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Planning Capabilities

Strategic and operational planning tools

Build plans your organization buys into

Remove your planning pains

Too many planning tools create confusion, little buy in, resource overload, and failed plans.

i-nexus ends the pain so it’s easy to align strategy and operations to plans that everyone buys into.

Here’s how.

The tools you need

With i-nexus, you’ll build plans that link straight back to your strategy

  • Build the plan

    Build a robust plan within our interactive, intuitive x-matrix tool, taking you from true north to your breakthrough results with a top down and bottom-up approach, so that everyone from corporate through to shopfloor team members contribute to the plan
  • Create captivating goals

    Cascade goals down and up your organization, automatically link metrics and resources to one another, and easily spot planning gaps
  • Add your portfolios

    Create portfolios of improvement priorities, attach strategic themes, and build your proposed projects so that work is tightly aligned to your goals
  • Set your targets

    Get everyone from corporate to the shopfloor involved in a shared direction, with goals and work everyone buys into for greater engagement and enthusiasm
  • Define financial goals

    Define your goal’s financial targets, and avoid double-counting across the organization to accurately display and understand your results
  • Prepare for tomorrow

    Use archive, current, and future state modes to call back to previous x-matrix plans, build a current direction on those insights, and prepare for future scenarios, so that disruption is minimized, and you’re ready to adapt

Plan without limits

Strategic and operational planning can become chaotic as it scales.

Wherever you are in the organization, our x-matrix, balanced scorecard, and portfolio tools help you create strong, balanced plans.

Breathe life into
your plans

i-nexus brings your plans out of the dark folders and spreadsheets they once sat in

One location,
one plan

i-nexus is the place to build
your plan, portfolios, and projects – creating alignment for every employee for a shared vision and mutual goals, error-free and visible to all

Connect and align everything

The i-nexus x-matrix is the simplest way to connect every element of your plan, creating alignment and confidence in everything strategic and operational in your organization

Crystal clear visibility

Build clear goals with set owners, financial and non-financial metrics, and add owners, all inside an interactive, intuitive, and reliable solution that cuts the complexity out of planning

The benefits of using i-nexus for strategic planning

Experience strategic and operational planning how it always should have been

Greater planning transparency

Plan more effectively

i-nexus is the undisputed view of all your plans.

Feed goals down and throughout the organization chart.

Collaborate and build projects to bring that plan to life.

Give your team clarity on how their work feeds into strategy.

And when it’s time to start the planning cycle again, you’ll have a copy of the previous period’s plan to work from.

Embed your processes

i-nexus gets everyone from corporate to the shopfloor involved in the strategic planning process.

However you name your planning processes, i-nexus digitalizes them.

You’ll replicate your processes so they’re not lost in the chaos of spreadsheets and emails, but found and embedded within the same tool that everyone’s using.

And if you don’t know where to start with, we’ll run through our “W” catchball process.

Health check your plan

Check your plan’s health

With everything feeding into i-nexus, leaders can easily review any plan’s health.

Whether it’s your performance targets, the mix of your portfolios, or something as simple as a project missing an owner, you’ll easily see it in i-nexus.

Spot issues in your plans before they’re live, or even as they’re being excecuted, and you can address them – leading to more confidence in closing your strategy to execution gap.

Continous strategic planning

Plan continuously

No plan should sit idle.

Operating conditions change, markets evolve, and you need to adjust.

Free up time for strategic thinking so you can easily plan for future scenarios based on performance data and a fresh x-matrix canvas.

i-nexus makes continuous planning a reality.

We’re helping these leaders transform strategic planning

Manufacturing | USA

“Too much time was wasted, and our manual process was prone to error.”

What they loved about i-nexus:

  • Multi-level x-matrix planning encouraged the involvement of teams and leaders in goal and project setting, in turn aligning the entire business to one direction
  • Having a single source of truth for delivery, with crystal clear visibility on the shape, depth, and dependencies of work across the organization

Today, they’re automating the deployment of more than 500 goals, 700 KPIs, and 11 projects across 14 business units – and counting.

Private Equity | Europe

“Our Execution Framework is critical, but we were struggling to manage it.”

What they loved about i-nexus:

  • Interactive planning with the x-matrix provided a tool to drive strategy deployment and follow-up within portfolio companies and FSN – in accordance with the framework
  • Strategic thinking was encouraged across the companies thanks to having a common set of strategic and operational tools

Today, they’re running strategic planning for 17 portfolio companies, with greater collaboration, engagement, and accountability in their process.

Helping every part of the organization

Whatever you do, i-nexus helps you achieve your goals

Executives

Experience absolute clarity of performance across strategic and operational work, realize benefits, prove financial impact, and build your culture of achievement

Directors

Orchestrate your plan, keeping mindful of delivery warning signs, resource shortage, adherence to best practices, all with the ability to adapt your plan without complexity

Managers

Keep your teams on track and aligned to the plan, drastically cut your reporting time, and simply be in control of delivery with dashboards, workflows, and more

Teams

Contribute strategic value through your work, help to drive efficiencies and eliminate waste, while developing your skills with templates and processes

Finance

Use i-nexus for a clear line of sight between strategic and operational work and financial benefits, underpinning forecasting and management reporting

Trusted by global organizations

The place to deliver your goals

Discover the better way to plan your goals

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