Good planning is instrumental in improving outcomes across the company: increasing revenue, anticipating market trends, and optimizing resources, to name a few. However, the supporting data to back up these claims has been limited—until now. Our annual benchmarking report investigates how leading organizations accelerate business value through Connected Planning. In The State of Connected Planning, we surveyed over 1,000 planning professionals across all business functions in 45 countries and 18 industries to uncover leading planning trends in finance, supply chain, sales, marketing, human resources, operations, IT, and workforce functions.

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Source: The survey was commissioned by Anaplan and independently carried out by Dimensional Research.
The total sample size was 1036 professionals, each of whom had a responsibility for planning at their organization.
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Top Trends
We talked to over
global leaders
about their
planning practices.
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Here are the
top trends
we heard from planners that
are shaping the future.
Aggressively growing companies plan
more, plan better, and prioritize planning.
Introducing
the first-ever
State of
Connected
Planning
report.
Successful companies use
enterprise-scale solutions.
The right decisions combine
technology, people, and processes.
Advanced analytics
yield better insights.
of aggressively growing
companies incorporate
market data into their plans
within days or weeks.
82%
of companies who put
all of their plans into
action use enterprise-level
planning technology.
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of all respondents say that
planning well is critical to
enhancing revenue, optimizing
resource allocation, and
converting strategies to actions.
97%
The State of
Connected Planning
of survey respondents
believe that machine learning
will have an impact on
the future of planning.
94%