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How IT Leaders Transformed Budget Season from Chaos to Clarity

How IT Leaders Transformed Budget Season from Chaos to Clarity

Budget season is meant to be a focused period of alignment—where strategy meets financial discipline. But for many IT organizations, it becomes something else entirely: a prolonged, exhausting cycle of spreadsheets, reconciliations, version control battles, and defensive conversations. In a recent webinar, IT and finance leaders from BorgWarner and Graphic Packaging International (GPI)—both Nicus customers using Nicus for IT planning—shared how their organizations transformed budget season from a nearly year-round burden into a structured, trusted, and strategic process. What they [...]

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Gavin Drake

02/19/2026

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