For the past three years, Adaptive Insights has participated in the Pan-Mass Challenge to raise money for cancer research. Each year is special, marked by new team members reaching goals they’ve set for themselves, and meeting kids whose treatment you’ve sponsored. The ride itself can be grueling, but you do… [READ MORE]
Financial planning and analysis—a key element of business planning as a whole—is fast becoming a pivotal process for organizations aiming to operate with agility in the age of urgency. Decision-makers in all kinds of businesses are realizing that to win, they must plan. And for a modern business, only a… [READ MORE]
Did you ever hear the phrase “you are your numbers”? In most companies, business leaders live and die by their numbers regardless of the circumstances in which they hit or miss them. External conditions could be favorable, and you could hit them with little effort. Being faced with a lot… [READ MORE]
Let’s talk about a real problem that most companies face: business leaders who sandbag their targets to increase their chances of personal success, and accounting who always has something up their sleeves to improve results for a rainy day. Both problems distort real company performance. When you don’t know your… [READ MORE]
What an amazing year it has been for planning. As each day passes, it is increasingly clear that planning is critical for digital transformation in organizations of all sizes. Everywhere we look—in all industries and geographies—we see evidence of how modern planning is helping businesses become more agile, manage their… [READ MORE]
One of the worst things about budgeting is that it tends to lock in your resource spend for the coming year. Too often we hear, “If it’s not in the budget, you can’t spend the money.” But what if things change and one initiative won’t work, but another would that… [READ MORE]
You want full business partner participation in planning, budgeting, and forecasting but you struggle to engage other departments in the process. Does this sound familiar? We thought so. But don’t fret. Here are five tips to spark cross-functional engagement and build confidence in the financial planning process. 1. Define your… [READ MORE]
Creation Technologies provides original equipment manufacturers around the world with integrated electronics manufacturing services solutions that help customers accelerate time to-market, reduce operating costs, and grow revenue. Using a complicated on-premise solution for forecasting that required extensive IT support hampered the company’s ability to become more strategic. After performing due… [READ MORE]
In the recent 2019 State of the Internet presentation, Mary Meeker, the Midas List Kleiner Perkins/Bond Capital partner behind Spotify, Dropbox, Instacart, Slack, Square, Airbnb and Houzz, as well as Facebook and Twitter, captured how the internet is transforming the consumer and enterprise world, and even the political and regulatory sphere.… [READ MORE]
This article is not about the budget process—yet it plays a leading role—but more about the strategy process and the role of budget. When we look at the strategy process, our starting point is that we want to create value. However, once we leave the room, emphasis shifts from the great… [READ MORE]
