Many organizations still view strategic planning as a linear process, one with a defined start and end. First, you plan. Then you execute. Right? Once your annual plan is decidedly complete, you move ...

Retailers and brands today face a double-edged sword. On one side, omni-channel retailing and proliferating customer touch points provide more opportunities than ever to engage with and sell to ...

Most would agree these past two years have been unlike anything we’ve experienced before. Consistent, predictable consumer demand has been replaced with dramatic shifts in buying preferences, flooding ...

My last conversation with Planful's CEO was cut short when he had to go off to catch the Eurostar to Paris. We'd discussed the likely impact of AI on the role of finance professionals, but I had some ...

Most enterprises are not short on plans. They have strategic roadmaps, multi-year investment portfolios, annual operating plans and governance frameworks to create alignment and control. These plans ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anything that you do well is worth doing better over time. The term "continuous improvement" describes a process practiced by quality engineers but it speaks to something that every conscientious ...

This article overviews some of the benefits and methods of state-based control as it applies to the models defined by the ISA106, Procedure Automation for Continuous Process Operations standards ...

A business needs to have both a strategic plan and a budget. The strategic plan lays out the direction and goals of the business and guidelines for actions to achieve those goals, while the budget ...

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 ...