Cascade for education

Strategic Planning & Execution Software for Higher Education

Join the most innovative colleges and universities in aligning key priorities to day-to-day projects with Cascade.
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Trusted by Leading Education Institutions Worldwide

Why Your Institution
Needs Cascade

Higher education institutions are under constant pressure to
perform, adapt, and do more with less. But outdated processes
and fragmented strategies make it harder to drive real impact.

Fragmented Strategies
Faculties and departments operate in silos with their own systems, making collaboration and alignment difficult.
Lack of Visibility
& Clarity
Institutional goals exist, but turning them into measurable steps for faculties and departments is a challenge.
Limited Time
for Strategy
Faculty and administrators juggle teaching and operations, leaving little capacity to focus on strategy.
Inefficient  
Reporting
Multiple strategies, reporting structures, and timelines make it difficult for leadership to access timely insights.

Cascade brings everything into one platform—aligning priorities, tracking progress,and ensuring execution.

One strategy. One platform. One source of truth.

Strategic Planning

Plan your way, and turn chaos into clarity.

Ditch scattered documents and spreadsheets. Build a structured, living strategy that adapts as priorities evolve.
Connect your entire institution to a shared strategy, align faculties, departments, and staff with clear objectives.
Shatter silos by linking academic, research, and operational priorities into a single, actionable plan.
Break down large-scale institutional goals into measurable actions that faculty and staff can execute.
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Strategic Execution

Ensure Execution Across Faculties & Departments

Give every team visibility into their role in delivering on the university’s strategic priorities with clear KPIs.
Ensure every initiative has a clear owner. Faculty, administrators, and teams always know what to prioritize.
Set smart, measurable goals that automatically update, so execution stays on track.
Track ongoing initiatives effortlessly. See what’s in progress, what’s lagging, and what’s completed.

Strategic Tracking

Measure Success & Meet Accreditation Standards

Know what’s working and fix what isn’t, eliminate guesswork with real-time insights.
Automate reporting for leadership, accreditation, and board reviews—no more manual updates.
Run faculty and admin meetings with live data, ensuring decisions are always informed.
Visualize risks and misalignment before they disrupt progress, keeping strategy execution on course.
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The big shift is everyone structured, with information in one place.

The single biggest benefit that Cascade brought to the University of Sydney, was cohesion and structure to the myriad of strategic work and project management taking place.
Katy McEwen
Strategy Advisor
Cascade Advanced Integrations

Connect the tools that power your institution

Connect faculty, administration, and leadership by syncing your institution’s existing tools into a single platform—ensuring alignment and smarter, faster decisions at every level.

Less chaos, more visibility, faster results.

#1 Rated Strategy Execution Platform
Less chaos. Better Decisions. Faster Results.
FAQs

Questions? We have answers.

We don’t really track metrics like revenue, margins, etc...all that stuff other companies track. Is that a problem?
Not at all. You’d be surprised how many private companies don’t track a lot of that stuff well, either :) Cascade is designed to let you track qualitative action progress to completion, too. Even if you don’t have a single measure/KPI to track today, you will still instantly get insights from Cascade as you enter your goals. Our team can also help coach you on basic metric tracking, too (see this article to get a head start!).
Our Board/leadership team is very used to seeing very specific views during quarterly reviews. Can we ensure they will get similar reporting from Cascade?
Our team has seen just about any kind of reporting you can imagine, and there is almost always a way to get something close to what was familiar before. Having a dynamic space like Cascade creates an opportunity to bring these meetings and visuals into the future. That said, you can always grab exports and visuals from Cascade to incorporate into presentations as a back-up. Regardless, your reports and commentary are all getting compiled automatically and this makes preparation much easier!
Not everyone across our schools/departments thinks about strategy in a structured way. How would we deal with this?
Every workspace in Cascade can be tailored specifically to a team, and we can work together on coming up with a minimum standard framework to help bring them together regardless of differences. Some groups will have very robust plans, and others will just have a handful of goals. There is no perfect way to set goals for your group - the important thing is getting everything in one place to spur collaboration and alignment, and evolve from there!
Can Cascade help us with satisfying accreditation requirements?
Absolutely - we have customers across the board using accreditation plans, tagging initiatives throughout their strategies with accreditation requirements, etc...plenty of ways to instantly show what your university is doing to justify accreditation.