Dennis McCuistion is a Dallas-based former bank CEO, board member, university educator, policy expert, speaker, and public television personality. “I’m a three-legged stool,” he likes to say. “I’m in the media business, I’m in the business business, and I’m in the education business. And, as much as possible, I try to bridge those gaps because… read more →
When you pull into a service station to fill up for your commute or, even better, your road-trip vacation, do you think about whether the pump is out of, or will run out of, gasoline? If you were driving in the U.S. back in the 1970s, you no doubt waited in long lines that all-too-often… read more →
The subscription-based business model is far from new; newspaper and magazine publishers have been using it for decades. But the subscription economy is spreading to other industries fast, and it’s not just software businesses and entertainment channels that are driving its growth. For example, during the 2017 Major League Baseball season, the St. Louis Cardinals… read more →
Before global positioning systems (GPS) made navigation foolproof, hikers or sailors wanting to identify their exact location would take two or more compass bearings on prominent landmarks and plotted their intersection. They would never have dreamed of using a single bearing to plot their location because this left an unacceptable degree of error—and perhaps risked… read more →
In a recent webinar, Dana Therrien, Service Director for Sales Operations Strategies at SiriusDecisions, shared a fresh way to look at the tactical and strategic accountabilities of modern sales operations and how to use that knowledge to create a strategy for optimizing resource allocation. Read the recap below, or watch the on-demand recording.Rethinking sales operationsSales… read more →
Stephanie Weiland started her career as a blackjack dealer in Las Vegas, so she has seen plenty of winners and losers. After shifting into corporate finance, she developed her career in investment, retail, and real estate companies before taking up her current position as Senior Manager, FP&A, at Genoa, a QoL Healthcare Company.With its rapidly… read more →
This is the final blog in a series about sales and operations planning (S&OP), written by Ed Lewis, S&OP expert and Valizant CEO.The benefits of an effective S&OP process include improvements in delivery, inventory, costs, and downtime—so it’s easy to see why most companies have begun an S&OP journey of their own. But too many… read more →
According to CNBC, 2017 is on track to have more initial public offerings (IPOs) than 2016—the first year-over-year increase in four years. I’ve noticed something that several newly minted public companies and their hyper-growth kin have in common: They use the Anaplan platform to drive better-informed business decisions.Anaplan customers that prepared for and launched an… read more →
“We have the best damn care team in the business—that’s not even up for debate,” said John Legere, president and CEO of T-Mobile, when he announced on February 1, 2017 that T-Mobile was ranked number one in customer service satisfaction by market research analyst Nielsen Mobile Insights. Legere also promised that the wireless provider would… read more →
Anaplan is proud of its flourishing global community of best-in-class consulting partners. As experts on the Anaplan platform, our partners help customers implement the platform, build and implement apps, and ultimately drive planning transformation at leading organizations globally.That’s particularly true in the fast-growing APAC area, where more than a dozen regional partners help bring connected… read more →
