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Align Strategy and Execution
Turn Strategy Into the Way You Run the Business
Almost every organization has a strategy. Far fewer can implement it. The choices get made at the top — where to play, how to win, what to grow — and then stall, because nothing connects them to the decisions the business makes every month. Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is the operating model that closes that gap: It turns strategic choices into a funded, owned plan and runs it through one monthly decision-making cycle across commercial, supply chain, product, and finance. Ollie Accelerator, our intuitive best-in-class solution, is available to our IBP clients to surface the data that matters the most to your overall strategy and business plan, reducing time to results.
These two solutions are the difference between having a strategy and executing it consistently.
Our Solutions
Execute With Confidence
Strategy creates value only when the business can operate it, adapt it, and perform under changing conditions. These capabilities help your organization do exactly that.
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Oliver Wight pioneered Integrated Business Planning and helped define the discipline as it is practiced today. For decades we have helped global organizations replace fragmented planning, competing priorities, and siloed decisions with one integrated operating model.
We work alongside your leadership team to connect strategy to execution — translating strategic choices into a funded plan, assigning clear ownership, and building the monthly decision-making cycle that keeps the whole business aligned. The result is sharper visibility, faster decisions, stronger accountability, and better performance.
For individuals who want to deepen their understanding of IBP, we also offer Integrated Business Planning Executive Education
Ollie Accelerator is our powerful, proprietary cloud-based IBP software built to help our clients break down siloes, shrink planning cycles from months to days, and accelerate decision-making by bringing key data forward instantly.
Available exclusively to Oliver Wight clients as part of a transformation engagement, Ollie Accelerator helps speed time to results and enable our clients’ journey to business excellence. Across departments, it identifies patterns, correlations, and emerging risks, then translates into clear, dynamic visualizations that support faster, more confident decision-making. This technology also enables organizations to model and evaluate multiple scenarios — ranging from supply chain disruption and demand volatility to equipment failure, facility downtime, and financial uncertainty. With data in one place, teams anticipate change earlier and respond with greater confidence and speed.
Make the Number Easier to See, Plan For, and Realize
Three disciplines turn strategy into results, and they work best together. The strategic plan sets the direction. Operationalizing strategy turns that direction into a funded, time-phased plan to deliver it. And strategy deployment runs and governs the work, managing the seven value funnels so the business grows profitably and always has ready funnels to close gaps. Integrated Business Planning is the operating model that connects all three and runs them on one monthly cycle across a rolling 24-month-plus horizon.
When IBP is driven by a clear strategic plan — operationalized into a time-phased plan of volume, value, and investment, carried through effective strategy deployment, and powered by seven value funnels managed for the sufficiency and health of every portfolio — making the number becomes far easier to see, plan for, and realize.
Operating with all three in place, your organization gains:
- Early line of sight to the number: The path to target, and the gaps to it, are visible while there is still time to act
- Capital that follows strategy: Every growth investment is tied to a portfolio role and a funded plan, not the loudest voice in the room
- Credible commitments: A plan time-phased in volume, value, and investment, and grounded in operational reality
- A ready pipeline for growth: The seven value funnels are managed for sufficiency and health, so the business can grow profitably and close gaps as they emerge
- Strategy that stays live: Reviewed, course-corrected, and deployed every month inside the IBP cycle, instead of sitting on a shelf
- Faster, more objective decisions: Strategy, demand, supply, and finance all working from one integrated plan
- The agility to absorb disruption: Reset the plan without losing strategic direction
And with Ollie Accelerator, your organization can work from a single set of numbers, test scenarios, and take action to close gaps.
IBP SELF-ASSESSMENT
How Mature Is Your IBP Capability?
Over 90% of organizations have a strategy. Far fewer have the alignment, visibility, and decision-making discipline to operate it consistently. Our self-assessment shows where your planning capability sits today — from strategy that is defined but never deployed, through strategy that is fully operationalized and integrated into how you run the business. It identifies where your strengths are real, where the disconnects are, and where the next improvement will create the most value.
WHY OLIVER WIGHT?
The Source of Modern IBP
Since 1969, organizations worldwide have turned to Oliver Wight to solve their toughest planning and execution challenges. Our advisors are former operators — business leaders and practitioners who have implemented IBP and the Ollie Accelerator inside real companies and lived through what it takes to make change stick. We bring practical experience, not theory: proven operating models, hard-won judgment about where execution breaks down, and the discipline to help your teams build planning capabilities that deliver measurable operational and financial results. From diagnosing performance risk to designing the future-state operating model, we work shoulder to shoulder with your leadership to build plans that are actionable, scalable, and built to perform in real conditions.
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It’s Time to Elevate Strategy Execution
If your organization is ready to move from disconnected planning to coordinated execution — from strategy on the slide to results in the business — we are ready to help you build the capability to make it happen.