Stories from Reality
Beyond Budgeting – Rethinking How We Manage Organizations
Beyond Budgeting is a progressive set of leadership principles and management processes proven to free organizations of “command and control” cultures and improve performance.
Beyond Budgeting is challenging the two main assumptions behind traditional management: that the future is predictable and that people can’t be trusted. Beyond Budgeting is a tested and proven management model that helps organizations perform better by being more adaptive and people-focused.
Beyond Budgeting offers effective command and control management alternatives, including traditional Budgeting. The 12 Beyond Budgeting principles strongly focus on coherence between what is said and what is done in organizations.
Beyond Budgeting, implementations vary in scope, from budget process improvement to broader organizational transformation. If your organization is on an agile transformation journey, there is no way around addressing the budgeting process and mindset. Beyond Budgeting is Business Agility in practice!
Bjarte Bognes has experience in Finance and HR from international companies. He headed up the implementation of Beyond Budgeting at Equinor and has led a similar initiative at Borealis, one of the companies that inspired the Beyond Budgeting model. Today, he runs his consultancy, Bogsnes Advisory.
Bjarte is Chairman of the Beyond Budgeting Roundtable (BBRT), a popular international business speaker and Beyond Budgeting coach, and winner of a Harvard Business Review/McKinsey Management Innovation award.
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