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Cascade Overview

What is Cascade?

Cascade is a global software company, consistently ranking as the world’s #1 strategy execution platform. At Cascade, we make visions happen by acting as the strategic brain of your organization, remediating the chaos of running your business so that you can move forward. Thousands of leading organizations leverage the Cascade platform to plan, execute, and track their strategies for realized performance and accelerated decision-making. Our customers are redefining the world–executing strategies that range from deploying life-saving vaccines to building the world’s fastest Formula One car. With Cascade at the helm, you’ll find it easy to: ✔Plan: Map your business to establish where you are today, helping you get where you want to go. ✔Execute: Connect the dots, creating a central view of your strategic progression with full context & visibility. ✔Track: Maximize your returns by reporting how your strategy contributes to your overall performance. Features you’ll love - ✔ Strategy Planner - Centralize your strategy to add structure and drive consistency. ✔ Metrics Library - Connect your business data directly to strategic focuses. ✔ Reports & Dashboards - Gauge an accurate picture of your strategic performance. ✔ Alignment & Relationships - Visualize how different plans interact & track dependencies. ✔ Team Management - Delegate ownership & set permissions. ✔ Integrations - Bring all of your information together under a single source of truth. Move your business forward today with Cascade. Book a demo or try it for free today: https://www.cascade.app/book-demo

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Product Description

Cascade is a complete software solution that makes it easy to turn your strategy into reality. Helping you to create your plan, engage your people and track results.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Cascade is the only platform built to span the entirety of your ecosystem to understand the relationships between your business inputs and outcomes. While other products focus on individual or team-based efforts, Cascade looks at the bigger picture. The platform allows you to connect the qualitative with the quantitative in your strategy--creating a holistic view of your performance and showcasing how your different business metrics, initiatives, and investments impact one another.


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Year Founded
2016
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Sydney
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Cascade is the world's #1 strategy execution platform helping thousands of organizations make their visions happen, through building their business and departmental plans, right through to tracking and execution of initiatives, team performance and more. Our customers are redefining the world as we know it - from battling the AIDS epidemic and establishing a supply chain for COVID-19 vaccines, to building the world’s fastest Formula One car.


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Recent Cascade Reviews

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5.0 out of 5
"The best in strategic planning software!"
Cascade is a fantastic strategic planning implementation software. It offers many of the features of a standard project management software, but wi...
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Amit S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great product and really helpful"
The alignment feature helps communicate the plan across the organization. Other features where you can have KPIs and plans are fabulous; they keep...
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Luciano M.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Software that helped us setup strategy and align the team around it!"
The UI, the dashboard overview, and the team alignment. It's ultra-easy to create and plan tasks and goals.
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Cascade Demo - Execution Hub. Get better visibility over the execution engine humming inside your organization.
A single view to see where all your dependencies, blockers, and risks lie across the organization. Defog your execution web to easily reallocate resources, eliminate unnecessary work, reprioritize initiatives, and accelerate progress.
Cascade Demo - Metrics Library. Get complete visibility into your business health.
Consolidate business metrics from different systems, tools, and spreadsheets on one platform. Connect your measures to important business metrics to see which initiatives are moving them forward and get complete visibility before you plan your next strategic move.
Cascade Demo - Strategy Dashboards. Run cross-department analysis to adapt in minutes.
Real-time dashboards for you teams to better understand which efforts you should quickly scale, adapt, optimize or stop.
Cascade Demo - Advanced Report Layouts. Your reports, the way you REALLY want them.
Reports that can be fully customized to support what the narrative requires in the most visual ways.
Cascade Demo - Cascade Planner. Make your planning cycles shorter and execution-focused.
Cascade’s planner brings structure and ease to building strategies by breaking them down into high-level objectives, business metrics they impact, and a series of initiatives, milestones, and programs that are executable and trackable.
Cascade Demo - Strategy Update Hub. Keep everyone updated and aligned to drive focus.
Let your team know how things have been progressing by posting updates on your measures, actions, objectives, or even about the work of entire teams. Keep all your stakeholders aligned, making sure everyone is working towards the same results.
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Customer Business Lead, Albertsons Companies
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What do you like best about Cascade?

Cascade makes moving from ideas to action easy. Execution is often overlooked by large strategy consultancies. Cascade puts execution at the heart of the focus Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

Nothing. The product has only improved over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cascade solving and how is that benefiting you?

Effective execution of strategy across org with easy tracking Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Director, Hypersonic Propulsion Strategy & BD
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Cascade?

Software is very intuitive and flexible. Gives my team great options for creating, updating, and maintaining strategic plans, goals, objectives, tasks, risks, etc. Collaboration tools within the software, along with a multitude of integrations, make keeping teams in the loop easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

So far, I haven't realized any drawbacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cascade solving and how is that benefiting you?

Biggest benefit is putting our strategic plan(s) in a clear, concise, visually stunning format that makes it easy to see progress and show our organization the "so what" of why we are undertaking the goals and objectives in the plan. It also provides a means to show our workforce how they fit into said strategies and allows us to tie individual goals to organizational goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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University Librarian
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What do you like best about Cascade?

Cascade is a thoughtfully designed tool to help an organisation plan its strategy and develop a workplan. The planning and technical support from Cascade are exceptional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

It can be easy to forget how to do things if you don't regularly update, which is why having support from Cascade is so important! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cascade:

Consider how it fits with your other practices/technical tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cascade solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Cascade to ensure that leadership team members are clear in what work they are responsible for and how this work contributes to the overall strategy. This has helped keep us on track and contributes to reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ryan R.
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Research and Analytics Manager
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What do you like best about Cascade?

Cascade helps everyone on our team see how their regular tasks relate to the organization's goals and strategies. Personal work boards, snapshots, and dashboards help keep people focused on what they need to do to help propel their team forward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

Goal tracking can take a little while to understand fully - but if you spend the time to learn it, the different methods of tracking goals are VERY helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cascade solving and how is that benefiting you?

A couple of the largest benefits we have seen is transparency between teams (in regards to team strategies) and easier collaboration between teams on goals that overlap. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

Can track, update, and report all in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

Currently there is nothing that I dislike about Cascade Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cascade solving and how is that benefiting you?

I've realised that by not tracking and updating our goals, the strategic plan was impossible to achieve Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Denis D.
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What do you like best about Cascade?

Visibility of strategy execution in a simple, clear and concise format.

Ability to create reports for the Board to showcase implementation and highlight areas of risk, achievement and celebration.

Easy to use dashboards for individuals and teams.

Sophisticated yet clear, easy reporting tools to aid C-level reports on strategy implementation.

Cascade enables everyone in your team with ownership of the strategy and business plans. Cascade empowers the team to implement through easy communications, ease of use, and regular individual input. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

We have yet to find a downside! Using Cascade Strategy did highlight areas for improvement within the design of our own strategy and annual business priorities.

We have a complex seven-year strategy when reviewing outside of Cascade. It has 11 high Level goals with 67 associated strategic objectives. There are over 200 priority actions and metrics. Cascade has highlighted areas of duplication or overlap. The dislikes that I have found are more to do with the issues in our Strategy which Cascade has highlighted and enabled us to put some structure around to assist us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cascade:

Perfection is the enemy of action. Get your strategy uploaded, a team of champions trained, and begin rolling it out. No organisation's strategy is perfect, and yours will not be perfect in Cascade. As your strategy or business plans evolve, Cascade has the ability to evolve with you. We spent too long at the outset trying to get our strategy 100% in Cascade which slowed rollout. Speed trumps perfection, as it will evolve and grow as your team being to get comfortable with the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cascade solving and how is that benefiting you?

We previously used various tools to report to the Board on strategy implementation, from word documents to 11-sheet excel documents. You could not see the wood from the trees. Cascade enabled clarity in quarterly board reports. Cascade provides confidence to management that implementation is progressing as planned. Cascade easily identifies risk areas for attention. Most importantly, Cascade empowers everyone in the team with individual workboards, input and visibility to see their contribution towards strategy achievement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

Easy and clean user interface. Very logical to follow how everything can be mapped out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

Not exactly a dislike, but it is another workplace collaboration tool to train colleagues on and introduces another step in their daily workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cascade solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're looking to have one central area and tool to track our strategic and growth initiatives and allow our teams to easily update on progress and results so our org can easily understand execution and thus value creation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

Cascade's tool to build your strategic plan/project and track the implementation and progress is robust, user-friendly, and exciting to use. They have an excellent support team that responds quickly to requests. They also assist us with finding the most efficient way to layout our strategic plan for optimal use of the product and tracking progress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

If you don't use both sides of the product (building the plan and tracking the project), it can be challenging to get a prebuilt plan into their system for proper tracking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cascade solving and how is that benefiting you?

Many organizations develop a strategic plan but do not have a way to track the implementation of the plan. This is a beautifully designed system (with regular updates to keep it current with ever-evolving technology) that, if used properly, can help any organization track its success in accomplishing its goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

Cascade has a user-friendly approach in both design and communication. The ease of use is welcome across all our associates, and their input is actually used to upgrade and further the experience. The organization takes a hands-on approach to educating our associates, and they have been more than flexible in accommodating our schedules, challenges, and barriers.

Cascade routinely identities ways to strengthen our working relationship and provide suggestions in our strategy implementation. We've had a lot of support from Cascade that other organizations in our system have adopted the platform. Simply put, they're dedicated, professional, and innovative. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

As a newer company, there is missing functionality in terms of smaller-scale project management, assignment, and tracking like Asana or another type of project-oriented platform. There are opportunities for improvement by designing a short-term approach that integrates with their longer-term design. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cascade solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our organization has found several opportunities to strengthen alignment across our health system. We're able to organize our organizational and system strategy and transform how others have historically disseminated the information.

The platform has also encouraged us to re-organize and integrate our data internally, which has helped us narrow our focus to key and priority metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Investment Director
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What do you like best about Cascade?

Flexibility - can make it as simple or as complex as you like; used by most key people in the organisation; once set up is super easy to use; helps us really think about our strategy and make sure everyone is on the same page; helps more junior staff members understand why what they are doing is incredibly important. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

It definitely requires a commitment of time/resources initially to get set up, but once you have everything in there its easy to manage on an ongoing basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cascade solving and how is that benefiting you?

Focusing on the tasks that matter the most (not the ones that are necessarily due right now); ensuring there isn't double up or gaps within the organisation in the work we are doing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.