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Budgeting and Forecasting / Business Intelligence / IBP / Planning and Forecasting
16 Oct, 2018
When teams within an organisation operate in siloes, the effects can be detrimental to the business. It results in gaps, inefficiencies, and lost productivity. Substantial effort is put in to strategising and planning at...
Budgeting and Forecasting / IBP / Planning and Forecasting
4 Sep, 2018
After many years in consulting, I am still surprised to find that even organisations with sophisticated transactional forecasting and supply chain capabilities still rely on spreadsheets for their final mile of decision support in...
Budgeting and Forecasting / Business Intelligence / Planning and Forecasting
27 Apr, 2018
Many businesses are either still in their annual budgeting process, or have just finished and are taking a breath. It is often a long, arduous and heavily manual process, typically unloved by the business....
Business Intelligence / IBP / Planning and Forecasting
26 Jun, 2017
Great to attend the recent Akolade 2nd Annual Integrated Business Planning Summit in Sydney. A fantastic mix of content and presentations and many takeaways. I had many highlights, too many to list here but...
23 Mar, 2017
Rolling planning should be the mandatory state for every business. This blog isn’t to advocate the benefits of rolling planning over a single annual plan and its narrow lookout towards the end of financial...
Business Intelligence / CFO / Performance Management / Planning and Forecasting
16 Mar, 2017
Decision-making processes are key to your success. They direct resources, mitigate risk and exploit opportunity. Given the nature of business, decisions are both transient and fixed. Formal processes require evaluation and approval, e.g. budgets...
23 Jan, 2017
In my previous blog post, I discussed why an organisation should integrate financial projections into Integrated Business Planning (IBP). In this blog post, we explore how to construct financial projections out to the planning horizon...
23 Jan, 2017
Integrating financial plans with the operational and strategic plans remains a challenge for many organisations. Finance departments and operational planning are still failing to work together. They are unable to produce a financial projection...
8 Dec, 2016
In my previous blog post, I discussed the disconnect between Finance and Operations, and the need to operate cross functionally. Key to achieving this, is an integrated performance framework, such as Oliver Wight’s Integrated...
8 Dec, 2016
As an IT professional, I’ve spent almost two decades providing businesses with technology solutions, such as business intelligence, forecasting, demand planning, strategy management, and financial budgeting. While each initiative delivers on its own merit, a much...