Integrated business planning is not a project you kick off and close after a few months. It is an evolution in the thinking of your users.

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Marcin Kubica sits down with business analyst Grzegorz Ostwald to unpack integrated business planning (IBP), from departments working in silos to one planning process built on the same data.

Hear why one list of products instead of five is often the easiest first step, how a revenue target turns into sales, marketing and production plans, why an implementation never starts in all departments at once, and why educating users is often the hard part of the project.

Chapters:

0:00 Intro: IBP is not a one-off project

0:49 What IBP is: a process of making decisions

1:16 Inefficiencies before IBP: departments in silos

2:10 Excel, email and other tools instead of one database

2:43 From "my Excel" to one reliable database

3:24 Why KPIs give different results

3:45 First step: one list of products instead of five

4:10 The IBP universe: from strategy to operations

4:48 From a revenue target to production plans

5:29 The planning cycle: plan, review, reconcile

5:44 How an IBP implementation starts: analysis first

6:38 Start with master data, not all departments

7:03 A roadmap first, tools second

7:18 Is the business ready? Educating users

7:46 Current IBP work and wrap-up

Talk to Grzegorz about IBP requirements: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ostwaldg/

Talk to Marcin about your business challenge: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcinkubicaquality/

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