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decision intelligence, S&OP

Embracing Decision Intelligence to Enhance Integrated Business Planning

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

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decision intelligence, Digital supply chain, S&OP

Reimagining IBP in the Age of AI

What would a Martian expert in supply chain planning and technology think when looking back at earth? With all technology available on earth would it continue with a 30+ year old, sequential, cascading, rather sluggish, manual planning process with a lack of focus on decision digitisation, decision quality and decision learning? Or would it start with a blank sheet and reimagine IBP? Closing the planning … Continue reading Reimagining IBP in the Age of AI

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decision intelligence, Digital supply chain, S&OP

Intelligent IBP: A Need for Decision Centricity

At the core, the IBP process must facilitate executive decision making.

However, it lacks focus on using best practice decisions models to facilitate #decisionquality and #decisionlearning.

We can solve these traditional IBP decision gaps, enable a reduction in decision time and analytics waste, whilst increasing employee engagement with the decision process.

#Decisionintelligence technology can digitize decisions and decision context, create a system of records for decisions and develop a decision memory that helps continuously improve #decisionquality.

This is the fifth in a series of blogs, where I describe how #intelligentautomation and #decisionintelligence can help create a more #intelligentIBP and change the future of work. Continue reading Intelligent IBP: A Need for Decision Centricity

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