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One of the more curious things I’ve noticed over the years is that budgets are often approved long before anyone walks into the conference room. That sounds ridiculous, of course. The meeting is on everyone’s calendar. The deck is polished. The assumptions have been circulated. People ask questions. Slides get skipped. Someone inevitably says, “Let’s […]
The traditional budgeting process is broken. We know it, we live with it, and every December or January, we perform the same ritual — copy last year’s numbers, slap on a 3% increase, and call it strategic planning. That’s not strategy. That’s spreadsheet theater. As someone who has spent years entrenched in M&A integration, post-acquisition […]