We're happy to announce the relaunch of the Balanced Scorecard Community at www.bscCommunity.com. The all-new Balanced Scorecard community is a 100% free, no registration required, collaboratively edited question and answer site. It's a great resource to ask questions about the Balanced Scorecard and get answers from the community.

Over the past few years, we've been looking for ways to better engage the global Balanced Scorecard community, and with the relaunch of the community, I think we've found it. The new community is based on the community building technology and methodology that Stack Overflow, a wildly successful technical community, uses.

Why should you visit the new and improved BSC Community? A few reasons come to mind:

1. Ask that question that no one has the answer to
2. Show off your expertise and answer questions
3. Connect with performance management experts
4. Get free consulting from the community
5. Support the continued growth of the performance management community

What's in this for Ascendant, you ask? (And why wouldn't you ask that obvious question). Well, first and foremost, our business depends on the continued awareness, use, and enhancement of the Balanced Scorecard. The more people know about it, and the more people that use it, the better off we'll bet.

We're also a relatively small organization in the big Balanced Scorecard / Performance Management space. Yes, we think we have some of the absolutely best consultants, but there's a lot going on out in the BSC world that we don't know. The community is our way to try to tap into that knowledge.

Please visit the site and give it a try. And, to sweeten the deal, we'll be mailing out free copies of Kaplan and Norton's "Execution Premium" bestseller to the first five people (not from Ascendant) who reach a 200 reputation score!