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SmartsEngine™

Comprehensive software platform for navigating an enterprise that systematically elevates how well the enterprise navigates, so that it becomes a competitive advantage, even a dominant one, like that of a master chess player who is far better at reading and processing the game — and making winning moves.

Each improvement in navigation means more winning moves, fewer losing moves, and better positioning.

Reaching competitive advantage at navigating means evolving your enterprise into the right company in the right markets for the future increases — and ultimately optimizes — growth, performance, and valuation: what every stakeholder dearly wants. 

Built on Enterprise Navigation Science (ENS) — a New Methodology and Field

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The Future Belongs to Those Who Navigate Better

Address a Central and Universal Challenge

Navigating an enterprise in today’s fiercely competitive international markets and industries is a monumental challenge.  Management teams work hard and do everything they can to navigate well.  But they do not treat enterprise navigation as a core competence they can systematically elevate.  SmartsEngine™ changes that!

Systematically Elevate Enterprise Navigation to Competitive Advantage

SmartsEngine™ is a comprehensive, collaborative software platform for planning, decision-making, and navigating an enterprise. It fully incorporates Enterprise Navigation Science (ENS) — a new methodology and field.  As an enterprise uses SmartsEngine™, ENS systematically, continuously, and resiliently elevates its ability to navigate and evolve. 

SmartsEngine™ enables management teams to systematically elevate navigation so that it becomes a competitive advantage, even a dominant one, like that of a master chess player who is far better at reading and processing the game — and making winning moves.  

Increase and Optimize Growth, Performance, and Valuation

Each improvement in  navigation ability means more winning moves, fewer losing moves, better positioning.  Getting better than the competition at navigating and evolving your enterprise into the right company in the right markets for the future increases — and ultimately optimizes — growth, performance, and valuation: what every stakeholder dearly wants.

Seize a New Way to Compete, Win, and Prosper

The opportunity to systematically elevate enterprise navigation may be the most missed and underestimated opportunity for competitive advantage and value creation today. SmartsEngine™ is not just a new platform — it’s a new way to compete, win, and prosper.

Meets and Engages an Enterprise at its Current Processes

At implementation, SmartsEngine™ is initialized with an enterprise’s current navigation-related processes and practices, and its current understanding of its markets and industries.

Ever-better "Chess Player"

Using the platform then turns the enterprise into a kind of ever-better chess player in its dynamic, competitive markets and industries, ever-better at every part of exercising business IQ and navigating and evolving an enterprise:

  • Reading and processing the game in its markets and industries
  • Seeing and anticipating opportunities, challenges, risks, and threats
  • Formulating and evaluating options for dealing with these
  • Making winning decisions and moves across every aspect of the business
  • Comprehensively learning and evolving with the outcome of each decision and move
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Implement Relentless Improvement on a Robust Platform that Systematically Elevates Navigation Expertise Across the Expertise

Integrated Planning, Decision-Making, Learning, and Evolution

In SmartsEngine™, planning functionality is nested within decision-making functionality, which in turn is nested within learning, evolving, and new idea introduction functionality.  

ENS Operates Across the Enterprise

SmartsEngine™ includes a comprehensive suite of integrated planning and decision-making modules (demand forecasting, inventory, supply chain, resource, operations, Next-Gen FP&A, events, models and assumptions, opportunity and challenge management, options (including real), scenario construction and simulation, advanced analytics, evaluations, decisions) and a comprehensive KPI module that form foundational functionality within overarching ENS methodology.  

Built-in, Quickly-Adaptable, Configuration-to-Customer and High-Performance IT Integration

In terms of IT integration, SmartsEngine™ incorporates built-in systems integration that works with any ERP environment, making initial setup and later changes quick and efficient.

Endgame

Optimize Growth, Performance, and Valuation through Elevating Navigation to Competitive Advantage

Implement in Stages

Start by Seizing Quick Wins with Demand Planning or IBP Implemented within SmartsEngine™

Demand Planning and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) are two navigation functions where SmartsEngine™ can meet an enterprise and immediately provide substantial wins with minimal disruption.

Demand Planning Implemented within SmartsEngine™ Provides:

1.      A demand planning solution that institutes process evolution that systematically elevates demand planning processes and performance, driving ongoing increases in operating margins. It enables an enterprise to elevate demand planning into a core competitive advantage.

2.       Development of expertise with Enterprise Navigation Science (ENS), which sets the stage for expanding its application across the enterprise.

IBP Implemented within SmartsEngine™ Provides:

1.      The benefits mentioned in Demand Planning.

2.     A consummate IBP platform that enables an enterprise to immediately exceed Gartner’s Level V of IBP maturity by supporting Decision-Centric Planning – See Gartner’s Maverick* Research: It Is Time to Move Beyond Traditional S&OP — Introducing Decision-Centric Planning.  The platform maintains a complete, always-current picture of IBP goals, opportunities, challenges, options, thinking, decisions, and plans — eliminating packet prep work and enabling smarter, faster, unified team decisions. It systematically elevates IBP team vision, decision-making, and opportunistic operational agility. This systematically improves alignment of production and resources with profitable and strategic demand — increasing operating margins.  

3.      A comprehensive platform for IBP process definition definition, standardization, adherence, training, certification, efficiency — and systematic elevation and evolution of IBP into a strategic competitive advantage.

Evolve to Elevating Navigation Across the Whole Organization

As SmartsEngine™ proves itself, it naturally grows beyond IBP or wherever it starts to all functional areas and management levels.  In full implementation, SmartsEngine™ is the center-of-excellence platform for enterprise navigation across the organization.  The future belongs to those who navigate better.

The Future Belongs to Those Who Navigate Better


What is the value of out-navigating and out-evolving the competition in markets and industries?

1

Market Leadership and Dominance

By outmaneuvering and out-evolving competitors, an enterprise can secure a dominant position in the market. This allows for greater market share, increased brand recognition, and the ability to set industry standards. Customers often prefer established leaders, and being at the forefront can lead to a snowball effect in market dominance.

2

Loyalty and Trust

 Adapting and evolving with the changing market needs and trends showcases the enterprise’s commitment to providing value to customers. This fosters trust and loyalty among customers, enhancing long-term relationships and reducing customer attrition.

3

Innovation and Product Development

Staying ahead of the competition requires continuous innovation. This commitment to innovation can lead to the development of superior products or services, providing a competitive edge and attracting a broader customer base. Innovative products can also command higher prices, boosting profitability.

4

Cost Efficiency and Process Optimization

Staying ahead of the competition requires continuous innovation and a willingness to adapt to changing market conditions. This mindset promotes a culture of creativity and agility within the organization, enabling it to respond quickly to emerging challenges and opportunities.

5

Resilience and Risk Mitigation

 An enterprise that can navigate changes effectively is more resilient to market disruptions, economic downturns, or unforeseen events. This resilience is critical for the long-term viability of the business and reduces vulnerability to external shocks.

6

Talent Attraction and Retention

A forward-thinking and adaptable company often attracts top talent. Skilled individuals seek opportunities to work for enterprises with a reputation for innovation and market leadership. This cycle of attracting talent further fuels the company’s ability to outperform competitors.

7

Partnerships and Alliances

Companies that consistently demonstrate their ability to evolve and stay ahead of the curve are often sought after as partners. This can lead to strategic alliances, collaborations, and mutually beneficial partnerships that expand the enterprise’s reach and capabilities.

8

Investor Confidence and Financial Performance

A demonstrated ability to out-navigate and out-evolve the competition instills confidence in investors. This can translate to better access to capital, higher stock valuation, and overall financial stability and growth.

9

Global Expansion and Diversification​

A strong market position allows for more effective global expansion and diversification into related or new industries. The ability to adapt to diverse markets is essential for sustained growth and mitigating risks associated with being too dependent on a single market or product.

10

Long-Term Sustainability​

Being at the forefront of market trends and developments positions the enterprise for long-term sustainability. It’s about not only thriving in the present but also ensuring the viability and relevance of the business in the future.

11

Competitive Advantage That Compounds

Enterprises that out-navigate see the game sooner, process it faster, and move more effectively. They anticipate shifts, adapt before others, and capitalize on openings competitors have not yet recognized.

  • Value: Earlier, better-informed moves generate disproportionate returns — both in seizing opportunities and avoiding costly missteps.

12

Sustained Market Relevance

Out-evolving competitors means continuously learning and adjusting faster than they do — in strategy, offerings, and operations.

  • Value: The enterprise remains fit for its environment, even as the environment changes. This is how once-similar competitors fall behind and leaders stay relevant decade after decade.

13

Superior Decision-Making and Execution

To out-navigate and out-evolve is, at its core, to make better decisions and execute better moves across every level of the enterprise — from strategy to operations.

  • Value: Better decisions and execution compound into higher efficiency, better margins, and stronger market positions.

14

Resilience Under Uncertainty

Markets and industries are increasingly volatile. The ability to navigate uncertainty — not merely survive it — is a strategic asset.

  • Value: Out-navigating builds adaptive capacity: the ability to stay coordinated, purposeful, and agile when conditions change, ensuring stability amid disruption.

15

Superior Positioning and Timing

Enterprises that read and process the game better—seeing opportunities, risks, and shifts earlier—position themselves advantageously.
They move before others move, entering markets, adjusting capacity, or reallocating resources with precision and foresight.

  • Value: Consistent first-mover or fast-follower advantages.

  • Outcome: Higher margins, stronger brand perception, and greater strategic control.

16

Better Decisions and Winning Execution

Out-navigating competitors means making better decisions faster and executing them more effectively.
This isn’t about isolated decisions—it’s about the stringing together of winning moves across cycles of planning, action, and learning.

  • Value: A higher rate of winning outcomes per decision cycle.

  • Outcome: Compounding performance gains that widen the competitive gap.

17

Resilience and Adaptability

Enterprises that out-evolve competitors can adapt without losing coherence.
They integrate learning from each decision–execution–results cycle into their core operating model, continuously strengthening their ability to navigate complexity.

  • Value: Durability through market volatility and disruption.

  • Outcome: The enterprise stays viable, vibrant, and leading—even as conditions change.

18

Accelerated Organizational Learning

Out-evolving competitors requires superior collective learning—turning experience into insight faster and embedding that insight across the enterprise.

  • Value: The enterprise becomes a self-improving system.

  • Outcome: Business IQ continuously rises, enabling the organization to operate at a higher level of awareness and competence.

19

Strategic Freedom and Market Shaping

Enterprises that navigate and evolve better don’t just adapt to markets—they shape them.
By anticipating and orchestrating change, they set the terms of competition.

  • Value: Freedom from being trapped in reactive, cost-driven play.

  • Outcome: They create and dominate new opportunity spaces.

20

Compounded Advantage Over Time

The effects of out-navigating and out-evolving are nonlinear and cumulative.
Each cycle strengthens the enterprise’s ability to read, decide, and execute—creating a flywheel of competitive learning and advantage.

  • Value: Compounded performance superiority.

  • Outcome: Competitors fall behind not because they fail once, but because they fail to keep up with the enterprise’s accelerating intelligence.

Summary 

Out-navigating and out-evolving the competition in markets and industries delivers the ultimate competitive advantage — sustained superiority in performance, adaptability, and long-term relevance.  It is the ability to consistently win in the long game — to see the field better, decide smarter, move faster, and learn deeper than anyone else in your markets and industries.


What would it mean for a comprehensive enterprise software platform for navigating an enterprise to fully incorporate Enterprise Navigation Science (ENS)?

Introduction

If a comprehensive enterprise software platform for navigating an enterprise fully incorporates Enterprise Navigation Science (ENS), it means that the platform is not just a tool for managing data, workflows, and planning processes — it’s built around a scientific methodology for how enterprises actually navigate, evolve, and win.

Here’s what that means, broken down point by point:

1

ENS becomes the platform’s organizing logic, not an add-on.

Most enterprise systems (ERP, IBP, CRM, etc.) are designed around functions — finance, operations, supply chain, marketing — and the coordination between them.
A platform that fully incorporates ENS is designed around navigation as an enterprise function — how the organization reads its environment, anticipates shifts, makes and executes winning decisions, and learns from outcomes.
ENS provides the scientific architecture for this process. The platform’s structure, data flow, and decision frameworks all reflect the ENS model.

2

Every planning and decision process is driven by navigation logic.

Traditional systems optimize within silos — forecast accuracy, cost, service level, etc.
ENS integration means every module — demand planning, S&OP/IBP, strategy, portfolio, operations — is unified under a decision-centric, forward-navigating framework.
Instead of just balancing plans, the system continuously improves how the enterprise reads the game and positions itself — aligning plans, decisions, and moves across the entire enterprise.

3

Built-in elevation of Business IQ.

ENS defines the five dimensions of enterprise navigation (reading and processing the game, anticipating opportunities and risks, formulating options, making winning decisions/moves, and learning/evolving).
A platform that fully incorporates ENS has mechanisms — metrics, analytics, simulation, and feedback loops — that systematically elevate these five capabilities as it’s used.
That means the enterprise becomes smarter at navigation itself, not just faster at planning.

4

AI serves the science, not the other way around.

In an ENS-based platform, AI is an aide, not the prime mover.
AI helps implement ENS principles — surfacing insights, evaluating options, simulating outcomes, and feeding the learning loop — but it operates within the ENS framework rather than replacing it.
This ensures that human and organizational intelligence remain at the center of navigation.

5

The platform measures success by navigational performance.

Instead of stopping at operational KPIs (forecast accuracy, cost, margin), an ENS-based system tracks navigational performance indicators — how well the enterprise reads the environment, anticipates, adapts, and executes winning moves.
These metrics close the loop between learning, decision quality, and competitive results.

In essence:

To fully incorporate Enterprise Navigation Science means that:

The software platform operationalizes ENS as its central dynamic — systematically improving how an enterprise reads and processes the game,
identifies and evaluates opportunities and challenges,
makes and executes winning decisions, and
learns and evolves altogether as a more intelligent, adaptive system.

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