The bigger you are, the harder the budget is to pull together

The bigger you are, the harder the budget is to pull together.

It’s also why you have to bring it together.

But a budget is not complete until you have laid out the financial plan.

you can speak to it at the customer level – what is the mix?

You can speak to it at the capability level – How does your marketing, sales, scheduling, and production/delivery need to perform?

You can speak to it from a resources perspective – Do you have enough of the right kind of skills in place?

You can speak to it from an improvement perspective – What major changes do you need to make over the next year?

What assumptions have you made?

Have you done a pre-mortem? (You have a 30% better chance of success if truly discuss all the things that could go wrong in the plan).

Can you see your annual plan that way?