Boutique Connected Planning Advisory

See the full picture.
Then act with precision.

We help organisations unlock the true value of their planning platforms. From CoE design to full Anaplan delivery — advisory that transfers knowledge, not dependency.

15+
Years in planning & transformation
90%
Reduction in manual effort — bonus transformation
100%
Senior expertise, every engagement

Named after a cognitive shift.
Built around it.

The Overview Effect is what astronauts describe when they see Earth from space for the first time — a sudden, irreversible clarity. The systems, the borders, the complexity below — all of it visible at once.

"You see the planet as a whole, and it changes your relationship with it permanently."

— The astronaut's cognitive shift, 1987

That is how we approach every engagement. Before recommending anything, we understand the full landscape — the data, the processes, the people, and the politics. We work from the overview down. Only then do we go into the details that matter.

THE OVERVIEW EFFECT

Every planning pain has an owner.
We know how to find them.

Our work reaches across functions — wherever planning inefficiency creates cost, delay, or strategic blindness.

Finance
CFO / VP Finance
Forecast cycles that take weeks. Reporting that contradicts itself. Planning models nobody trusts. You need integrated numbers that actually close.
Technology
CIO / VP IT
Licences underutilised. Platform delivery stalled. Business units building workarounds. You need a platform that earns its cost and belongs to the organisation.
Planning
CoE Lead / Planning Manager
One person understands the model. Demand is increasing. Backlog is growing. You need structural resilience — not more firefighting.
Commercial
VP Sales / SVP Operations
Territory planning done in spreadsheets. Incentive calculations disputed every quarter. Bonus models nobody can audit. You need process you can trust.
Supply Chain
VP Supply Chain / S&OP Lead
Planning silos between commercial and operations. Demand signals that don't reach production. Connected planning that actually connects.
Executive
CEO / COO
Transformation investments underperforming. Technology that was supposed to change how decisions get made — but hasn't. You need the full picture before investing further.

Two service areas.
One standard of delivery.

Whether you need strategic guidance on your CoE or a senior partner to drive an Anaplan programme — we bring the same depth and the same commitment to capability transfer.

Building CoEs that survive their founders.

Most CoEs are built around one person's knowledge. When demand increases, that person becomes the bottleneck. When they leave, the organisation is exposed. We design operating models that hold up under pressure — structurally, not heroically.

  • CoE maturity assessment and structural diagnosis
  • Operating model design — centralised, federated, or hybrid
  • Governance frameworks and rules of engagement
  • Knowledge transfer and documentation programmes
  • Stakeholder alignment and executive communication
  • Platform licence strategy and ROI optimisation
  • Roadmap design and demand management
Starter
CoE Diagnostic
€4,500 – €8,000
Deep assessment of your current CoE structure, governance gaps, and platform utilisation. Delivered as a structured findings report and prioritised action plan.
Programme
CoE Transformation
€15,000 – €40,000
End-to-end CoE redesign. Full operating model, governance framework, capability programme. Typically 3–6 months.
Knowledge
Workshops & Training
€2,500 – €6,000 /day
Targeted working sessions for CoE teams, planning managers, or leadership. Connected planning strategy, maturity models, operational clarity.

Anaplan delivery that ends with your team in control.

A project is not finished when it goes live. It is finished when your organisation can run it, change it, and grow it — without calling the people who built it. That is the standard we hold every engagement to.

  • Full Anaplan implementation and model architecture
  • IBP and integrated planning programmes
  • Sales incentive compensation and territory planning
  • Financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting
  • Workforce planning and HR analytics
  • Supply chain and demand planning
  • Hypercare, rescue, and platform rehabilitation
  • Model audit and technical debt remediation

What makes our delivery different

You work with the person who has delivered these transformations — not a junior team with a senior name on the proposal. Knowledge transfer, documentation, and internal enablement are built into every engagement, not added on at the end.

Our three-step approach

01
Diagnose before designing
We start with the business problem, not the model. Data, process, and people challenges require different solutions — we distinguish between them before recommending anything.
02
Build with transfer in mind
Every design decision is documented. Every capability is explained. We build your team's confidence alongside the model itself.
03
Define done properly
The engagement closes when your team can run, change, and extend the model independently. Not when the last test case passes.

Engagement scope is custom-quoted based on complexity, duration, and the delivery network required. Typically ranges from €20,000 for targeted interventions to €120,000+ for full programme delivery.

Results that belong
to the organisation, not the consultant.

Every engagement is designed to end with your team more capable than when we arrived.

Sales incentives · Medical devices
From spreadsheets to trusted automation — bonus transformation
A global medical device company running incentive compensation across hundreds of employees in Excel. Disputed calculations, delayed payouts, and zero auditability. We redesigned the process in Anaplan, connected it to HR and sales data, and embedded the logic into a model the finance team owns and operates independently.
90%
Reduction in manual processing effort
0
Disputes since go-live
IBP & integrated planning · Global enterprise
Hypercare to self-sufficient — a platform that finally belongs to the business
An organisation that had been in hypercare for eighteen months after a large implementation. The vendor was still on site. The business couldn't make changes without calling them. We embedded for a defined period, transferred knowledge systematically, redesigned the governance model, and handed over a platform the internal team could develop themselves.
18mo
Vendor dependency ended
Full
Internal ownership achieved
CoE design · Large-scale transformation
Rebuilding from bottleneck — a CoE designed to scale
A CoE where all meaningful knowledge sat with one senior person. Demand had tripled. The backlog was growing. The organisation had no documentation, no governance process, and no plan for what happened when that person left. We mapped the knowledge, distributed it, redesigned the operating model, and built a roadmap the leadership could actually execute.
Demand absorbed without headcount increase
Federated
Operating model adopted

What you get when you work
with The Overview Effect.

  • 01
    The overview before the details
    Every engagement starts by understanding the full system — data, process, and people — before recommending anything. The name is not incidental. We work from the overview down.
  • 02
    Senior expertise, every time
    You work directly with the person who has delivered these transformations. Not a junior team with a senior name attached to the proposal. The expertise you evaluated is the expertise you get.
  • 03
    Built to transfer, not to retain
    Our goal is always to leave you more capable than when we arrived. Knowledge transfer, documentation, and internal enablement are built into every engagement from day one — not offered as an optional add-on at the end.
  • 04
    Mission-driven partnerships
    We work with organisations where the work matters — where better planning decisions have real consequences. We are most effective when individual and organisational growth are seen as inseparable.

"A great CoE exists within an organisation that understands the value of what they're building — resources it properly, and has leadership that can read demand and prepare ahead of it."

Jiri Palasek — Founder, The Overview Effect

Jiri has led CoE operations at a global medical device company, built and led Anaplan delivery programmes across industries, and built the knowledge and methods that underpin every engagement The Overview Effect takes on. He is based in Prague and works across Europe.

Ready to see your planning
landscape clearly?

The first conversation is free. We'll listen before we recommend — and if we're not the right fit, we'll tell you so.

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jiripalasek@theovervieweffect.eu

Based in Prague · Working across Europe · Anaplan certified