FP&A has always been strategic, but teams got buried in analysis work. AI automates that grunt work, freeing them to actually influence strategy and operations instead of just crunching numbers.
I think FP&A is the through line from strategy to operations. It's the one thing that connects the strategy and operations, and that's Financial Planning and Analysis. That didn't change. It's going to continue to be like this, and it's just going to get stronger now because now we have more tools to make that happen. Does it make sense that probably before we were already entitled to be that through line, to be that connection between strategy and operations? To be honest, we were overloaded. It's so so much analysis that we had to do that it was almost impossible to cover everything. What AI brings to the story is that now it's possible. Now we can amplify what we can do, and I'll get to that later, but it's actually the essence of what AI is bringing to the table right now.
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