Getting finance transformation right is no easy task - and continuous planning is a high bar indeed. But as my review of FPM use cases shows, there are plenty of good reasons to move ahead, and plenty ...

The world is in a hyper-state of change. Industries are being disrupted and then disrupted again by a spectrum of influences from brilliant innovation to exogenous events that affect global economic ...

Why you should scan the horizon and use scenario planning It is self-evident that, without a clear and robust approach to implementation, even the most well-crafted of strategic plans will founder. A ...

For most companies, the days of yearly or even quarterly planning are long gone. A company might put herculean effort into these exercises, but they often go the way of Robert Burns’ “best laid plans” ...

Too many enterprises know firsthand the planning challenges that result from trying to achieve business agility during a time of constant upheaval. Multiple separate spreadsheets for planning and ...

In a world of radical volatility, CFOs have the opportunity to overcome stale and rigid processes by partnering differently with their organizations to develop crowdsourced and continuous business ...

If there were any remaining doubts that modern businesses need to have agility in their DNA, the economic fallout from the COVID-19 crisis should erase them. For some businesses, the virus and ...

The previous articles in this series have offered guidance on how to create IT disaster recovery (DR) plans for cloud environments and implement them. In this final article, we look at maintaining the ...

Business in 2020 has been defined almost entirely by Covid-19, and its impacts are certain to extend well beyond this year. Organizations have undergone a permanent paradigm shift, and the way we work ...

Higher education can no longer rely on once-a-decade master plans. CannonDesign's Kushan Dave and Frances Fox outline how AI-driven tools and real-time data can enable a culture of continuous planning ...