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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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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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2016
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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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"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.)
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"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.)
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"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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What do you like best about Cascade?

Cascade provides a truly comprehensive strategic planning & strategic management framework that met our organization at our current stage of development. Cascade's highly flexible ecosystem allowed us to design a dynamic, functional strategic planning framework that is completely custom built for our organization & that has more than enough space to allow our strategy to grow increasingly sophisticated as we achieve organizational objectives. Rebekah Komar, our Cascade rep, has provided warm & helpful service & support throughout our evaluation of the software & the additional support & responsiveness from the Cascade team has truly been world class. The suite of video & written resources offered on Cascade's website have been key in our development of an effective system. We look forward to our continúed partnership with Cascade as we strive to Heal Cancer One Night at a Time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

Truthfully, there is not a single negative comment I could make regarding my experience with Cascade. No system or company is perfect, but practically speaking Cascade has truly been excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our organization has been challenged to develop a living, breathing strategic planning framework that will drive long-term growth while ensuring critical functional & operational developments are front & center in the near-term. As a 100% volunteer driven organization, we are challenged to develop an operating model that allows for efficient & systematic development & management of our core business activities despite having limited human resources. We are challenged to eliminate the organizational friction that can prevent continued growth & development by ensuring the activities of our board members & volunteers are aligned with high-level organizational objectives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

Cascade is a fantastic strategic planning implementation software. It offers many of the features of a standard project management software, but with added features that support staying on track to implement and execute a business strategy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

Rather than paying for a full license, businesses pay per user. While this is ok for us (only our small leadership team needs to use the software) I can imagine it might be less cost effective for larger teams with multiple users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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It's affordable for a single user and offers a free trial period. It's worth a trial, and the support team is super helpful and will answer any questions or concerns promptly. We've had a great experience so far with it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Strategic plan and project implementation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

The Cascade platform is intuitive, customizable, flexible, visually appealing, has great reporting capabilities. The tool will be critical in facilitating the strategic planning process at our organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

There are very little to dislike. Our team only has minor update requests. Cascade is constantly making updates and enhancements to the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

To facilitate strategic thinking and conversations. The tool is a great platform for folks to visually see what our organization desires for strategic planning going forward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

The customer service we receive from the Cascade team is top notch. They are quick to understand our needs and ready to help with implementation, service and our annual needs as well. Our main contact is emphatic, smart and ready to help us anytime he can...really, Brandon is just amazing! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

Our only issue is user adaption, we are working to get our team more engaged in the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Tactical Plans & Monthly Dashboard reviews. Cascade helps us to stay connected Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

We have found Cascade very useful for combining our separate strategic plan document with our risk register, in one clean, slick, snapshot. This enables us to better report to the Board on our activities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

Adding new risks is a little cumbersome, but once you get the hang of it, its fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cascade helps us keep track of each senior managers objectives and how these fit in to the wider organisational goals. It has helped us narrow our focus on key strategic initiatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

The customer service. The customer success rep we were assigned has been excellent to partner with. He is responsive, constantly available and is generous with his time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

Although the scope of functionality is solid, there are a lot of little details and user experience things that could use a lot more polish. To Cascades credit they have been very responsive to the items we have reported and some small things have been implemented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cascade:

Make sure that the tool fits your strategic plan. Cascade from my perspective is better suited for executive, high level goal management involving measurable, tangible targets. This tool is less appropriate for doing granular project management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I work for the office of strategy management at a large healthcare organization, our goal is to use Cascade to manage our strategic roadmap priorities from a metric based outcome perspective. As of yet we have not gone live so we have not yet seen any benefits. Our anticipated benefits are a more streamlined status reporting process, and increased transparency and accountability for our stakeholders across the entire health system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

I love the ease of use and how it has simplified making our strategic plan come to life. The software is second to none in terms of accessibility and ease of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

I have not found a feature I dislike. I would like to see an integration of daily tasks with ASANA. I prefer to use ASANA for managing daily tasks and then use CASCADE to track longer-term goals and outcomes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cascade:

The ease of use means that you can truly begin immediately after onboarding. It is important to remember that you can use this software for so much more than strategic planning and to plan to move all of your planning documents to one place so that it is easier to track your progress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Strategic planning is difficult because I haven't been able to find a software that easily tracks progress and outcomes until now. Having one centralized place for strategic planning is absolutely critical to our long-term success. I also find that having one consistent platform to input ideas and vision items makes tracking my vision for the agency much easier. I don't have to take notes and then translate them later into a document. I can add them as concepts and build out from there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

Excellent tool with a good mixture of deep analysis and visually inspiring content. Seems equally at home as a C-Suite reporting tool or a great way to inspire those involved in the delivery of strategic programmes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

I've only just started using it and can't see anything as yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Delivery of a complicated web strategy for a huge estate -- it's neat and accessible in the face of complexity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

Great visualization, customizable while still being user friendly, can be as detailed as you like, has the ability to tie in with multiple different strategic planning methods (horizons, balanced scorecard, etc), and excellent customer support for setup and general questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

So far we haven't had many issues. Biggest issue we've encountered is tying sub-strategies to the overall strategy. That wasn't the smoothest but Cascade has been very helpful in trying to solve the issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cascade:

Overall Cascade is a very good system for us so far, I highly recommend using it for the strategic planning portions. We have not implemented the resource management piece so I can't comment on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Diversification of contracts, internal and external communications, and employee development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

We started using this tool recently and although we are not done uploading our complete strategy I totally see the benefits of using cascades to improve the day to day activities as well as the reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

It has proved rather challenging to get everyone onboard and get them used to actually using the tool at an ongoing basis, but I was told that is quite normal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cascades is helping us get more organized as our team is growing and ensures transparency and efficiency across departments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.