What does powerful planning look like?
Bottlenecks and data silos in planning processes can hamper the ability to collaborate effectively and adapt to fast-changing market conditions, which causes frustration and erodes resilience. Optimizing those processes has the power to create a culture of decisiveness, confidence, and performance across the organization. Every team has the potential to reap those benefits and achieve Superplännen: an elevated state of planning.
In the push to build a plan, it is easy to forget you are not just plugging in numbers to meet a dead-line; you are telling the story of a business and the people in it. A plan should transcend numbers and serve as a road map to success. When a plan is done right, it instills a culture of decisiveness, improves the ability to serve the changing needs of customers, and boosts profitability. Powerful planning empowers teams to shape the future.
Too many organizations around the world have a plan that does not match their actual business model and structure. This is a tremendous dragon accountability and decision-making, and can negatively affect productivity, profitability, and team morale. So why is it so hard to plan according to the way an organization works in the real world? The reason is simple: most organizations use planning and performance management solutions that don’t have the adaptability, integration, or simplicity that teams need to collaborate and succeed.