Integrated Tactical Planning

Preface

Unlocking the Greatest Management Secret

We have long believed that Integrated Tactical Planning is the 21st century's greatest management secret in that best of companies simply “execute” all the time without stopping to think about whether they are doing the right thing at the right time. Our experience and observations suggest there is scant evidence of consistent methods and standard terminology to define best practices and that many companies do not know what these practices look like. In writing this book, we have been able to release some of the great practices we have deployed when we were in the industry ourselves and, more recently, some of the stunning successes we have had engaging with our clients. One of the standout findings through our research is that every Oliver Wight consultant would insist that there is a weekly replanning process deployed to support a company's monthly management process. Full stop. This may sound simple and reasonable, but where is the background literature to support how this is best achieved? Even when speaking with our software alliance partners, there is some functionality designed within the application, but it is nonstandard terminology and typically a silo functional view at best. We intend to make Integrated Tactical Planning an industry standard term and elevate its understanding from ad hoc to defining something that all companies can, and indeed, should be doing. Most important, we would like to share the benefits realized ...