Planning… blech
December 15, 2009
It’s December. If your Company hasn’t finished it’s planning process for 2010, surely you are nearly finished. What blows me away is the number of people that try to start planning before understanding what happened in the past.
“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
If you have been asked to participate in the planning process, were you provided with the stats from last year? How many new customers did you get? How did the change to your business process impact your financial performance? How did your customer demographics change in 2009 and what was the resulting impact on sales? Did lower priced products perform as well as expected in this down economy?
How well is your Business Intelligence system allowing you to answer these types of questions? Does it provide these types of answers quickly, easily and can you do-it-yourself? (Or do you have to call someone in IT?) If your 2010 planning was complicated by the lack of 2009 performance data, perhaps you need to add BI to your 2010 plan.
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Our VP of Business Intelligence @jhef shares her thoughts on Planning for 2010 – http://bit.ly/5liMJq
Our VP of Business Intelligence @jhef shares her thoughts on Planning for 2010 – http://bit.ly/5liMJq
RT @jhef RT @LUCRUMinc: Our VP of Business Intelligence @jhef shares her thoughts on Planning for 2010 – http://bit.ly/5liMJq .