Most organisations start business planning with sales forecasts. Smart companies begin with a portfolio strategy. Here's why marketing should lead your planning cycle, not follow it.
This blog explores how financial leadership ensures alignment between operational plans and strategic goals, drives accountability, and enables informed decision-making at the executive level.
When finance operates in isolation, it slows down decision-making and disconnects strategy from execution. Discover how breaking down the 'ivory tower' mindset unlocks business-wide collaboration, sharper planning, and real growth.
Month-end reporting doesn’t belong on the sidelines of your IBP process - it should be at its core. Discover why integrating finance into your planning cycle is key to unlocking forward-looking decisions and operational clarity.
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The recent announcement of US tariff increases has triggered market tremors. Supply chains are being hastily reconfigured, procurement strategies upended, and investment plans frozen, often based more on panic than perspective.
IBP can transform organisations, but realising its full potential demands active leadership engagement – from initial buy-in through sustained commitment and robust succession planning.
In many businesses FP&A is overtaking the supply chain to become the preeminent business function. It’s a remarkable turnaround, bringing with it a new breed of commercially minded financial professionals focused on helping the business grow.
As increasing trade restrictions and regional economic blocs transform global commerce, businesses must fundamentally rethink their supply chains, explain Dick Heldoorn and Bas Kersten, Partners at Oliver Wight.
From failed infrastructure plans to unsuccessful product launches, poor project management produces similar failure patterns. Here's how to avoid these pitfalls and deliver successful projects regardless of scale.
As more CFOs step into CEO roles, forward-thinking finance professionals are leveraging Integrated Business Planning to transform from number crunchers into strategic leaders. But success requires a fundamental mindset shift.
