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= Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame for Executing Strategy™ = The Balanced Scorecard as a strategy management framework was created by Drs. Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton in 1992 and originally shared through the Harvard Business Review article "The Balanced Scorecard - Measures that Drive Performance". The Palladium Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame for Executing Strategy™ was created to recognize and learn from successful cases of Balanced Scorecard-based strategy execution across the globe. It is considered the preeminent award for strategy execution.

History
In the year 2000, the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative (subsequently acquired by Palladium International) launched the Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame™ award program. The award was re-branded in the late 2000s to acknowledge the broader practice of strategy execution and the other critical approaches and process linkages needed to successfully execute strategy beyond the existence of a Balanced Scorecard within an organization. Harvard Business Publishing was a partner of the program from 2000 to 2012 as they promoted the program and published the case studies of the winners. Palladium continues to administrate the program and self-publishes more recent cases.

Criteria and Judging
The key criteria for winning the award is the best practice use of a Balanced Scorecard-based strategy management system and the achievement of industry-leading outcomes that suggest the strategy was both successfully formulated and executed. Drs. Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, creators of the Balanced Scorecard, served as the sole judges of the award through its 2015 application cycle.

Past Winners
Since the year 2000, over 200 organizations have been recognized. Organizations come from dozens of countries around the world and represent a wide variety of industries and organization types.

Learnings
Like any award, past performance is no guarantee of future success. Some Hall of Fame winners continue to be very successful many years after their Hall of Fame win. Others organizations have not seen their success continue either because subsequent strategies have not been right for the market or because strategy execution practices have eroded for one reason or another (e.g., leadership change, relaxed adherence to process).