The ESM team is pleased to officially announce the forthcoming ESM 5.0 Beta release in Q1 2009. Thank you to all the past and present clients over the past 8 years for your feedback on how to make the ESM as user friendly and effective as a meeting mangement solution as possible.

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Did you know that the ESM can automatically evaluate the performance of your measures?

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The ESM is the only application that has the core meeting view interface to present the right level of strategic information to leadership. At the end of the day effective strategic decision making is at the heart of what organizations are trying to achieve. In our new 5.0 release, we are really expanding on the features of Meeting View and making the entire application just as meeting friendly. Although the release dates have yet to be finalized, expect a beta version of ESM 5.0 late this year and the full release in early 2009. Find a partial list of the new 5.0 enhancements after the jump.

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The ESM team is working hard to make best practice guidance, advice, and training available to ESM users right in the ESM application.

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Palladium Announces XPA™--Execution Premium Assessment--based on the Kaplan-Norton Strategic Management System

New Tool and Book Based on Close Collaboration between Palladium, Kaplan, and Norton

Palladium Group Inc., the global market leader helping organizations execute their strategies, has announced the Execution Premium Assessment (XPA), the newest offering designed to help companies understand the strategic performance gap between where they are and where they want to be. XPA, the latest tool in an integrated suite from Palladium, is based on more than fifteen years of research by Drs. Robert Kaplan and David Norton, the world's preeminent authorities on strategic performance management, and the best practices of more than 100 high performing organizations.

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Performance is big to us. We're constantly striving to enhance the performance of the application in any way that we can, because we know how frustrating it can be trying to use a slow website. That's why we were so excited to finally be perusing a partnership with Akamai to help deliver our application to the far reaches of the globe. Don't get me wrong, we've always had very good performance and very good global coverage, but there are a few spots around the world that saw excessive latency and delays that were out of our control.

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I recently came across a case study, published just last month, titled "Information System Effects on Organizations Balanced Scorecard Work". This study was focused exclusively on the ESM application – something our team believes to be the first of its kind!

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The Executive Strategy Manager is on the cusp of another enhancement stage or transformation. As Drs. Kaplan and Norton's position on the integration of key process management with strategy evolves, the ESM is there to incorporate the necessary functionality to ensure our users are effectively managing and executing their strategy.

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The Executive Strategy Manager will soon be home to a completely refreshed list of objectives and measures from which our users will be able to sort by both perspective and industry (and sometimes function) to get a list of potentials for their own scorecard.

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I've recently returned from my 5th trip to a new client to help roll out a massive cascaded BSC project. As a billion-dollar entertainment empire, they've got stores, restaurants, hotels, and casinos. Being just your run-of-the-mill developer, I don't normally get first-hand experience with the way that BSC implementations are done, but I have to say, this one is quite fascinating.

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