Finance Transformation: - Why It Should Pay for Itself in Months—and Usually Doesn’t, presented by

When:  Feb 24, 2026 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (ET)
Finance Transformation: Why It Should Pay for Itself in Months—and Usually Doesn’t, presented by Dean Sorensen.🔷

Dean Sorensen is the founder of the IBP Collaborative, a consultancy that helps manufacturing and supply chain driven organizations to transform and integrate their planning and performance management (P&PM) processes to achieve dynamic cost, profit and value optimization. Dean has previously worked at A.T. Kearney, Accenture and KPMG. He holds a BBA from York University [in Toronto🍁 ], is a Chartered Accountant [in Canada🍁 ] and is also certified in production and inventory management [CPIM] by APICS.

Integrated planning is the foundation of modern finance transformation. When finance and operations truly work as one, organizations can manage complexity, convert strategy into 💰 profitable growth, and continuously optimize costs—while cutting planning costs by up to 50% and collapsing budgeting cycles to less than one month. Executed well, it delivers real economic control, improving 💲 cash flow and profits—often by as much as 5% of sales.
Many organizations spend years ❗“transforming” ❗ without seeing such results. Traditional 💲 financial planning methods and solutions 💲 create only the illusion of integration, locking in silos instead of breaking them. Planning remains fragmented, trade-offs stay hidden, and decisions having the greatest impact on value are often wrong. Adding to the confusion is integrated business planning (IBP) ⚙️ a manufacturing-specific process that frequently lacks the 💰 financial rigor and enterprise reach to optimize costs, profits, direct cash flows and ♻️ ESG outcomes.
This webinar cuts through the hype to show what fundamentally changes when planning is genuinely integrated—and why the results are immediate, measurable, and self-funding within months.
In this webinar, you will learn:

✅Capabilities that differentiate them from traditional processes
✅Key changes enabling them to dynamically optimize costs, profits and cash
✅Maturity model that defines them, along with closely related ESG capabilities
✅Process and technology innovations enabling self-funded implementation
✅Finance and planning transformation roadmap that achieves them
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Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) | IMA Europe | Akomu Omoye Okoh | Arriane Steffi Bacon, CMA (U.S.), CLSSGB | Dean Sorensen | Hessel Brouwer | Gary Cokins | Larry White | Steve Wofford | Deborah Devos🔹| Lissa Shihab, CMA(US)®| MBA Mikhail Pilosyan

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