The planning process is usually an integrated mixture of top‐down issues prepared at the senior levels of the organization, and bottom‐up work that goes on within the operating units. A question for this distinguished panel of CPOs is, “How can companies optimally balance the process?”

In global businesses there's often a question about what you can plan for on a worldwide basis and what needs to be managed on a local basis. How does a company know it has an equity or an economy of scale that is truly global?