Most enterprises are not short on plans. They have strategic roadmaps, multi-year investment portfolios, annual operating plans and governance frameworks to create alignment and control. These plans ...

Retailers and brands today face a double-edged sword. On one side, omni-channel retailing and proliferating customer touch points provide more opportunities than ever to engage with and sell to ...

Many organizations still view strategic planning as a linear process, one with a defined start and end. First, you plan. Then you execute. Right? Once your annual plan is decidedly complete, you move ...

Most would agree these past two years have been unlike anything we’ve experienced before. Consistent, predictable consumer demand has been replaced with dramatic shifts in buying preferences, flooding ...

The world is in a hyper-state of change. Industries are being disrupted and then disrupted again by a spectrum of influences from brilliant innovation to exogenous events that affect global economic ...

Getting finance transformation right is no easy task - and continuous planning is a high bar indeed. But as my review of FPM use cases shows, there are plenty of good reasons to move ahead, and plenty ...

Anything that you do well is worth doing better over time. The term "continuous improvement" describes a process practiced by quality engineers but it speaks to something that every conscientious ...

Business in 2020 has been defined almost entirely by Covid-19, and its impacts are certain to extend well beyond this year. Organizations have undergone a permanent paradigm shift, and the way we work ...

This article overviews some of the benefits and methods of state-based control as it applies to the models defined by the ISA106, Procedure Automation for Continuous Process Operations standards ...

Higher education can no longer rely on once-a-decade master plans. CannonDesign's Kushan Dave and Frances Fox outline how AI-driven tools and real-time data can enable a culture of continuous planning ...

The previous articles in this series have offered guidance on how to create IT disaster recovery (DR) plans for cloud environments and implement them. In this final article, we look at maintaining the ...