Planning Better in these Challenging Times
Say ‘Good-bye’ to ‘Excel-Hell’!
Thursday 23rd April 2009 at the BAFTA Suites
195 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LN
Situations change quickly in an economic downturn. Your planning process needs to be adaptive and fast!
The next couple of years are going to be difficult. Focus will be on survival.
Understanding, managing and planning for difficult situations such as the need to reduce costs is often put to one side during periods of rapid growth. It is rarely a priority. When times are good, businesses tend to focus on sales and growth planning instead.
In a downturn, cash and costs rise to the top of everyone’s priority list very quickly. Businesses need to be agile to keep costs down and sales activity high whilst adapting to the changing demands of their customers. Scenario-based activity planning becomes critical if you are to come through this recession in one piece.
Being adaptive and having an equally flexible planning process is essential. Crawling through a large pile of planning spreadsheets created by various managers across your business isn’t the best use of your time when tough situations demand quick answers.
Microsoft and Altius have the right solution for managing your business profitability better.
You don’t have the luxury of taking a year to develop a planning solution that might work.
You need a process and solution that enables you to take control of your plans and cater for a variety of scenarios in the space of days rather than weeks and months.
Microsoft and Altius have developed planning solutions
which enable faster planning and performance management based on Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) tools. With our class-leading planning solutions, you can create, model and analyse what your business might look like in the future.
Using Microsoft BI tools, we can help you gain control of this business-critical challenge both quickly and permanently. So, no more ‘Excel-Hell’!
The Agenda
| 9.00 - 9.30: |
Registration and continental breakfast |
| 9.30 - 09.40: |
Introduction (John Gateley, Altius Consulting) |
| 09.40 - 10.10: |
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Scenario-based activity planning: Keynote Speaker (Edgar Figueroa, BP plc) | |
| 10.10 - 10.40: |
BI Roadmap – from ‘Excel-Hell’ to integrated enterprise planning |
| 10.40 - 11.00: |
Questions and Answers |
| 11.00: |
Close |
Book Your Place Now!
Places are strictly limited to 30.
To book your place at this essential business breakfast, please either call Polly Daghorn, the Event Organiser on 01483 418628 or e-mail her at polly.daghorn@altiusconsulting.com.