Connected Planning, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER 11Bringing It All Together

Effectively leading and managing an organization extends beyond natural intuition; it requires the right information to be shared with the right people at the right time. Connected Planning is the perfect roadmap, enabled only by recent technological advances, to usher in new levels of performance, visibility, speed of action and more from top leadership down to analysts.

—CHRISTOPHER NECK, PHD

Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship

Arizona State University

Connected Planning is really about bringing together all those Enterprise Performance Management–like components that you probably already do in silos, in spreadsheets, or are hoping to do if you had the time. It's about bringing together:

• Modeling, planning, reporting, and analytics
• Finance and operations
• Strategy and execution
• Data, master data, and information
• Rules and definitions
• The past, the present, and the future
• Decisions, actions, and results

The culmination of these components, working together, is the planning management operating system cycle and has been the framework for this book. The cycle is shown in its entirety in Figure 11.1.

Just like Connected Planning is bringing together all those components of the Planning Operating System, this chapter is about bringing together the concepts and practices of Connected Planning itself.

Figure 11.1 The Planning ...