Balanced Scorecard

Biological Parallel

Elephants track herd health across multiple dimensions: hydration status (water access), caloric intake (foraging success), social cohesion (grooming frequency), and reproductive fitness (calf survival). The matriarch integrates these signals to make navigation decisions—no single metric suffices. A well-fed but dehydrated herd still dies; high caloric intake with low social cohesion leads to fragmentation. Balanced scorecards mirror how long-lived species avoid optimizing one dimension at fatal expense to others.