Agility now prevails and we believe that a strategic plan adapts, directs, emphasizes learning and control. An adaptive strategy leading to an adaptive planning.
Set the dot, one man said once. Now do everything to get there, realizing that there are so many options to reach that destination and that the destination itself may shift based on what we learn along the way.
Our previous fictional CFO is no longer projecting the past to the future but he’s experimenting, rapid prototyping, learning quickly what works or not. Our CFO is not collecting data on the more-the-better basis but he’s recognizing patterns based on a small fraction of historical data and close to real time information. Our CFO understands that whatever he realizes looking at a dashboard is already too late to action upon if he needs to launch a corrective action, rather he understands that delegating authority, spreading information to front lines, using the whole company as his team is the way to success.
A continuous and fluid loop across the activities of observing, orienting, deciding and acting. Have you heard the expression “plans are useless but planning is everything”? At Top Dimension, specialized in the broader performance management discipline, we love it because we believe it to be so true. And we live by it in all our assignments: a perfect measure of our qualitative approach is derived by how much we manage to increase the fluidness of our customer’s planning process.
We consider the following:
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It’s not about delivering a sustainable and solid solution, but also how lower the cost of ownership of the planning process is compared to the previous situation.
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It’s not only about the complexity of an automatic solution, but how much quicker the results are visible across your organization compared to the previous situation.
Top Dimension has and keeps working hard to enable its customers to adopt the adaptive planning concept as a necessary mean to move into the future.