Keynote Addresses

Drs. Kaplan and Norton, creators of the Balanced Scorecard, will introduce delegates to the Kaplan-Norton Strategy Management System™—a 6 stage process that effectively links strategy to operations by helping business leaders and strategy practitioners clarify their strategy, drive performance, and optimize data. The strategy gurus will kick off each day of the Summit with their insights and latest thinking on strategy and performance management and take part in an interactive session together, allowing Summit delegates the opportunity to ask questions, relate their own experiences, and challenge the experts.

Dr. Franck Schuurmans, Decision Strategies International, Inc. is an expert in strategic planning and executive decision-making. Dr. Schuurmans will help delegates understand how to frame complex issues appropriately and present a roadmap for making winning decisions every time, by alerting business leaders to common thinking traps and by offering practical remedies in this lively and engaging keynote. In addition, Franck will present scenario planning as a tool for improved decision-making under conditions of complexity and uncertainty to help business leaders identify risk and the steps necessary to mitigate risk as well as opportunities for profit.

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