The leadership team, having taken their expertise and resource to come up with a strategic plan, financial plan and business goals often loose site of the assumptions and dependencies having built up their plans.  Building up your plans from actuals, firm supply and demand along with forecasts is a challenge often left to Excel and an enoumous effort. In leveraging QlikView you not only get your planning informatino compiled but what-if analysis and self documentation of your assumptions and dependencies. Having all this documented allows for accountability throughout the year.