The overall Resource Planning Process is depicted in the Northwestern Resource Planning Process Map. University priorities guide the Resource Planning Process. These priorities inform school/unit ...

Sales, inventory and operations planning (SIOP) is process used for monitoring and upgrading a company's operating plan. It pulls all departments together to ensure that potential problems can be ...

In previous posts, we stepped through the process of understanding the business, the threats it faces related to business continuity, and how prepared it is to prevent, detect, or respond to events.

Throughout my years advising leadership teams on strategic planning, I’ve witnessed a consistent pattern: companies often judge the quality of their strategy by the sophistication of the final ...

In my last conversation with Roddy—when he could still talk—was on the need to define outside-in processes. Twelve years ago, Roddy and I worked together at the same research firm. We often ...

"Strategy is the direction and scope of an organization over the long-term which achieves advantage for the organization through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment, to ...

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, staying ahead of the curve requires a sophisticated approach to demand planning. Traditional methods often fall short in navigating the complexities of ...

This is a revised column from one that Dr. Chaman Jain, the editor of the Journal of Business Forecasting (JBF), recently asked me to write. It discussed the relationship between strategic and ...

What Is Visionary Planning?. The planning function in business is often thought of as the process of allocating the company's human resources, capital and productive capacity in a way that... The ...

The Army provides leaders at all levels training in deliberate planning during their professional military education (PME) courses. However, rarely do these courses train Lieutenants and ...