is a blueprint for business planning, consisting of business planning tools and services to serve small and medium sized businesses in the 21st century. It has been 40 years in the making and encapsulates refinements of prevailing best practices employed by global organizations across multiple generations of technologies & business models in the ensuing years.
global technologically advanced organizations plan for major investment in business, operations, and technology initiatives every year
and yet, business planning is tedious and continues to be developed on rudimentary spreadsheets and slide presentations, resulting from thousands of hours of best effort and guesswork
is a cloud-native platform that enables collaboration by senior executives across geographies, lines of business, departments and functions, using real time decision making methods and tools.
What is Macroplan 2140®?
Macroplan 2140®
Macroplan 2140® attempts to address the technology paradox:
Macroplan 2140®
What can Macroplan 2140® help you achieve?
A business plan should serve as a roadmap for all stakeholders of an enterprise to achieve a set of common objectives, enable effective deployment of resources to maximize enterprise value, and for its people to sustain a purpose-led culture.
Our Value Proposition:
Better Returns = Best resources + Funding priorities <<aligned to>> Most impactful initiatives
1. Shift the focus from planning to decision making.
Macroplan 2140™ simplifies the annual Business Planning Life Cycle (BPLC), eliminates the guess work, and ensures alignment of funding priorities with the organization’s overarching purpose, near term vision and business objectives for the upcoming plan year.
Real time dashboards and analytics enable swift decision making, realignment of initiative priorities and nimble allocation of valuable resources across all initiatives and sponsors spread over multiple geographic locations, serving different client segments, and the enabling business operations.
2. Eliminate wasted investments, missed opportunities and unmet expectations.
The Macroplan 2140™ platform is built on a common taxonomy and real time workflow. Initiative sponsors from lines of business, sales & marketing, technology solutions, technology infrastructure, operations, HR, finance & accounting collaborate in real time, and prepare their annual business plans using a common framework, while retaining their unique characteristics.
This macroplanning method engenders a culture of trust and transparency among senior executives, which then organically proliferates to the rest of the organization.
The basis of the business plan is recalibrated
from ‘Activities’, ‘Resources’ and ‘Capacity’
to ‘Business Propositions’, ‘Initiatives’ and ‘Business Objectives’, within the framework of a robust taxonomy and real time workflow, which is uniformly applicable across all departments, markets and geographies.
Business performance is measured as an aggregation of key metrics for every Initiative, which are monitored and reported vis-à-vis pre-defined baseline metrics.
As a result, organizations get better returns from their investments in human capital and infrastructure.
3. Rethink how resources are allocated to Run the Business (RTB).
Instead of reusing historical budget and resource allocations to RTB, Macroplan 2140™ enables a simplified method to free up high value expertise, so that the best available resources are allocated to the most impactful initiatives.
Optimal resource alignment using simple, yet elegant features in the solution enables the organization to effectively address the backlog of incomplete initiatives, scale and capture new business opportunities, while at the same time provide superior experience to their existing roster of clients on their current slate of products and services.
Executive Management and Initiative Sponsors have real time visibility into potential resource deficits in terms of expertise and capacity.
4. Enter 21st century business planning with innovative estimating models.
The platform comes with robust estimating models, and also accepts outputs from bespoke models. The models are configurable by initiative characteristics, as well as by departmental idiosyncrasies.
The simplified modeling tools eliminate reinventing subjective estimates every year or outright guesswork. The estimates are directly associated with the initiatives and can be reused multiple times.
Multiple versions of estimates across different modeling techniques can be compared in real time.
Project teams like Certainty and Precision. Estimating, however, is an art form governed by Hypotheses and Probabilities. Sophisticated estimation tools (Science) in the hands of a seasoned Program Manager (the Artist) are powerful instruments for a prudent plan.
5. Develop the blueprint for a business plan that predictably helps your business scale.
The Macroplan2140™ platform is designed to reduce the business planning effort for an organization by 50% every year.
More importantly, the resulting plans are expected to enhance enterprise value by orders of magnitude.
Senior executives collectively set the direction, outline business priorities and make critical decisions related to funding and resource allocation. They engage in constructive dialogs on the platform, in real time, to rationalize initiatives and create a Macroplan portfolio of funded initiatives.
The platform is pre-configured and ready for you to begin planning in earnest.
Testimonials
“We engaged Rao Management Advisors to evaluate our existing planning and program management processes, and to help evolve them to the next level. Prakash quickly developed an understanding of our business and proposed a tailored framework that suited our requirements. This allowed each team to understand how their own priorities fit in with the company's overarching goals, and provided a basis on which clear, actionable decisions on resource allocation could be made. Under this new paradigm, planning has gone from a once-a-year chore to an important, ongoing, and value-adding business process, and a key to the scalability of our enterprise.”
- Matthew Kathman, Chief Administrative Officer, oneZero Financial Systems, LLC
“Rao Management Advisors helped us turn our organizational planning processes into a streamlined machine. Prakash coached us to improve our planning to better align with our purpose and vision, and to more confidently communicate our objectives to key stakeholders. He engaged with executives at the company directly, clearly, and often. His mentorship of the program management team will leave a lasting mark on the success of the company. I would recommend his services without hesitation to any company that wants to maximize its organizational planning and execution.”
- Michael Uttley, EVP of Program Management, oneZero Financial Systems, LLC