Analyze. Redefine. Transform.

Business transformation approach for addressing key business issues and opportunities

Since 1969, we have specialized in business transformation, helping leaders unlock their organization's potential today and in the future. Our business transformation approach addresses the need for rapid, externally driven changes, emphasizing the importance of aligning company aspirations with market demands.

Organizations are typically used to managing one disruptive influence at a time, but they now need to deal with rapid externally driven changes with little to no time to prepare before the next disruptor hits.

Instead of relying on what has worked in the past, business leaders must recalibrate challenges, aspirations, and direction to understand their organization better, create company alignment, and prioritize the many competing opportunities available to them.

Explore our business transformation workshops or contact us to learn more about our tailored business transformation approach.

Benefits of our business transformation approach

Enhanced performance: greater foresight leads to improved performance, aligned strategies, integrated planning, and robust execution.

Leadership alignment: ensures the entire organization shares a common vision, drive, and strategic direction with a clear action plan.

Adaptability: better positions organizations to manage and capitalize on disruptive changes.

Consider our services if:

You want to develop agile responses that are beneficial for your business and customers
You want to change internal processes to capitalize on externally driven changes
You want to better manage short-term changes and help your customers to do the same
You want to free up resources to focus energy on making the changes needed to advance your business

Our business transformation process

Analyze: we benchmark your current business performance using the Oliver Wight 'Class A' standard.

Redefine: through executive coaching, we gain commitment and alignment on business priorities.

Transform: we provide a vision to cross-functional teams to implement key transformational pillars identified in the Redefine stage.

Helping organizations deliver their ambitions.

A golden opportunity to take back control.

We guide your organization in process improvement and effective decision-making processes, ensuring your leadership team is aligned and thinking cross-functionally. This preparation ensures that when a business disruptor arises, you can manage it confidently and seize new opportunities.

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Upcoming courses

Workshops

11 Feb
2025

Virtual (English)

Integrated Business Planning – Introduction, Overview, and Current Best Practice

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10 Jun
2025

Virtual (English)

Integrated Business Planning – Introduction, Overview, and Current Best Practice

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09 Sep
2025

Virtual (English)

Integrated Business Planning – Introduction, Overview, and Current Best Practice

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11 Nov
2025

Virtual (English)

Integrated Business Planning – Introduction, Overview, and Current Best Practice

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Analyze. Redefine. Transform.

Latest white papers & case studies

Using Integrated Business Planning to bring your sustainability strategy to life

While aligning business operations with environmental stewardship has been discussed for decades, it has never been as critical as in the current global context.

Deploying Strategy with Integrated Business Planning – Management Business Review

This paper provides an overview of the fifth step in the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process – The Management Business Review (MBR) – and its significance in shaping the future direction of the business and what it takes to be effective.

Deploying Strategy with Integrated Business Planning – The Integrated Reconciliation Review

This paper considers the role of the fourth step in the IBP process, the Integrated Reconciliation Review (IRR). In the IRR, the unresolved issues from the previous three steps are filtered and, where they cannot be addressed, prepared for escalation to

Doom looms or opportunity awaits

Discover how your organization can harness procurement and purchasing to maintain profitability in an uncertain world.

Deploying Strategy with Integrated Business Planning - Connecting Strategy to Execution

This white paper demonstrates the principles of connecting strategy to plans and execution in each business function using IBP as the means of deployment.

Assumptions Management Part 2: Structural Integrity

In part one of this white paper, we covered the 10 keys to effective assumption management. Part two investigates the structures and frameworks available to source and stimulate the thinking behind a company’s plans.

Navigating the decision: behavior, empowerment, and integration to support the information revolution

The higher up you go in most organizations, the more unreliable & challenging the information that drives decision making becomes. In this paper, we outline why leaders need to focus on business alignment to deliver a decision-making strategy that works.

From complexity to simplicity: The power of aligning people, process, and technology

Integrated Business Planning (IBP) helps organizations take a holistic view of their operations. It’s not about just co-ordinating every function around a well-defined strategy.

Assumptions Management Part 1: Controlling your future in an uncertain world

In this paper, we outline 10 keys to effective assumption management.

Five key factors to speed up your successful IBP journey: Intelligent solutions meet your integrated process.

In this paper, we outline five key steps to enabling a more integrated, sophisticated, and cost-effective IBP integration.

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Überall auf der Welt lässt sich zurzeit ein besorgniserregender Trend beobachten: Kunden wird Integrated Business Planning (IBP) verkauft, geliefert aber wird einfaches, traditionelles S&OP unter falschem Etikett.

Transformer son S&OP en IBP

Beaucoup d'entreprises ne retirent pas tous les bénéfices potentiels de leur processus S & OP, car ce dernier n’a pas évolué au fil des ans et reste un simple équilibrage demande / supply. Oliver Wight a fait évolué le processus vers la Planification Inté

Analyze. Redefine. Transform.

Latest books

The Transition from Sales and Operations Planning to Integrated Business Planning - Second Edition

In an easy-to-digest format, this book uses a fictional company to show how to transition to Integrated Business Planning. Further, it explains how companies link strategy to execution through the IBP process.

The Oliver Wight Class A Standard for Business Excellence

The Seventh Edition Class A Standard reflects all the change that has happened in arguably the most volatile and rapidly changing era; it gives you everything you need to thrive in this brave new world and build your business for the future.

Le Standard Classe A d’Oliver Wight pour l’Excellence en Entreprise

La septième édition du Standard Classe A reflète tous les changements survenus au cours de l’ère sans doute la plus instable et la plus en mutation depuis longtemps; elle vous donne tout ce dont vous avez besoin pour prospérer dans ce nouveau monde et bâtir votre entreprise pour l'avenir.

Der Class A Standard für Business Excellence nach Oliver Wight

Der Class A Standard in seiner siebten Ausgabe spiegelt all die Veränderungen wider, die in der wohl volatilsten und schnelllebigsten Ära stattgefunden haben. Es gibt Ihnen alles, was Sie benötigen, um in dieser schönen neuen Welt Wachstum zu generieren und Ihr Geschäft auf die Zukunft auszurichten.

El Estándar de Clase A para la Excelencia Empresarial de Oliver Wight

Orchestrating Success: Improve Control of the Business with Sales & Operations Planning

The authors present a dynamic approach to effectively link sales and marketing planning directly to the operations side of a business. Demonstrates how to create a connection between a company's business plan and each department's operations, accurately anticipate changes in customer's needs and significantly improve a firm's competitive position with an enhanced level of customer satisfaction.

Enterprise Sales and Operations Planning

Operational excellence cannot be achieved by technology alone. An effective sales and operations planning (S&OP) process is essential to successfully implement any integrated management system, such as enterprise resources planning or supply chain management. This book illustrates the effective real world implementation of this powerful process. It is written as a case narrative with an instructional style that managers can relate to.

An Executive's Guide to Achieving Class A Business Excellence

Executives – and aspiring executives – face challenges with increased regulations and aggressive competition, as well as economic pressures. Increased costs of running a business, poor customer service, mismanaged inventories, and weak management processes are just some of those challenges. This new book provides perspectives on how to address those challenges utilizing the transformation capabilities of some of Oliver Wight’s most experienced coaches and educators.

Analyze. Redefine. Transform.

Latest videos and webinars

Oliver Wight IBP Powered by Board - Core Capabilities

Dive into the world of Oliver Wight IBP Powered by Board as we reveal how our unique solution seamlessly combines people, processes, and technology, giving you a smarter approach to business planning

Oliver Wight IBP Powered by Board - Portfolio Review

Discover how targets, strategy and priorities within the Portfolio become easier than ever by viewing the Product Master Plan, Innovation Funnel and Critical Resource Plan all in one place

Oliver Wight IBP Powered by Board - Demand Review

Discover how the Demand Review Facilitator dashboard can provide visibility of actual and planned performance, highlighting changes and issues through alerts based on agreed materiality criteria.

Oliver Wight IBP Powered by Board - Supply Review

View and implement planning adjustment parameters for critical supply constraints across the end-to-end supply chain.

Oliver Wight IBP Powered by Board - Integrated Reconciliation

Visualize multiple scenarios to assist understanding and aid in better resource planning. Filter out the most important information from the IBP cycle for easy presentation creation.

Oliver Wight IBP Powered by Board - Management Business Review

Discover how you can easily view organization's KPI scorecard and visualize gaps versus commitments

Balancing Planning (IBP) and Execution (ITP) in Rapidly Changing Socioeconomic Environments

Flavio Pietrocola, Oliver Wight Partner, explains how to find the right balance between Planning (IBP) and Execution (ITP) in this disruptive and rapidly changing world.

How to steer a company through the D-VUCAD world? (in German)

This podcast episode discusses how to steer companies through volatile, unpredictable times and what modern control instruments and technologies there are that companies should use.

Managing Change through Effective Implementation of Integrated Business Planning

Oliver Wight Partner, Gary Connors explains the five common failure modes in implementing Integrated Business Planning and how to manage changes through IBP.

Moving to E2E Supply Chain Management with IBP coordination

Watch the video to see Oliver Wight's CEO Les Brookes explains how to drive End-to-End supply chain transformation with IBP.

Eminox Ltd: What was it like working with Oliver Wight?

Oliver Wight Partner, Dawn Dent spoke to Eminox's Managing Director Mark Runciman, who shares his experience of working with Oliver Wight.

The Digital Supply Chain podcast

Supply Chain Resilience with Integrated Business Planning - a chat with SAP and Oliver Wight.