The way it is being touted in the press you would think that the BI related Sales and Operations Planning (SOP) is the latest new approach to managing business performance. In fact SOP is close to a 40 year old business process that allows aggregate planning to be assessed and passed down to specific finished goods planned in manufacturing companies. The early forms used planning bills of material and rough cut profiles in Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRPII) systems to generate top down plans and bottom up assessment of performance. This along with excellent master scheduling business processes were best practices …read more

I write about what I am interested in. My experience and passion are about helping executives innovate and execute strategies through projects. The types of projects that fascinate me are those that enable business processes through technology in an extremely valuable way.
So, who is my audience? I would think anyone who, like me, is involved with performing projects, linking projects to strategies, and those defining, assessing and carrying out projects and strategies. It’s not just large companies. Small companies, even two man software firms, can benefit from the discussion generated here.
One thing is becoming clear: there is a gap between …read more