Event in Review

Palladium’s annual North American Summit: Achieving the Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations held November 3-6, 2008 in San Diego brought together some 400 executives to learn how to more effectively link strategy and operations to achieve  an execution premium. Keynotes and session tracks focused around four themes: Developing and Translating the Strategy, Aligning the Organization, Linking Strategy to Operations, and Monitoring and Adapting the Strategy.

> Download a copy of the Executive Summary of the 2008 Palladium North American Summit sponsored by SAP

> Read the 2008 Palladium North American Summit Press Release

What Our Delegates Are Saying

"The North American Summit was simply a great experience for us."

- Karianne R. Holguin

Managing Director

Health Plan Process Administration

"You are to be congratulated on Palladium’s North American Summit. It was a great event all around."

- Ricardo Barrenechea

Senior Group Manager, Strategy and Business Development

Frito Lay

"This was an exceptional Summit. We were very impressed with the level of subject matter expertise and the quality of the content we were exposed to over the two days. It was a valuable educational experience from both a practitioner’s perspective and a strategic leadership point of view. Despite having 400 delegates, the attention your team gave us made us feel like we were the only ones there. It was extremely collaborative and professional."

- Aram R. Minnetian

President

Weichert Relocation Resources, Inc.

Master Class

The creators of the Balanced Scorecard, Drs. Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, conducted the event’s first ever Master Class that took delegates through each stage of their best practice management system, introduced in the January 2008 issue of Harvard Business Review. Participants had the unique experience to participate in interactive troubleshooting sessions with Drs. Kaplan and Norton during the class.

Hall of Fame Ceremony

Exemplars of strategy execution were honored at this year’s  Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame ceremony. Inductees included the Army & Air Force Exchange Service, the City of Corpus Christi, New Brunswick Power Group, and Weichert Relocation Resources, Inc.

> Read the Palladium Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame Press Release

The 2008 North American Summit Chairman was Robert Howie, managing director, Palladium Group, Inc. He has organized and chaired numerous executive business conferences around the world for more than 20 years. Mr. Howie was a co-founder and former President of Balanced Scorecard Collaborative. 

"Rob Howie is the consummate conference chairman, world class in organization and delivery, the best in the business. Rob's introductions and subsequent analyses of summit content are superb. In his session précis he shares what the audience should have heard had they been listening as carefully as him! I’ve had the privilege of working with Rob for more than a decade, and he is the undisputed master at what he does."

- Robert S. Kaplan
Baker Foundation Professor
Harvard Business School