• Do you really want to know how good you are? (1/31/2017) - You want to know how your own corporate planning processes are positioned compared to benchmark companies? Then take part in Benchmark 2017 Invitation to Benchmark 2017 You want to know how your own corporate planning processes are positioned compared to benchmark companies? You want to get an objective evaluation of… Read More
• Translating Business Complexity into a Manageable Solution (1/26/2017) - Implementing an efficient management and reporting architecture in a global company with more than 500 legal entities is a big challenge. Doing that within 8 months sounds literally impossible. Two well-known global consulting companies had already failed trying when our consultants got involved. We transformed the extremely complex structures and… Read More
• Thoughts on Planning: Why tools don’t matter THAT much (1/20/2017) - Around 80% of the issues that are discussed in a corporate planning project are totally tool-independent. More than that, the value added of introducing a new tool typically comes from a process redesign rather than from the tool itself.  Quite frequently planning projects start as IT-projects. Companies want to get… Read More
• Realtime-Consolidation with SAP BPC Embedded (12/21/2016) - „...Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming...“(David Bowie). Realtime-consolidation is becoming true now with SAP BPC Embedded. In this paper we shed some light on the future of SAP-based consolidation. In the sense of David Bowie we argue that Tomorrow in consolidation tools belongs to those who can… Read More