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C-suite playbook
Breaking down planning and data siloes to drive growth and resilience.
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CFO
- Protect revenue streams and foster financial health
- Provide a stable platform for business continuity and growth
- Utilize increasing data volumes from disparate sources to create a clear picture for decision making
CSCO
- Bolster the supply-chain process to mitigate risks
- Utilize data modelling to drive costs down within the business
- Find ways of creating increased agility by strengthening the supply chain
CHRO
- Rapidly develop and maintain a workforce that can be moved between office and remote working environments
- Create a strategy for talent acquisition to support business growth
- Nurture a happy workforce by evolving health benefits and compensation to reflect the new normal
CRO
- Build a go-to-market strategy that is resilient to an uncertain future
- Incorporate hundreds of factors in order to accurately predict sales outcomes
- Increase operational efficiencies while sustaining morale and performance
CIO
- Integrate many disparate data sources to facilitate extended planning and analysis (xP&A)
- Increase system automation to save time and reduce the risk of human error in order to create accurate business models and forecasts
- Leverage best-of-breed enterprise cloud platforms to achieve technology goals
Gartner calls it Extended Planning & Analysis (xP&A), we call it Connected Planning
The 2020 Strategic Roadmap for Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions by Gartner concluded that by 2024, 70% of new financial planning and analysis projects would become extended planning and analysis (xP&A) projects, moving their scope beyond the finance domain and into other areas of enterprise planning and analysis.

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