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Blog
09 Feb 2024

Lessons learned and insights gained: a recap of events in 2023

Our Events and Campaign Marketing Executive Hollie Cooper recaps Oliver Wight's thought leadership shared at events in 2023.

Blog
02 Jan 2024

Key learnings from the 8th Annual S&OP to Integrated Business Planning Summit

Oliver Wight Partners Bas Kersten and Dick Heldoorn share some key learnings from the 8th Annual S&OP to Integrated Business Planning Summit.

Blog
14 Nov 2023

Trust is a must – the human dynamics that unlock integrated business planning success

IBP brings structure, but real transformation requires engaging hearts and minds. Leaders should focus on building trust, creative tension, and shared commitment.

Blog
30 Jun 2023

My first foray into Gartner’s Supply Chain Symposium….

Oliver Wight Partner Ben Collins shares his experience and learnings from attending the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium earlier this month.

Blog
08 May 2023

Planning problems: is xP&A the new IBP?

Extended planning and analysis is arguably not the issue when it comes to generating accurate or relevant forecasts, while Integrated Business Planning offers everything organizations require.

Blog
03 May 2023

Decision time: beware the hype around generative artificial intelligence

ChatGPT, Bard and other tools are incredibly impressive, for sure, but business leaders need to work out how best to use them – if at all – and not simply feed the robotic beast.

Blog
14 Apr 2023

CEOs can’t afford to be busy fools and worry about short-term issues

Today’s leaders have to be more focused on what’s happening in a year, or more, to ensure the organization is heading in the right direction – trust and confidence in an empowering system is critical to succeed tomorrow.

Blog
10 Mar 2023

Virtual healthcare trend shows future for all industries

Few people like change, but with a clear long-term strategy and education, organizations can drive technology-powered transformation from within and provide better-personalized service for customers.

Blog
24 Feb 2023

Lack of available medicines hints at ‘broken Britain’ – organizations must plan accordingly

While the UK government may play down supply-chain issues the reality is the short- and long-term health of businesses will suffer without alternative plans in place.

Blog
17 Oct 2022

Why it is critical for businesses to know why numbers change

Traditional annual or biannual business plans are outdated – to keep pace and have confidence in long-term plans organizations have to use rolling assumptions

Blog
31 May 2022

Chocolate ‘shrinkflation’ takes the biscuit – but also displays how not to manage costs across future horizons

Tomorrow’s likely success can no longer be measured on today’s results, and without adequate investment in foresight and scenario planning business leaders will make poor long- and short-term decisions.

Blog
26 May 2022

Extra Easter travel chaos at UK airports showed poor business planning

The miserable delays at UK airports were enough to put people off flying for a long time – but with high travel demand easily predictable there was no excuse for bosses getting it so wrong.