Dr. David P. Norton is co-author, with Dr. Robert S Kaplan, of The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage, his fifth Balanced Scorecard book. His previous books with Kaplan include Alignment, Strategy Maps, named as one of the top ten business books of 2004 by Strategy & Business and amazon.com, The Strategy-Focused Organization, named by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young as the best international business book for year 2000, and The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action, which has been translated into 22 languages and won the 2001 Wildman Medal from the American Accounting Association for its impact on practice.
Norton is the co-founder and president of Palladium Group. Prior to his career at Palladium, Dr. Norton co-founded and served as president and CEO of Balanced Scorecard Collaborative. He was also president of Renaissance Solutions, Inc., a Balanced Scorecard consulting firm. Prior to that he was the co-founder and president of Nolan, Norton & Company, where he spent 17 years as president.
He is a Trustee of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a former Director of ACME (the Association of Consulting and Management Engineers).