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The Impossible Horizon Question

Written by Duncan. Posted on May 20, 2011. Filed under Decision-making, IBP, S&OP, StrataBridge. Tagged Assumptions, Choices, Horizon, IBP, Integrated Business Planning, Joined-up Decision-making, Lenses, Long-term, Perspective, S&OP, Sales & Operations Planning, Short-term. 1 Comment.

Looking into the Future - Featured

We’re often asked how long the horizon should be for Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)/ Integrated Business Planning (IBP). 12 months, 18 months rolling, 2 year ends, 24 months, or something else. As usual it … Read More →

Leading S&OP – Beware the Dark Side

Written by Duncan. Posted on May 9, 2011. Filed under Change, IBP, Leadership, S&OP, StrataBridge. Tagged Cross-functional, IBP, Integrated Business Planning, Leadership, Managing Change, S&OP, Sales & Operations Planning. No comments.

S&OP - Beware the Dark Side

If you are reading this because you found StrataBridge via a Google search, you are quite possibly a supply chain professional thinking about how best to develop Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) or Integrated Business … Read More →

Trade-offs – in B&W or Colour?

Written by Chris. Posted on May 7, 2011. Filed under Decision-making, IBP, Ideal World, Innovation, Laws & Principles, Leadership, S&OP, StrataBridge, Strategy. Tagged Behaviour, Both/And, Change, Choices, Collaboration, Creativity, Cross-functional, Culture, Entropy, Innovation, Joined-up Decision-making, Lenses, Objectives, Perspective, Priorities, Questions, Trade-offs. 2 Comments.

Making trade-offs is an integral part of developing meaningful strategies, a critical element of owning a particular space in your customers’ mind, and a powerful means of focusing your organisation on what to do to … Read More →

Ignore them or respect them.. Three Laws.

Written by Chris. Posted on May 6, 2011. Filed under Decision-making, Featured, IBP, Laws & Principles, S&OP, StrataBridge, Strategy. Tagged Behaviour, Change, Culture, Entropy, Fast-moving, Joined-up Decision-making, Lenses, People, Perspective, Principles, Process, Processes. 10 Comments.

Three Laws

The StrataBridge approach has been forged by forces working on us all. While these forces often go unnoticed, ignored or misunderstood, they are so pervasive they shape our environment and condition our behaviours

Both a noun and a verb.

Written by Chris. Posted on May 6, 2011. Filed under Featured, Ideal World, StrataBridge, Strategy. Tagged Both/And, Bridge, Created Future, Current Reality, Gap, Ideal World, Real World, Strategic Thinking. No comments.

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While other consultancies talk “strategy”, but soon revert to short-sighted, tactical, tinkering with the status quo, StrataBridge help you create the bridge from your real world to your ideal world.

We’ll probably never work with each other.

Written by Chris. Posted on May 6, 2011. Filed under Featured, Ideal World, StrataBridge. Tagged Best Practice, Created Future, Current Reality, Ideal World, Managing Change, Performance, Questions, Real World. No comments.

We don’t have all the answers… no one does; but we can help you ask the right questions. We don’t offer any shortcuts… there are none to any place worth going to.

S&OP… IBP… WTF?

Written by Chris. Posted on May 6, 2011. Filed under Decision-making, Featured, IBP, S&OP, StrataBridge. Tagged Behaviour, Best Practice, Collaboration, Created Future, Cross-functional, Current Reality, IBP, Ideal World, Integrated Business Planning, Joined-up Decision-making, ownership, People, Process, Processes, Real World, S&OP, Sales & Operations Planning. 6 Comments.

While we have been intimately involved in the creation, development and use of these types of processes over the last 20 or more years, we think the name game is getting out of hand.