to departmental or (SBU) level only; very few have gone institutional-wide adoption of BSC. Besides these institutions were still using 1G or 2G Balanced Scorecard; I haven't come across any of them using 3G Balanced Scorecard yet. It seems to me that education industry sectors have not shown much enthusiasm in BSC application. I would like to hear your opinion on this matter. Also a friend of mine, a doctoral student, who is doing her doctoral dissertation on BSC application in academic department performance management in Thailand is still unable to decide if she should go for 3G or 4G Balanced Scorecard for her dissertation research. I recommended her to read papers from 2GC and compared compare them to those papers (if any) advanced by other consultants (mostly based in the UK, Australia, or North America). By the way, I have downloaded all 2GC papers and still reading them. I hope to be able to read more of 2GC papers. Paul

Your answer was helpful Mr. Lawire, It's pretty clear to me now that 4G Balanced Scorecard is not actually replacing 3G Balanced Scorecard (advanced by 2GC) yet. I have noticed, like you said, some performance management (or BSC) consultants have been promoting their own versions of 4G BSC without strong theoretical and research backups. I have just began my interest in possible application of BSC at college and university almost nine months now (I am a college teacher myself). From my internet search I found that some universities in the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Australia have adopted BSC as performance management tool but most are still limited to departmental or (SBU) level only; very few have gone institutional-wide adoption of BSC. Besides these institutions were still using 1G or 2G Balanced Scorecard; I haven't come across any of them using 3G Balanced Scorecard yet. It seems to me that education industry sectors have not shown much enthusiasm in BSC application. I would like to hear your opinion on this matter. Also a friend of mine, a doctoral student, who is doing her doctoral dissertation on BSC application in academic department performance management in Thailand is still unable to decide if she should go for 3G or 4G Balanced Scorecard for her dissertation research. I recommended her to read papers from 2GC and compared them to those papers (if any) advanced by other consultants (mostly based in the UK, Australia, or North America). By the way, I have downloaded all 2GC papers and still reading them. I hope to be able to read more of 2GC papers. Paul