Forum Overview
Led by Dr Robert Kaplan, creator of the Balanced Scorecard and Activity-Based Costing, the forum is designed to help organisations link planning and budgeting to strategy, making strategy more of a continual process and planning a more effective discipline.
If you are a CFO or finance function head and want to align yourself to the business strategy more effectively; or, if you are an executive responsible for strategy formulation or execution, we’re confident that you will find the forum an extremely valuable experience.
Along with Dr Robert Kaplan, Jeremy Hope, Founder of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table, and Professor Werner Bruggeman of Ghent Management School will provide the academic thought leadership at the forum. To hear how the theory translates into practice, you will hear a number of high profile case studies from leading organisations including Allianz, Fortis, Statoil, American Express and Scottish Enterprise.
You will leave the Forum with an understanding of a planning and budgeting "steering system" that incorporates tools like balanced scorecards, strategic initiative management, rolling forecasts and Time-Driven ABC to ensure planning provides better insight into decision-making and enables the dynamic allocation of resources in response to business challenges.
Here’s what two delegates said about last year’s Forum:
" A fundamental change, completely lateral thinking; the quantum leap that was never expected.” Conrad Nevers, Head of Management Reporting, Finance, Visa International "
" This event taught me that you should never believe that you know all this world has to offer based on past experience….sometimes you meet people who offer you a view of a bright future!”, Gerry Chandler, Strategy Deployment, Business Excellence, Orange PCS "
