Seems overloaded and creates useless busy PowerPoint work.
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Who is actually useful? Why to blame only planners? Planners are yes men/women and their job is nothing but a glorified PowerPoint efficient secretary.
There’s never enough planners bruh. Making the boss feels good is a multi FTE activity.
Fail to plan, plan to fail
you could have less if VPs get out of their egoboosting habits of asking for way too much data and not tolerating "I don't know" as an answer.
A couple years ago, our friends at BCG benchmarked our strategy and planning function against our peers and found that our staffing across that function was on average 3x the level they considered to be best practice. E.g. we had 9 FTEs covering a business/segment where a competitor might have 3 FTEs.
You need Chiefs too.
Someone has to be there to wipe the brown off their cheeks to move up line.
Don't forget the Advisor for the 3 Planners too...
You need at least three.
Power Point is hard!