With uncertainty being the new norm, the “set it and forget it” budget is a thing of the past. Companies increasingly need to become “activist allocators,” requiring an ability to pivot quickly and make informed decisions based on trustworthy, insightful data available in real time.  Hear from Kyle Frazer, the COO/CFO of Agilion Systems – a leading advisory and SaaS platform helping companies, governments and militaries worldwide detect and assess emerging trends, threats and opportunities – on how finance and operations teams can bring the concept of war gaming to their companies. It’s a proven approach that can help you be best prepared for the unpredictable and to appropriately balance risk with opportunism.  In addition, we’ll briefly look at the strategies being deployed by the most successful companies, including scenario planning and zero-based budgeting, and the technologies that make them work. 

Topics will include:

• Current trends and spending forecasts in capital planning
• Overcoming “wait and seeism” (decision paralysis)
• How war gaming can help Capex stakeholders bring a more agile, balanced approach to capital allocation/re-allocation, project selection and forecasting
• Best practices for uncertain times: including what if scenarios, zero-based budgeting, rolling forecasts and capital reallocation