Using balanced scorecard in educational organizations

The purpose of this article is Strategic Planning in Iranian educational organizations (especially schools). Although there are lots of problems in educational organizations, strategic planning is used rarely. The results of this article might be useful for managers of educational and related organizations, relating their internal processes to strategies and make them applicable. Using the BSC tool, the author shows how a Strategy Map is planned for educational organizations and how necessary data are gathered with interviews held with managers who had planned strategies for their organizations and who had not. In addition, the BSC abilities and flexibility – in comparison with other strategic planning models – to solve educational organization problems and increasing its effectiveness and efficiency, have been shown in the results.