• Benchmark 2017 has been launched (12/14/2016) - In a dynamic competitive environment efficient corporate planning becomes a critical success factor. But more than in operational processes, corporate planning is very hard to evaluate. How efficient is your planning? How do your planning processes compare to best-practices and to other companies? A new study in cooperation with a German university provides… Read More
• Thoughts on Planning: How do you know if your planning is good”?” (12/5/2016) - Way more than in operational processes, corporate planning is very hard to evaluate. What tells you that your planning is "good"? What does "good" even mean? And is that worth the money your company spends on it? A new study in cooperation with a German university provides answers.  Cycle times, processing costs,… Read More
• Thoughts on Planning: Do you really think that adding detail will improve accuracy? (11/19/2016) - Planning always means handling uncertainty. Organizations want to avoid uncertainty as good as possible, and they use planning as a means to achieve that. A frequent misunderstanding in doing so is that a more detailed planning automatically means a more accurate planning. The opposite can be the case.  There's an old but… Read More
• Thoughts on Planning: Are you planning already or are you still playing budget poker? (11/3/2016) - Budgeting and Target-Setting have become a tradition in many companies, even though they can cause quite obvious negative side effects. Provocatively speaking, classical budgeting processes not only are very time-consuming and costly. They regularly force people to cheat. A good friend approached me a few weeks ago, she was a bit weary. She… Read More