Childhood was all about belonging to your group, the family. It was about learning the basic skills, like the language, and it was about trusting your leadership, your mom and your dad. Then there was puberty. This transition period was not without its controversies for most of us. And finally, you have now reached that adult period in your life where you live in mutually dependent coexistence with the people around you.
Groups move through the very same stages.
Then, there's a puberty stage where leadership is being challenged, and finally, either group members find a way of dividing roles and responsibilities that help them perform as a unity, or the group, as it is known, dissolves. The chances of a successful implementation at this stage is, therefore, a lot less probable. Introducing BSC in a mature and well functioning group where people trust and respect each other, and where there's a mutual understanding of interdependency, improves drastically the chances of scorecard success. This assumes, of course, that you're able to convince them that there's more to be achieved by introducing this new tool than leaving things as they are. This will be the real challenge at with these guys.