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3 weeks ago | 
fpa-trends.com | Michael Coveney
Agile Planning: From Traditional Planning to Scenario Management June 3, 2025 Traditional planning is typically a rigid, corporate, financially focused framework for developing strategies, setting goals, and allocating resources. For most companies, it includes the rituals of annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and monthly reporting based on an assumed predictable future with one set of goals. Consequently, it lacks the flexibility needed for today’s uncertain world.
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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Michael Coveney
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Coveney
The English Stage Company at the Royal Court is world-renowned for having launched a radical phase in English playwriting in the mid-1950s. But equally significant was the concomitant overhaul in British theatre stage design, and William Dudley, who has died aged 78, was one of its outstanding new stars.
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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Michael Coveney
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Coveney
It was once said of the actor Barbara Ferris, who has died aged 85, that she was the only one of Joan Littlewood’s girls at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, in London, who started out working-class and ended up middle-class. Her father had a milk round in Soho after the second world war.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Coveney
Like his fellow Broadway composers Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, Charles Strouse, who has died aged 96, had a classical music education. But his breakthrough hit – for which he won his first Tony award – with lyrics by his early career collaborator, Lee Adams, was Bye Bye Birdie (1960), a satirical take on the new teenage culture of rock’n’roll, with reference to the kerfuffle surrounding Elvis Presley’s call up to the US army.
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1 month ago | 
ca.style.yahoo.com | Michael Coveney
John Gale became director of the Chichester Festival theatre in the 1980s, rescuing it from near collapse with a rigorous policy of classic comedies and star-casting.Photograph: Nobby ClarkThe elegantly rumbustious West End theatre producer John Gale, who has died aged 95, made his name and his fortune when, in 1971, he produced the longest-running comedy of all time, No Sex Please, We’re British, by Alistair Foot and Anthony Marriott.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Coveney
The elegantly rumbustious West End theatre producer John Gale, who has died aged 95, made his name and his fortune when, in 1971, he produced the longest-running comedy of all time, No Sex Please, We’re British, by Alistair Foot and Anthony Marriott. The play ran for 17 years in all, first at the Strand (now the Novello) and then the Garrick, with Michael Crawford giving the stage performance of his life as the fraught and frazzled bank clerk overrun with unwanted parcels of pornography.
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1 month ago | 
fpa-trends.com | Michael Coveney
How AI/ML Will Transform FP&A May 6, 2025 AI/MLis increasingly part of our everyday lives. In the same way that mobile phones, the Internet, and apps have transformed communication and shopping habits, AI/ML is transforming the way organisations function, touching every business process along the way. That change includes FP&A and the role it plays in supporting management.
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2 months ago | 
fpa-trends.com | Michael Coveney
Combining AI Insights and Human Expertise to Transform FP&A April 24, 2025 In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, organisations are increasingly turning to Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Generative AI to gain a competitive advantage. For FP&A professionals, the convergence of AI with human intelligence is essential to address complex financial challenges and drive strategic decision-making.
