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About the Summit

The Palladium 2010 Americas Summit, now celebrating its 13th year, will equip and empower organizations to emerge from the current global recession to become stronger, more agile, and ready to compete in today’s economic environment. Business leaders and strategy practitioners will gain insight into the latest management thinking on how organizations can achieve focus and control in a challenging new economy by adopting a proven management system that links strategy to operations effectively to realize sustainable business performance.

Drs. Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, creators of the Balanced Scorecard, are the acknowledged world experts in executing strategy to achieve lasting business results. They will be joined on the Summit platform by business leaders who have made a significant impact on their organization’s strategy execution and business performance from leading public and private organizations from across the Americas. Case studies, industry expert insights, and best practice experiences will inspire delegates and provide a prescriptive approach in applying frameworks and strategies for creating competitive advantage to emerge as winners, which leading organizations have found invaluable during difficult times.

The Palladium 2010 Americas Summit is the pinnacle of Palladium’s executive education and networking events and is the single most prestigious annual gathering of business leaders and strategy management practitioners from across the Americas.

Customized Learning Experience

Build on the core 2-Day Summit agenda to customize your own program. The 2-Day Summit includes case studies and best practices of the Kaplan-Norton Strategy Management System, break-out sessions, keynotes, peer-to-peer networking, 1:1 consulting opportunities with strategy and performance experts, and the 13^th Annual Hall of Fame Awards Ceremony which recognizes those companies that have demonstrated breakthrough performance and achieved an “execution premium”--the measureable value of executing their strategy and achieving goals.

Add the War Game Workshop which demonstrates how war games work and their powerful ability to reveal strategic opportunities for management. Add Beyond the Balanced Scorecard Workshop to roll up your sleeves and apply what you have just learned in theory and case examples by using the tools of the trade through learning exercises facilitated by an expert strategy and business performance trainer.

Summit Themes & Topics

Core Summit Program:

Theme 1: Leading the Organization: Clarifying the Strategy

The New Management System: An Evolutionary Process Creating Competitive Advantage

Defining the Strategy: Measures, Maps, and Themes

Developing the Strategy: Mission, Vision, and Values

Integrating Risk into the Strategic Plan

Modeling Approaches: Planning Gap, Driver Models, and Scenario Planning

Leadership’s Role in Integrating the Strategy Management Process

Theme 2: Driving Performance: Creating Alignment and Linking to Operations

Connecting the Dots: Linking Strategy and Operations

Operationalizing Strategic Goals: Financial, Sales, and Capacity Planning

Aligning Organizations and People to the Strategy

Aligning Customers and Partners to the Strategy

Creating an Enterprise-wide Strategic Platform

Championing Change: Leadership’s Role

Theme 3: Optimizing Data: Learning and Adapting for Better Decision-Making

The Feedback Loop: Optimizing Data and Making Better Decisions

Effective Operational and Strategy Review Meetings

Managing the Process – The Role of the Office of Strategy Management

Statistical Testing of the Strategy

Reporting & Monitoring: Dashboards, Scorecards, and Portals

Adapting the Strategy: Correcting Course with Decision-Based Analytics

The Palladium 2010 Americas Summit is your opportunity to:

Experience an exclusive opportunity to participate in an interactive War Game session designed to immerse you in a live simulation reflecting the real industrial world to act out your strategy.

Learn about the closed-loop management system that links strategy and operations to achieve an Execution Premium and breakthrough performance.

Benefit from case studies by leading organizations and learn from their experience on best practices and pitfalls in strategy execution.

Engage in one-on-one meetings with subject matter experts in every stage of the strategy management process.

Translate what you learn into actionable plans through hands-on skills building workshops.