Abstract
Elements associated with modern approaches towards public management have been gain:ing ground in various forms in the Czech public administration, especially in the last decade. They reflect the priorities of the public administration reform and the enhanced opportunities for co-financing the implementation of new management tools from European fund's.
This article summarizes the experience of Strategic management, based on the analysis of secondary sources and on the experience of one of the authors who has worked as manager in several public administration/public sector institutions. In the practical part, the article focuses on the potential and limits of implementation Of the Balanced Scorecard using the practical experience together with the implementation of this,instruthent at the level of city and ministry.