What to Expect Plus Tips to Help You Take Advantage of All Focus 2018 Has to Offer If you haven’t already registered to attend Focus 2018 (www.solverglobal.com/focus) on August 27 – 30, 2018, at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort and Spa, then what are you waiting for? Yes. It might be held one week later than years past, but Focus will bring together BI360 experts, partners and users from around the world to capture those last moments of summer in one of the top California beach towns around. Many come just to experience what they fondly call a “BI360 community reunion,” reacquainting themselves with old colleagues, making new contacts, and enjoying each other’s company while gaining
This article will continue the discussion of improving these tasks and processes and ensuring that the strategy is aligned with the reporting, planning, and analysis. Planning consists of creating both an annual budget and forecasts. A forecast can include a rolling-forecast, five-year forecast, monthly forecast, and a quarterly forecast. The process to put together a budget or forecast can be very complex and time-consuming for organizations, but this section will discuss the best practices of the planning process and how it relates to strategy. For budgeting, a good practice is to create a top-down and a bottom-up budget. The top-down budget should be set as part of the strategy session an
