You often read about one of the biggest business challenges: different business units working in silos. Business partnering is considered one of the means for overcoming it. Last week I found an excellent example of...
In this article I would like to talk about one possible area where cooperation between FP&A and Data management professionals can deliver mutually beneficial results. This area combines two independent concepts from FP&A and Data Management: driver-based modeling and data lineage...
FP&A needs to increase its value for the business and the way to do it is through of business partnering. In this article, I would rather like to address a few practical challenges, the following two in particular: who are FP&A business partners, and how we, FP&A professionals...
Why does a company need FP&A, and what value does it bring to the business? I will discuss some insights which I have gained from looking at it from the perspective of the business canvas model, primarily used in Business Architecture...
The role of FP&A in business has changed drastically during the past few years. ‘Strategic advisor’, ‘change agent’, ‘business partner’ : these terms are very characteristic for the new trends that are arising in the world of FP&A. The subject of building an effective...
Part 2 of the 'FP&A and the three-headed serpent' series. There are three main challenges that FP&A currently dealing with. Data is the first component and is the blood of the whole process. Nowadays, everyone is talking about...
Part 1 of the 'FP&A and the three-headed serpent' series. How far can you go with improving your FP&A practices? Recently, I have encountered a paper by Prophix where the authors are...
"Speak the same business language" is one of the success factors in business communication. A company's business glossary is the [...]
A couple of weeks ago I joined the meeting of the Amsterdam FP&A Board where we discussed the subject of [...]
As promised in one of my previous articles, let us go deeper into the relationship between FP&A and Data management [...]
