How Mindfulness can increase S&OP Meeting Effectiveness

In the corporate world you can drown in meetings. Estimates are, that if you’re a middle manager, you can spend about 35% of your time in meetings. If you’re in upper management, that goes up to 50%. S&OP meetings can be long meetings, as it requires time to review a company’s 24 months rolling forecast, its strategic intent and enterprise wide resource allocation. Running straight … Continue reading How Mindfulness can increase S&OP Meeting Effectiveness

NielsSeptember 12, 2016October 15, 20161 Comment

Leadership, S&OP

Six ways to detect if you’re having a Coaching Conversation

About 70 percent of change failures are due to culture-related issues: employee resistance to change and unsupportive management behaviours. S&OP implementations requires significant change, not the least behavioural change. Despite this obvious importance of behaviours in change management, only 26 percent of practitioners indicate that behaviours are addressed enough in S&OP implementations. If we want to drive behavioural change, we can’t just advice or tell … Continue reading Six ways to detect if you’re having a Coaching Conversation

NielsJuly 30, 2016September 12, 2016Leave a comment

Leadership, S&OP

An S&OP communication plan: The final step in support of company strategy

Foresight is a renowned magazine that focuses on the professional development for makers and users of business forecasts. It provides insights from academics and practitioners. I’m honored that in the latest Foresight edition, I’ve been published as a practitioner with my article An S&OP communication plan: The Final Step in support of Company Strategy. The Foresight editor notes about my article: ‘Niels van Hove argues persuasively … Continue reading An S&OP communication plan: The final step in support of company strategy

NielsJuly 2, 2016July 30, 2016Leave a comment

Leadership, S&OP

How to address Cultural Differences in S&OP

The success of Global S&OP depends on, among other things, how well a company adapts to the local culture when developing and implementing it. Cultural issues are important. We may be able to change the culture of a company, but not the culture of a country. A Global S&OP approach Globalization has made it necessary for companies to plan and operate not only across different … Continue reading How to address Cultural Differences in S&OP

NielsJune 6, 2016July 2, 20161 Comment

Leadership, S&OP

How to get Ready to Execute your Company Strategy

Your company has a strategy. Are you confident it is ready to be deployed and executed? Most likely not, as 60%-90% of strategy implementations fail and only 14% of executives are satisfied with the execution of a strategy. This post introduces a framework to assess your company’s strategy execution readiness, in order to align leaders around how to bridge your strategy to execution gaps. Before … Continue reading How to get Ready to Execute your Company Strategy

NielsMay 9, 2016December 18, 2017Leave a comment

Leadership, Positive mindset, S&OP

4 Phases of Behavioural Change in the Journey to S&OP Excellence #3

An S&OP implementation requires many changes, not the least behavioural change. However, there are different behavioural change requirements during a journey to S&OP excellence. These behavioural changes often require coaching to be addressed properly. In four posts, four coaching phases will be explained to support leaders with behavioural change required to reach S&OP excellence. These are; Coach to change, coach to sustain, coach for excellence … Continue reading 4 Phases of Behavioural Change in the Journey to S&OP Excellence #3

NielsApril 13, 2016May 31, 20172 Comments

Leadership, S&OP

Communication; the last step in S&OP

To help your company to execute its strategy, executives need to aspire to implement advanced S&OP. The ultimate goal of S&OP is to plan ahead and provide visibility and support to execute the company strategy. In our busy day to day life we might forget, but communication is an important part of both S&OP and strategy execution. Therefore communication needs to be integrated in an … Continue reading Communication; the last step in S&OP

NielsMarch 30, 2016April 13, 20161 Comment

Leadership, Positive mindset, S&OP

4 Phases of Behavioural Change in the Journey to S&OP Excellence #2

NielsMarch 14, 2016June 5, 20173 Comments

Digital supply chain, S&OP

The Future of Analytics in Integrated Business Planning

According to Wikipedia, prescriptive analysis is – after descriptive and predictive analysis -the third and final stage of business analytics. Gartner plots prescriptive analysis as the final and most difficult stage of data analytics. This article will draw an analogy with the mapping and car industry to suggest that prescriptive analysis as an opportunity to support Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and business optimization, is not … Continue reading The Future of Analytics in Integrated Business Planning

NielsMarch 8, 2016March 3, 20235 Comments

Leadership, Positive mindset, S&OP