app01 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:05:07 +0000 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) FEI Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Lodestar Solutions” https://feipodcast.fireside.fm/tags/lodestar%20solutions Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400 Financial Executives International presents the FEI Podcast: an audio digest focusing on the ideas and strategies in finance and accounting. en-us episodic Discussions and thought-provoking ideas from Financial Executives International Financial Executives International Financial Executives International presents the FEI Podcast: an audio digest focusing on the ideas and strategies in finance and accounting. no business, finance, accounting, strategy Financial Executives International info@financialexecutives.org Version 1.32: Budget Season’s Real Problem Is Alignment https://feipodcast.fireside.fm/193 b0e28fc5-cae0-4ed1-bf90-50639b2b7751 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400 Financial Executives International full Financial Executives International IBM’s Ryan Langenbrunner and Bill Primerano join Michael Bernaiche of Lodestar Solutions to explain why budget season is an alignment problem, how finance should govern AI spending, and why requirements must come before any software demo. 51:11 no <p>If your budget is technically accurate but disconnected from where your company is headed, you don’t have a numbers problem – you have an alignment problem. In this sponsored episode of the FEI Podcast, Ryan Langenbrunner, Worldwide Leader for Planning Analytics with IBM’s Chief Data Office; Bill Primerano, Worldwide CTO for AI Analytics at IBM; and Michael Bernaiche, Director of AI Analytics Software at Lodestar Solutions, draw on decades of experience on both sides of financial planning.</p> <p>They discuss how IBM moved from 120-slide control books and multiweek review cycles to a daily close, why a “single” budget that reached version 1.32 shows the limits of accuracy without timeliness, and why AI in finance should be treated as augmented intelligence with a human in the loop. The panel also explores who should govern AI spending and ROI, the cost of falling behind on planning technology, how to avoid being won over by a shiny demo, and why the best time to start writing your planning requirements is during this year’s budget cycle.</p> <p><em>This episode is sponsored by Lodestar Solutions. Host Heather Cole is the founder and owner of Lodestar Solutions.</em> Special Guests: Bill Primerano, Mike Bernaiche, and Ryan Langenbrunner.</p> budget season, FP&A, IBM Planning Analytics, alignment, forecasting, AI in finance, augmented intelligence, AI governance, AI ROI, Excel, SaaS, planning requirements, scenario planning, CFO, financial leadership If your budget is technically accurate but disconnected from where your company is headed, you don’t have a numbers problem – you have an alignment problem. In this sponsored episode of the FEI Podcast, Ryan Langenbrunner, Worldwide Leader for Planning Analytics with IBM’s Chief Data Office; Bill Primerano, Worldwide CTO for AI Analytics at IBM; and Michael Bernaiche, Director of AI Analytics Software at Lodestar Solutions, draw on decades of experience on both sides of financial planning.

They discuss how IBM moved from 120-slide control books and multiweek review cycles to a daily close, why a “single” budget that reached version 1.32 shows the limits of accuracy without timeliness, and why AI in finance should be treated as augmented intelligence with a human in the loop. The panel also explores who should govern AI spending and ROI, the cost of falling behind on planning technology, how to avoid being won over by a shiny demo, and why the best time to start writing your planning requirements is during this year’s budget cycle.

This episode is sponsored by Lodestar Solutions. Host Heather Cole is the founder and owner of Lodestar Solutions.

Special Guests: Bill Primerano, Mike Bernaiche, and Ryan Langenbrunner.

]]> If your budget is technically accurate but disconnected from where your company is headed, you don’t have a numbers problem – you have an alignment problem. In this sponsored episode of the FEI Podcast, Ryan Langenbrunner, Worldwide Leader for Planning Analytics with IBM’s Chief Data Office; Bill Primerano, Worldwide CTO for AI Analytics at IBM; and Michael Bernaiche, Director of AI Analytics Software at Lodestar Solutions, draw on decades of experience on both sides of financial planning.

They discuss how IBM moved from 120-slide control books and multiweek review cycles to a daily close, why a “single” budget that reached version 1.32 shows the limits of accuracy without timeliness, and why AI in finance should be treated as augmented intelligence with a human in the loop. The panel also explores who should govern AI spending and ROI, the cost of falling behind on planning technology, how to avoid being won over by a shiny demo, and why the best time to start writing your planning requirements is during this year’s budget cycle.

This episode is sponsored by Lodestar Solutions. Host Heather Cole is the founder and owner of Lodestar Solutions.

Special Guests: Bill Primerano, Mike Bernaiche, and Ryan Langenbrunner.

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