Palladium's Dr. David Norton and Dr. Robert Kaplan Are Honored by American Society for Training and Development

Business Wire,  June 4, 2008  

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Named Recipients of the 'Champion of Workplace Learning and Performance Award.'

LINCOLN, Mass. -- Palladium Group, Inc., the leading professional services firm helping clients execute their strategies, today announced that Dr. David P. Norton, Director of Palladium and Co-founder of Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, and Dr. Robert S. Kaplan, Chairman of Professional Practice at Palladium and Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, were named recipients of the prestigious Champion of Workplace Learning and Performance Award at the annual awards ceremony during the 2008 ASTD (American Society for Training and Development) International Conference and Exposition.

The award was presented to Drs. Norton and Kaplan in recognition of their advocacy in support of learning and performance in the workplace. ASTD honored them by stating how their work on strategy execution and the Balanced Scorecard has had a "substantial and sustained impact on learning organizations." The Society further asserted that "the scorecard recognize[s] that learning is critical to creating breakthrough performance and is the essential foundation for success of knowledge-worker organizations." Norton and Kaplan were also cited "for providing an approach which focuses on measuring the outputs of learning and quantifies the value of learning to business, and, for helping to increase the credibility of learning in organizations by making it more measurable and therefore, more clearly relevant to performance."

Drs. Norton and Kaplan have authored eight Harvard Business Review (HBR) articles and four books: The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy Into Action (1996), The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment (2001), Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes (2004), and Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies (2006).

About ASTD

ASTD (American Society for Training & Development) is the world's largest association dedicated to workplace learning and performance professionals. Members come from more than 100 countries and connect locally in 136 U.S. Chapters and 25 Global Networks. For more information, visit www.astd.org

About Palladium Group, Inc.

Palladium Group, Inc. helps its clients achieve an execution premium by linking strategy and operations, enabling mission critical links with timely, robust information and data. Palladium has 18 offices worldwide and an additional 17 affiliate offices throughout North America, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. With over 700 clients worldwide, organizations turn to Palladium to improve the execution of their strategies. Our expertise in strategy, finance, and IT includes advisory, assessment, consulting, and technology services. Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, Palladium's conference, training, and certification division manages the Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame for Executing Strategy[TM] program. For more information, please visit www.thepalladiumgroup.com

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