How VCU Health Sciences leveraged connected planning to drive cultural change, stakeholder trust, and strategic alignment.
Moving from fragmented spreadsheets and siloed reporting to a transparent, unified planning environment is one of the toughest hurdles in institutional finance. But technology alone doesn't solve structural inertia—people and processes must evolve together.
Join us for an inside look at how VCU Health Sciences partnered with Anaplan to transform financial planning and analysis (FP&A) from a routine transactional exercise into a collaborative
vehicle for institutional change.
Rather than relying on top-down enterprise mandates, VCU’s finance team earned widespread campus adoption through a phased rollout:
- Delivering immediate value with targeted reporting tools.
- Eliminating tedious manual consolidation.
- Establishing a foundation of trust, transparency, and accountability across academic and administrative units.
- Driving Organic Adoption: Practical ways to build cross-departmental buy-in without relying on top-down mandates.
- Building Stakeholder Trust: How transparent, self-service financial views turn departmental leaders into collaborative planning partners.
- Phased Rollout Framework: Steps to scale reporting and planning models incrementally for lasting impact.
- Culture Shift: Transforming finance from backward-looking bookkeepers into forward-looking strategic advisors.
