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Starting S&OP: The First Ninety Days
Sebastian Bitter - Monday, June 29, 2026
The first ninety days decide whether an S&OP initiative sticks. A minimal viable process needs one product group, one monthly meeting, three people and one number. The recurring pitfalls are organisational rather than technical.
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Value Streams and SCOR: Two Lenses on the Same Supply Chain
Sebastian Bitter - Thursday, June 25, 2026
Value streams (S2P, P2P, O2C) and SCOR are two established lenses on a supply chain. They overlap on the core flow (Plan ≈ S2P, Source + Make ≈ P2P, Deliver ≈ O2C), but set different accents. The differences show where each lens has its strengths.
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Vertical Departments, Horizontal Value Stream: Why the Supply Chain Runs Across the Organisation
Sebastian Bitter - Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Companies are organised into departments. The supply chain runs across them. The same departments appear in multiple value streams. S&OP is the mechanism that makes the horizontal connections visible and manageable.
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Re-Think Your Operating Model with AI
Oliver Grasl - Monday, June 22, 2026
Many operating models live in slide decks, spreadsheets and the heads of senior people. Here is how we turn one into a computational knowledge graph you can question — built live, with AI as a co-modeller.
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S&OP is Not a Silo: How Sales & Operations Planning Fits Into the Value Streams of the Supply Chain
Sebastian Bitter - Monday, June 22, 2026
A supply chain can be broken down into value streams: Sense-to-Plan, Plan-to-Produce and Order-to-Cash. The S&OP process is part of the first one and a planning error in it propagates through the entire chain.
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Strategy Mapping: The Missing Link Between Ambition and Execution
Burcu Bayram - Thursday, June 18, 2026
Strategies don't fail because the ideas are wrong. They fail because the connection between ambition and daily action breaks down. Strategy mapping makes this connection explicit, turning vision, goals, strategies, tactics and capabilities into a shared, navigable knowledge graph that the entire organization can read and act on.
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Sales & Operations Planning: When the Plan Falls Apart
Sebastian Bitter - Monday, April 20, 2026
Disruptions are not the problem. Missing structure turns a disruption into a problem. The same disruption can be a catastrophe or a non-event depending on market conditions. Context decides.
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Sales & Operations Planning: The Planning Matters More Than The Plan
Sebastian Bitter, Hieu Dang - Monday, March 23, 2026
No forecast is perfect and no order strategy wins every time. Companies that plan regularly are still better prepared for the unexpected. What matters is having a process that enables switching strategies when the situation changes.
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AI-Powered Enterprise Digital Twins
Tolga Üge, Hieu Dang - Tuesday, October 21, 2025
How we created an intelligent digital twin using generative AI and knowledge graphs.
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Generative AI That Understands Your Enterprise
Oliver Grasl - Tuesday, September 23, 2025
GenAI can be made far more valuable for enterprise transformation by connecting it to knowledge graphs that capture specific organizational context.
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Transformation to an Agile Product Mentality
Burcu Bayram - Sunday, December 1, 2024
Agile product development – The transformation to an agile product mentality
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Solving The Beer Distribution Game
Oliver Grasl - Sunday, January 15, 2023
A data-driven approach to solving the Beer Distribution Game
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A Step-By-Step Walk Through The Beer Distribution Game
Oliver Grasl - Sunday, September 18, 2022
An overview of the first 8 weeks of the game, the dashboard and the key performance indicators
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Simulating The Beer Distribution Game
Oliver Grasl - Tuesday, November 16, 2021
A stock and flow model of the Beer Distribution Game that can be used to analyze game dynamics
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Ten Key Principles of Digital Transformation
Max Erdrich - Sunday, January 24, 2021
An overview of digital transformation and its ten key principles and how we can learn from rising tech companies and other business transformations
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How to Deal With Requirements in Flawed Projects
Igor Tunjic - Sunday, August 2, 2020
Some examples of what can go wrong with requirements management in large, distributed projects and how to fix this.
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Mobility Business Models in Times of AI And Digitization
Max Erdrich - Monday, July 9, 2018
An overview of technological trends in the transformation of the mobility market and underlying business models.
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Key Benefits of Business Prototyping
Oliver Grasl - Thursday, March 16, 2017
A brief summary of the key benefits of business prototyping
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An Example to Illustrate The Business Prototyping Methodology
Oliver Grasl - Friday, March 10, 2017
An example to illustrate the business prototyping methodology
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Business Prototyping Building Blocks
Oliver Grasl - Tuesday, February 28, 2017
An overview of the building blocks that make up the business prototyping methodology
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Key Aspects of the Business Prototyping Methodology
Oliver Grasl - Wednesday, February 22, 2017
An overview of key aspects of the business prototyping methodology
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Our Business Prototyping Methodology
Oliver Grasl - Friday, February 17, 2017
Introduction to the business prototyping methodology
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Ten Key Principles of Business Transformation
Oliver Grasl - Tuesday, September 6, 2016
A conceptual model that puts the principles into perspective
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Make Your Professional Service Firm Grow (Part IV)
Oliver Grasl - Tuesday, July 26, 2016
A simulation model to analyze growth scenarios in professional service firms
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Make Your Professional Service Firm Grow (Part III)
Oliver Grasl - Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Maximum growth, steady growth and oscillations
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Make Your Professional Service Firm Grow (Part II)
Oliver Grasl - Wednesday, September 16, 2015
A detailed investigation of a simple growth strategy
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Why Change is Inevitable But Progress is Not
Oliver Grasl - Friday, April 10, 2015
An analysis of some internal and internal drivers that force companies to change again and again
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Understanding The Beer Distribution Game
Oliver Grasl - Friday, January 16, 2015
Using Systems Thinking to improve game results
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Make Your Professional Service Firm Grow (Part I)
Oliver Grasl - Friday, February 7, 2014
Growth strategies in professional service firms
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Exploring The Dynamics of Customer Acquisition
Oliver Grasl - Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Applying the Bass Diffusion Model
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Seven Levers That Influence Your Revenue
Oliver Grasl - Friday, November 1, 2013
The dynamics of customer development and seven levers that determine your revenue
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How do You Make Money in Your Business?
Oliver Grasl - Friday, June 7, 2013
The key ingredients needed to create value
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Value Creation Logic
Oliver Grasl - Monday, February 18, 2013
A business model blueprint for professional service firms
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Transaction Model
Oliver Grasl - Friday, February 8, 2013
A business model blueprint for professional service firms
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Value Network
Oliver Grasl - Monday, February 4, 2013
A business model blueprint for professional service firms
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Blueprints And Prototypes
Oliver Grasl - Friday, February 1, 2013
Generic vs. specific, abstract vs. concrete
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A Generic Business Model Blueprint
Oliver Grasl - Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Business prototyping
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The Business Model Concept
Oliver Grasl - Friday, January 18, 2013
Prototyping business models
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Business Prototyping And The Generic Business Model Prototype
Oliver Grasl - Thursday, January 17, 2013
An introduction to business prototyping
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