For FP&A in today’s business climate, agile planning is basically the speed and flexibility with which organisations can make adjustments to what it wants to achieve.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower all people and organisations to achieve more. But the company has also been striving to achieve more itself, and xP&A has been instrumental in this pursuit.

It wasn’t long ago that conversations in the FP&A community centred around driver-based planning.

Now, those at the forefront of the field have gone one step further. Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A) marks a new era of planning, with major companies utilising it to impressive results.

In this video, we learn how A.P. Moller – Maersk Group made the transition from traditional budgeting to Rolling Forecasting.

The world is changing, the business environment is changing, and finance needs to re-imagine itself as well. ZBB mindset supports finance teams on this journey by pushing them to deeply understand the business and connect the dots, build relevant insights based on available data, and use a new set of skills to influence the future direction.

Danone is one of the largest multinationals in the world.

How does a company of this size and reach transform its approach to a core business process?

What lessons can we learn from Danone’s implementation of Rolling Forecast?