By Rand Heer, founder and architect of the original Pillar software, now president of Alight Planning

      Your company's ability to plan tactical moves and analyze strategies will be based in great part on how well you understand the performance drivers of your business. This rubber-meets-the-road workshop focuses on the practical aspects of building driver-based financial models for budgets, rolling forecasts and strategic plans. Case materials focus on: driver-based revenue, headcount and capital planning; integrating actuals data and trends into forward projections; and best practices for updating plans, testing assumptions, and translating insight into action.
      Key Topics:

• Architectures and processes underlying driver-based planning
• Translating operational metrics into financial models
• Integrating actuals for activity analysis and forecasting
• Analyzing variances using volume/rate causal analysis
• Understanding driver impacts using sensitivity and scenario analysis
• Translating planning insight into action for organizational change