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Business Decision Support and Budgeting

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Together with my partner Spry AB, I help executive management teams and finance functions move from backward-looking figures to ongoing, business-oriented decision support. The starting point is that budgeting, forecasting, and performance follow-up should be fully connected and used continuously — as support for management and decision-making, not merely as formal reports.

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Many organizations struggle with the same challenges: budgets that are prepared once a year but quickly lose relevance, forecasts that are time-consuming and rapidly become outdated, and reporting that mainly describes what has already happened. There is also often a lack of a shared language around the numbers between management, finance, and operations. Excel is a powerful tool, but it also introduces risks when models become complex, person-dependent, and difficult to maintain over time.

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Our approach focuses on simple and robust models where budgets, forecasts, and actuals are fully integrated. Budgeting and forecasting are built in Spryard Planning and tailored to how the business actually operates, using rolling forecasts, relevant scenarios, and working methods that ensure the numbers are used continuously in management processes. Follow-up and analysis are handled in Power BI, with clear key performance indicators linked to the business and the ability to follow performance from a high-level overview down to detailed insights — without losing context.

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In practice, decision support is not about producing more reports, but about enabling better decisions. I support management and operations in making concrete choices related to growth, change, and efficiency, using models that the organization understands, accepts, and actually uses. This approach is particularly well suited for organizations that want stronger control without launching heavy BI projects, where finance and operations need to work toward the same objectives, and where conditions can change rapidly.

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An initial conversation is always informal and without obligation. The purpose is to understand your situation and assess if — and how — I can contribute to decision support that makes a real difference in everyday operations.