41 Cascade Testimonials

“Cascade is a single point of ownership for our people, where they can see absolutely everything relating to their role.”

“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.”

"Cascade Strategy Execution SaaS takes the complex area of generating accountability around strategic initiatives and makes it clear, concise, and transparent. The thought that has been put into the structure of getting it set up essentially forces you to consider the alignment of your goals, objectives, focus areas and ultimately vision. Cascade is one of the few that gets that the fundamental unit of strategy implementation is NOT individual goals or tasks it is people, and Cascade re-emphasizes this point subtly throughout the platform."

"The university is a very large and complex organization and it's really a federated structure. Top down control alone doesn't work here. People need to be able to collaborate and enjoy some local empowerment. Linked with information and visibility across teams, Cascade gave them the information and opportunity to drive that collaboration."

"I really love the dashboards. For me, I'm quite a visual person and I love visual representations. The system gets its name from the notion that strategy Cascades from a high organization down to functional units and various strategic areas and projects. It makes it very easy to navigate the strategy because of the logical way that it is all structured. The setup time was fairly minimal; the time it takes for new people to learn how to use the system is negligible; it's very simple and straightforward. It's just great to finally have that representation of the linkage between the university strategy, the library strategy and all the projects and tasks that we're working on."

"Cascade provides an excellent eco-system which enables multiple stakeholders within our company to collaborate in developing and managing a strategic plan. It's visual and does away with spreadsheets. It ensures clarity and ongoing alignment. Very powerful and flexible. Excellent support."

"Cascade is easy to use and administer. The new enhanced Project Management tool has allowed us to get rid of our old tool and are now using Cascade to manage our projects. The reporting features are dynamic and help everyone in the organization understand where they fit in the "big picture" as they align their daily activities with the organization's high-level goals and vision."

“Before implementing Cascade, the placement of our goals was all over the place!”

"The ability to see a simple, graphic layout [of] our strategic initiatives, who's working on them, what is the expected date of completion and what is their current progress. As a manager, Cascade makes it easy for me to stay on top of strategic initiatives so that they get done. Being a big company, we really exploit the ability to have different plans. Each area has its leader and that leader is in charge of his own plan. This helps us to independently view the work of different teams under the same layout."

"As an NFP with limited resources and huge passion, it's sometimes difficult to make sure we stay on track with the big picture while juggling many balls in the air at once. Cascade offers us the perfect tool to record and track our progress throughout the year. We love that we can assign tasks across our organisation's business areas to individual staff and volunteers."

“We’re strengthening our ability to prioritize and make strategic decisions. The right decisions can be made more quickly now.”

“Cascade has really helped us refine the way we approach strategy—we are able to adapt and refocus our goals and priorities based on the insightful staff updates we review each quarter. As a result, we have developed a more unified vision of the impact we aim to achieve through our mission-driven work."

“It’s so important to ensure that strategic planning, goal tracking, and reporting are as straightforward and frictionless as possible. And Cascade helped us achieve that.”

“Cascade keeps us focused on strategy, so we're not wasting time on things that aren't valuable to our business.”