{"id":1345,"date":"2017-03-06T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-01-16T19:42:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T19:42:20","slug":"demand-management-resources-to-grow-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/design.brafton.com\/oliverwight\/uncategorized\/demand-management-resources-to-grow-your-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand Management: Resources to grow your business"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"http:\/\/design.brafton.com\/oliverwight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/blog-dm-resources.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Just get assigned to a new role in Demand or Forecasting and not sure where to turn for professional assistance?\u00a0 There is help available!!!!\u00a0 Whether you feel like you are riding the decks of the Titanic, or you need some minor tweaks to improve efficiency, Oliver Wight offers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverwight-americas.com\/demand-management\">services focused on Demand Management process improvement<\/a>.\u00a0 As product manager for Demand at Oliver Wight, I recommend you investigate some resources that you may not be aware of.<\/p>\n<p>Communication is the key to success in managing demand.\u00a0 We offer a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverwight-americas.com\/system\/files\/private\/resources\/management-business-review-palmatier-crum.pdf\">Demand Management Diagnostic Review<\/a> to reveal gaps in your process and then open up dialog with the leadership team as to how to go about closing those gaps.\u00a0\u00a0 If you want to get into more detail on the topic, I recommend reading the book by Coco Crum and George Palmatier.\u00a0 Documented within are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverwight-americas.com\/book\/demand-management-best-practices\">principles and best practices of Demand Management<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As the \u201cresident expert\u201d, I teach our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverwight-americas.com\/course\/demand-management-course\">Demand Management Courses<\/a> along with my colleague, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverwight-americas.com\/teammember\/timm-reiher\">Timm Reiher<\/a>.\u00a0 We\u2019ll walk you through definitions, responsibilities, and how to exploit opportunities and mitigate risk to execute strategy. We discuss collaboration, performance measurements, and the elements of Demand Management excellence.\u00a0 And if that\u2019s not enough detail for you, we have recently launched a new \u201chands-on\u201d workshop, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverwight-americas.com\/course\/demand-labs\">Demand Labs<\/a>, a series of selected modules that mimic real life challenges that planners, forecast analysts, and others experience every day. One example we walk you through is how to incorporate inputs from various departments, plan at the aggregate level, and translate those plans into your detailed plan through the use of breakout exercises.<\/p>\n<p>I welcome you to explore these services.\u00a0\u00a0 If you would like to discuss your company\u2019s particular challenges and difficulties or discuss investment in any of our offerings, you can reach out to me.\u00a0 Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverwight-americas.com\/teammember\/todd-ferguson\">https:\/\/www.oliverwight-americas.com\/teammember\/todd-ferguson<\/a> to find my contact information. \u00a0Todd Ferguson, Principal, Oliver Wight Americas<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Demand Management: Resources to grow your business<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just get assigned to a new role in Demand or Forecasting and not sure where to turn for professional assistance?\u00a0 There is help available!!!!\u00a0 Whether you feel like you are riding the decks of the Titanic, or you need some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10684,"featured_media":1346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/design.brafton.com\/oliverwight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/blog-dm-resources.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/design.brafton.com\/oliverwight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/design.brafton.com\/oliverwight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/design.brafton.com\/oliverwight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/design.brafton.com\/oliverwight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/design.brafton.com\/oliverwight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/design.brafton.com\/oliverwight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2837,"href":"http:\/\/design.brafton.com\/oliverwight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions\/2837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/design.brafton.com\/oliverwight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/design.brafton.com\/oliverwight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/design.brafton.com\/oliverwight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/design.brafton.com\/oliverwight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}