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Closing the Confidence Gap
A practical CFO diagnostic to assess planning maturity across visibility, scenario modelling, and execution. Identify the gaps slowing decision-making, and how to close them.
The planning gap no one talks about: why mid-market businesses are more exposed than they think
Mid‑market businesses sit in a dangerous middle ground: too complex for instinct‑led decisions, but still relying on spreadsheet‑based planning. This planning gap quietly increases risk, slows response, and erodes CFO confidence.
The Excel ceiling: when your most important planning tool becomes your biggest liability
Excel built the modern planning function, but it also quietly limits it. As scenarios take longer to run and risk hides in complexity, CFO confidence starts to fade. This article explores the real cost of...
Why your forecast was wrong again – and why it’s not your team’s fault
Forecasts are often wrong not because teams make mistakes, but because planning cycles move slower than the world around them. This piece explores the structural lag built into traditional FP&A processes, the external shocks that...
The forecast confidence gap: why bank CFOs don’t fully trust their own numbers, and what it takes to close the gap
The forecast confidence gap describes the tension many bank CFOs experience between the confidence a forecast projects and the confidence they actually feel. This insight explores where that gap comes from, assumption drift, disconnected models,...
Basel III Endgame and the Capital Planning Blind Spot: How regulatory change exposes the gap between capital compliance and capital strategy
As Basel III Endgame reshapes capital requirements across the US, UK, and Europe, many banks are discovering a dangerous disconnect between capital compliance and business strategy. This article explores why siloed capital planning is no...
Lesaka Selects Anaplan’s Scenario Planning and Analysis Platform
Lesaka is entering an important period of growth for Lesaka, and utilizing the Anaplan platform will help provide greater visibility across our Group and enable faster and smarter decisions.
Rexel makes smarter decisions with Anaplan
The implementation of Anaplan has delivered significant benefits to Rexel AB, transforming their FP&A processes and empowering them to make smarter, faster decisions.
GWI to accelerate growth with Anaplan & Bedford Consulting
Bedford Consulting, a leading EMEA Anaplan partner and provider of planning solutions and services, is thrilled to announce its strategic partnership with GWI, a global consumer research platform.
The emergence of strategic organisational planning
In the dynamic landscape of finance, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) teams are undergoing a significant transformation. No longer confined to isolated silos, planning is now an organisation-wide activity. As businesses recognise the strategic importance of FP&A,...
