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Planning silos - Apliqo

Your organisation's planning functions operate in silos, leading to a disjointed plan.

As an organization scales, it needs to slowly decentralize its planning and performance management.  This is a natural progression as each team chases its own specific objectives and needs to align it’s planning to those.  In an ideal situation, these different planning functions are all pushing in the same direction and add up to a bigger picture that represents the totality of the business.

However, that doesn’t always happen.  Often, planning breaks into silos that don’t interact with each other – leading to misalignment and a range of other challenges.

Your organisation's planning functions operate in silos, leading to a disjointed plan.

As an organization scales, it needs to slowly decentralize its planning and performance management.  This is a natural progression as each team chases its own specific objectives and needs to align its planning to those.  In an ideal situation, these different planning functions are all pushing in the same direction and add up to a bigger picture that represents the totality of the business.

However, that doesn’t always happen.  Often, planning breaks into silos that don’t interact with each other – leading to misalignment and a range of other challenges.

Why does a disjointed plan slow growth and create internal conflict?

When your planning is disjointed, you’ll find that your various teams work across purposes as they all seek to optimize for their specific objectives.  Instead of finding ways to collaborate and co-create, teams become internally focused and forget about the bigger picture that they’re a part of.

From the organisational perspective, this results in unnecessary duplication, sub-optimal resource allocation, and a confusing public-facing persona for customers.  

The imbalances that are created can be really damaging to your long-term potential and make it that much more difficult to grow and scale your operations.

Executing a highly focused and aligned plan across all your units is a superpower that can take your organisation to the next level.  But it doesn’t just happen on its own.  You need to build the systems that enable it at scale.

Why does a disjointed plan slow growth

and create internal conflict?

When your planning is disjointed, you’ll find that your various teams work across purposes as they all seek to optimize for their specific objectives.  Instead of finding ways to collaborate and co-create, teams become internally focused and forget about the bigger picture that they’re a part of.

From the organisational perspective, this results in unnecessary duplication, sub-optimal resource allocation, and a confusing public-facing persona for customers.  

The imbalances that are created can be really damaging to your long-term potential and make it that much more difficult to grow and scale your operations.

Executing a highly focused and aligned plan across all your units is a superpower that can take your organisation to the next level.  But it doesn’t just happen on its own.  You need to build the systems that enable it at scale.

How Aplico can help integrate your planning capabilities

One of the main reasons that Apliqo has proven itself such a valuable tool for clients of all sizes is its ability to integrate a wide variety of planning into one holistic system.  Due to the nature of the way that it is built, you can combine the planning methodologies and measurement techniques into a single workflow that everyone contributes to.  This allows for efficient and coherent planning that serves the long-term goals that you strive towards.

When your technology actively breaks down your internal silos, it naturally drives towards better collaboration, a deeper understanding of the macro-objectives, and creates insights about new optimisations that can benefit all.  

So, when you use Apliqo, you’ll not only get a sophisticated and all-encompassing planning platform, you’ll also discover that it can unearth things about your business that you never knew were there.

It connects the dots and makes sure that everyone is pulling in the same direction.  If that sounds like something your organisation needs, be sure to get in touch today.  Let’s get you on the path to integrated planning and analytics sooner rather than later.

How Apliqo can help integrate

your planning capabilities

One of the main reasons that Apliqo has proven itself such a valuable tool for clients of all sizes is its ability to integrate a wide variety of planning into one holistic system.  Due to the nature of the way that it is built, you can combine the planning methodologies and measurement techniques into a single workflow that everyone contributes to.  This allows for efficient and coherent planning that serves the long-term goals that you strive towards.

When your technology actively breaks down your internal silos, it naturally drives towards better collaboration, a deeper understanding of the macro-objectives, and creates insights about new optimisations that can benefit all.  

So, when you use Apliqo, you’ll not only get a sophisticated and all-encompassing planning platform, you’ll also discover that it can unearth things about your business that you never knew were there.

It connects the dots and makes sure that everyone is pulling in the same direction.  If that sounds like something your organisation needs, be sure to get in touch today.  Let’s get you on the path to integrated planning and analytics sooner rather than later.

Break apart your silos for good with Apliqo FPM

Book a call today and let’s explore how a unified planning system can supercharge your operations.

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Häfele logo
Ardex logo

We’re proud to have helped these companies plan better.

Break apart your silos for good with Apliqo FPM

Book a call today and let’s explore how a unified planning system can supercharge your operations.

Faber Castell logo
Häfele logo
Ardex logo

We’re proud to have helped these companies plan better.

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