5 articles about Capital Planning, in reading order.
Capital Planning
Somebody needs to buy something, and finding out whether they can takes a fortnight of emails. Here is one forklift truck going through a company of forty people, from the question to the page the board reads.
Capital Planning
You ask for two laptops, and two weeks later the answer comes back: wrong budget. Here is one request that goes round once, because the page says what it needs and what's left while it is being filled in.
Capital Planning
Anything over five thousand pounds goes to the finance director. Says who? Here are a company's spending limits in one list, moved the day it decides, with the next request going to someone else.
Capital Planning
The second van has been ordered. Thirty thousand pounds. Who said yes? Here are three requests decided, with a row left behind for every decision: who, when, at what level, and what they said.
Capital Planning
The budget meeting is in ten minutes. How much is left? Here is one page with every budget line on it: what it was given, what's promised, what's spent and what's left, and a line that moves when somebody says yes.
