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SAS and Balanced Scorecard Collaborative cooperate in European launch of Office of Strategy ManagementDrs. Kaplan and Norton welcome leading vendor’s expertise in programmeHEIDELBERG, GERMANY (Aug. 04, 2005) – Today SAS announced it would be supporting the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative’s (BSCol) newly formed European Office of Strategy Management (OSM) – an action learning community of peers to share best practices, identify the means for successful strategy execution, understand cross-functional processes, and develop specific strategy management competencies. Open to be supported only by certified BSCol software vendors, the OSM works with organizations at the leading edge of strategy execution who ‘practice what they preach’ – confirming how Balanced Scorecard Solutions and the software that empowers them are business critical on an enterprise-wide basis. “We are delighted to welcome SAS as sponsor to the OSM” says Gaelle Lamotte, managing director, BSCol Europe. “Anybody following the performance management disciplines over the last years has clearly seen the commitment SAS shows in this field, and observed the success it brings to its customers as a result”. Adds Randall H. Russell, director of research at BSCol: “SAS’s sponsorship will facilitate insight from a wider range of leading-edge customers on their journey to become Strategy-Focused Organizations.” David Schwerbrock, Vice President Finance for SAS International, comments “The Performance Management initiative is obviously of paramount importance not only to SAS internally, but one of the key areas we engage with our customers on. To confidently claim the leadership position we have in this space it is crucial that we always maintain the most progressive and strategy-focused capabilities embedded into our solution offerings. The Office of Strategy Management is an excellent way of ensuring these capabilities remain leading-edge, and at the same time able to deliver tangible results rapidly in real-world situations.” To learn more about SAS’ comprehensive suite of solutions for performance management, please visit http://www.sas.com/solutions/pm/index.html. About Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, Inc.Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, Inc. (BSCol), a Palladium company, is an education, training, consulting, research, and development organization that facilitates the worldwide awareness, use, enhancement, and integrity of the Balanced Scorecard as a value-added management process. Founded and led by the creators of the Balanced Scorecard concept, Drs. Robert Kaplan and David Norton, BSCol provides to organizations and individuals a global center of Balanced Scorecard excellence and expertise. BSCol’s web site is found at www.bscol.com.
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