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Integrated Business Planning (IBP)

The backbone for leadership decision-making with clear accountabilities.

Integrated Business Planning is not just a method; it is the meaning behind your ambition, that connects strategy to results. In today’s fast-moving world, leaders need more than a plan. You need the clarity, coordination and confidence to act… together.

Integrated Business Planning exposes gaps, drives alignment and connects the dots between ambition and action. But more than this, it ensures the key decisions that deliver your future are taken at the right time and implemented with efficiency and alignment. It runs your business.

Our Approach to Implementing Integrated Business Planning.

Integrated Business Planning helps you move from siloed firefighting to fast integrated decision-making. Today’s leaders need quick wins and lasting change. That is why we focus on delivering the change quickly and then building your capability to improve.

Integrated Business Planning, when delivered the Oliver Wight way, focuses on behaviours, outcomes, and embedding capability, not just process mechanics, supported by smart technology like Oliver Wight IBP Powered by Board to accelerate adoption and embed integrated planning across your business.

IBP exposes the behaviours that block alignment. When we fix those, performance follows.

Monte Maritz

How Mature Is Your Integrated Business Planning?

Our free Integrated Business Planning Maturity Tool provides instant clarity on your current capabilities, pinpointing precise improvements to accelerate performance and unify your enterprise.

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Integrated Business Planning Consulting Services.

We help organisations unlock the full value of Integrated Business Planning, not by installing software or running templates, but by aligning leaders, clarifying priorities, and building the behaviours that support better decisions.

Whether you’re introducing IBP for the first time, fine-tuning specific elements, or aiming to elevate your process to the next level of maturity, we’ll meet you where you are and help you move forward with clarity and confidence.

Our Integrated Business Planning consultancy includes:

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Maturity diagnostics and capability assessments
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Behavioural alignment and change planning
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Process design and implementation
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Launch at speed, with structured improvement
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Financial integration and alignment
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Coaching and leadership support
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Ongoing capability transfer

Integrated Business Planning Virtual Workshops.

Our interactive Integrated Business Planning workshops help teams see Integrated Business Planning not just as a planning tool, but as a lever for clarity, collaboration and competitiveness. Ideal for executives who need to act quickly, avoid waste, and align around one version of the truth.

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You’ll learn how to:

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Spot behavioural blockers in your existing process
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Reframe Integrated Business Planning as a value enabler, not a reporting exercise
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Build momentum with short, tangible interventions

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Is Integrated Business Planning The Solution To Your Problem?

Integrated Business Planning consulting can help organisations that are suffering from a range of systemic issues. For example, do any of the following sound familiar?

Business Leaders

You’re stuck in reactive cycles, and strategy doesn’t translate into execution.

IBP helps align priorities, unify planning, and drive enterprise-wide performance.

Finance Leaders

Budgeting is painful, and financial forecasts are disconnected or unreliable.

IBP creates a single version of the truth, improving predictability and enabling finance to play a more strategic role.

Supply Chain Leaders

You’re constantly firefighting, inventory levels are volatile, and demand signals don’t flow through the business.

IBP breaks down silos, enabling proactive planning, optimized stock, and better service levels.

Sales & Marketing Leaders

Your plans are ambitious, but operations can’t keep up and marketing is cut off from what’s feasible.

IBP aligns commercial ambition with operational reality, ensuring strategic plans can be delivered effectively.

Why Invest In Integrated Business Planning?

Leverage Integrated Business Planning solutions to unlock the full potential of your business, drive significant performance improvements, and sustain competitive advantage in your industry.

Aligned outcomes

We link strategy to action and plan to performance

Real experience

Our consultants have walked in your shoes

Capability-led

We build your team’s confidence, not dependency

Action-focused

No fluff. Just clarity, structure and practical delivery

Sustainable results

We leave you stronger than we found you

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Integrated Business Planning (IBP)?

Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is the backbone for leadership decision-making. Far from just being a standard process or set of mechanics, it connects an organisation’s strategy to tangible results. IBP drives alignment across the enterprise, exposes gaps, and ensures that the key decisions required to deliver on future ambitions are made efficiently and at the right time.

How does Oliver Wight’s approach to IBP differ from other methods?

Oliver Wight, the original architects of modern business planning, focus heavily on behaviours, outcomes, and building capability. Rather than just installing software or using rigid templates, their approach identifies and fixes the behavioural blockers that prevent alignment. By combining this human-first methodology with smart technology, they ensure rapid adoption and sustainable, integrated planning capabilities.

What specific challenges does IBP solve for different business leaders?

IBP provides tailored solutions to systemic issues across various departments:

Business Leaders: Translates high-level strategy into actual execution, replacing reactive cycles with enterprise-wide performance.
Finance Leaders: Creates a single version of the truth, resolving painful, disconnected budgeting processes and improving forecasting predictability.
Supply Chain Leaders: Breaks down silos to end constant firefighting, enabling proactive planning, optimised inventory, and better service levels.
Sales & Marketing Leaders: Aligns commercial ambitions with operational realities so that strategic marketing plans can be delivered effectively without overwhelming operations.

What does the Oliver Wight IBP consultancy service include?

Their comprehensive consultancy services are designed to meet organisations wherever they are on their IBP journey. The services include:

Maturity diagnostics and capability assessments.
Behavioural alignment and change planning.
Process design, implementation, and launch at speed.
Financial integration and alignment.
Coaching, leadership support, and ongoing capability transfer.

Why should an organisation invest in IBP?

Investing in IBP helps organisations move from siloed, reactive operations to fast, integrated decision-making. The core benefits include highly aligned outcomes connecting strategy to action, sustainable results that leave teams stronger, and action-focused structures free of fluff. Ultimately, it builds the team’s internal capability and confidence, ensuring a lasting competitive advantage.

The Original Architects of IBP.

Oliver Wight pioneered the principles of modern business planning — the original inventors and leading exponents of Integrated Business Planning (IBP). For decades, our approach has set the global standard for alignment, performance and results. In fact, the majority of the world’s leading FMCG organisations run on the Oliver Wight IBP process — a testament to its lasting impact and proven success.

Organisations that are able to capture the energy and power of their employees and channel it through a change program such as IBP, see benefits they could never have imagined possible. Working with clients to help them realise these benefits is truly enriching.

Neil Hill, Partner at Oliver Wight

Integrated Business Planning Success Stories

CPG 6 mins read

Australian Food Manufacturer

An Australian-based company has earned a reputation as one of the country’s most respected food manufacturers, winning several awards in recognition of its superior products. By investing in a programme of education and process re-design with business transformation specialist, Oliver Wight, the company has evolved to become sustainably profitable, across several channels by meeting the changing and exacting needs of customers including the major grocery retailers, airlines and restaurant chains.

Industrial Manufacturing 5 mins read

Aircelle

Aircelle’s Moroccan plant is flying high – with the help of Oliver Wight it has achieved Class A accreditation in near record time and is using new-found efficiency improvements and the resulting cost savings to drive an ambitious growth plan.

Healthcare

ANSTO Asia Pacific

The Australian Nuclear and Science Technology Organisation (ANSTO) has undergone a spectacular transformation and it is now in touching distance of Class A accreditation for Planning and Control. With anticipated annual savings of six million dollars and massive export growth as a result of an operational excellence programme with Oliver Wight, ANSTO’s story is one of vision, commitment to change, and ambitious growth plans.