AI is infiltrating our personal lives and the workplace, and soon will be everywhere and irreplaceable in everything you do. At home and in the workplace. Developing and cultivating an AI Mindset will become a must for the modern knowledge worker. In a series of short blogs, I will explore core elements of an AI mindset. In this blog, Trust. Granting Trust to AI Within … Continue reading Cultivating an AI Mindset: Smart Trust
As I was reading Ethan Mollick’s book, Co-Intelligence on Sunday morning, I indulged myself in some GenAI vanity and asked my IBPGPT; “Write me a 800 word blog about the evolution of IBP using Niels van Hove’s vision, but don’t use his name“ Besides some fluff and jargon around the edges and a surprising focus on scenario planning I didn’t know I had, it gave … Continue reading Digital Transformation has become Bullsh*t! Let’s talk Human-AI Transformation
In his book Co-Intelligence, Ethan Mollick suggests firstly to invite AI to the table in everything you do. And secondly to make sure to be the human in the loop that works with AI. Working with AI/GenAI is a skill that can be developed. Prompting GenAI certainly takes practice and Mollick provides some interesting and well thought through prompt examples. If you’re an IBP manager … Continue reading Invite AI to the Table for your next IBP Meeting
IBP and its predecessor S&OP were developed as executive decision-making forums. In support of effective decision making in the IBP process, we could expect many decision centric capabilities in an organization. Improving IBP decision centricity results in improvements like: 👉 Increased decision speed 👉 Improved decision quality 👉 Reduced decision bias 👉 Less analytics waste 👉 Effective decision learning 👉 Improved engagement with decision process … Continue reading IBP decision centricity study: a lack of managing bias, speed, digitization, incentives & learning
Planners make plans… With their plans they facilitate decision making in the S&OP process, rather than making decisions with a direct business impact themselves. Planning systems create plans…or schedules… The outcomes of advanced planning systems (APS), as advanced as they may be, are plans, schedules, analytics, insights, alerts, scenario’s, at best recommendations…not S&OP decisions! An APS system can be considered a system of record for … Continue reading Beware of ‘Decision Washing’ in Supply Chain Planning
Recently, I published below Decision-Centric S&OP infographic in collaboration with Marcia Williams. We had a lot of positive responses. A focus on decision making is not new. In the end, S&OP was created as an executive decision making forum. But I think we certainly can get more value out of understanding and framing our decisions better, orchestrating the decision making process, minimising bias, capturing decisions … Continue reading The State of Decision Centricity in IBP
Over the last couple of years, I have been mentioning Decision-Centric S&OP/IBP in my articles. In 2021, I explored the efficacy between decision automation and augmentation for different decision horizons and proposed a new narrative for IBP that includes decision automation, capturing and learning, with IBP managers who are incentivised to improve decision quality. Other articles and blogs followed Decision centricity supported by the digitization … Continue reading Decision-Centric versus Traditional S&OP
Over the weekend I made my first GPT. It’s an IBP GPT, maybe the world’s first. Although you can make GPT’s more sophisticated, you can start rather simple. That’s what I did. I took an open AI membership, created a GPT, wrote a prompt, wrote four prompt indicators. Told it to be friendly and gave it some other guidance. My aim was to help an … Continue reading Solving Your IBP Problems With the World’s First IBP GPT
Many Integrated Business Planning (IBP) cycles around the world are based on a 30-year-old process definition supported by similarly aged planning concepts. This traditional IBP is often not sufficient anymore for a fast-changing world, where speed of decision making and taking the right action means competitive advantage. Well run, traditional IBP can have many positive outcomes, but there are also many limitations like sequential process … Continue reading Embracing Decision Intelligence to Enhance Integrated Business Planning
Low-touch, or touchless planning, forecasting and other types of supply chain knowledge work automation have been around for a while now. A trend that started with Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in the back-office, automating dull and repetitive tasks like invoice matching, evolved into cognitive automation and autonomous execution of more advanced supply chain processes using intelligent agents. I envisioned autonomous IBP in 2016 and published … Continue reading Automation has Limits, Learning has no Boundaries
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