Are You Building a Collaborative Culture?

A collaborative culture is crucial for building high-performing teams and organizations. Many employees prefer to work collaboratively, but fostering teamwork is not just about making employees happy. Successful collaboration also drives better business results.  For example, a study by i4cp, the leading human capital research firm, showed that high-performing organizations are 5.5 times more likely to encourage and reward collaboration....

Adaptability in Business: Accelerating Strategy Execution During Changing Times

Global benchmark study uncovers how some companies rapidly innovate and thrive under changing conditions, while others simply “get by” without evolving Adaptability in business is crucial today: Is your company among the elite that can respond effectively to change, at speed? A new global study commissioned by Planview, found a category of “Strategy Execution Leaders”...

What is Agile Program Management?

Agile Program management is an approach through which multiple projects are managed simultaneously, in an effort to help organizations achieve strategic priorities. These aims could include increasing revenues, improving customer satisfaction, reducing customer churn, accelerating the speed of product development, enhancing brand awareness, improving employee engagement, and the list goes on. However, there are scenarios...

Resource Management Plan: What it is, Why it Matters & How to Get it Right

Among the most important – and indeed, also the most challenging – aspects of project and program management is developing, executing and optimizing a resource management plan. What is a Resource Management Plan? A resource management plan is typically composed of multiple documents, and addresses the following core objectives: Centralizing and streamlining demand intake. Optimizing...

Business Agile Methodology: An Introduction

When a good idea surfaces within an industry, it’s only a matter of time before people outside the industry take notice and start looking for ways to apply the idea in their own work. The concept of project management itself is a perfect example—while it was once confined to a few fields such as engineering...

What is Project Management?

On the business landscape, perhaps no other concept has undergone as much change and evolution in recent years as project management. Indeed, with so many organizations – from small firms to large enterprises – running multiple projects these days, the question “what is project management?” might be better phrased as “what isn’t project management?” Still,...

Project Management vs. Program Management

If you are frustrated with trying to clearly understand the differences between project management vs. program management, then be assured you are not alone. There are a couple of reasons for this ongoing confusion. The first is that many professionals work on both projects and programs – if not necessarily simultaneously, then concurrently (e.g. after...

5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Attempt To Build Your Own Flow Metrics Tool

Over the last year, restaurants (like most companies) have been forced to think creatively about how they continue to serve customers without physical interaction. In the UK, many of our favorite food outlets, from the delicious pizzas of Franca Manca to the high-end Indian delights of Dishoom, are creating bespoke packages to enable us to...

The Value Stream Management Consortium (VSMC): A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

I am excited to write about a new strategy to help organizations adapt more effectively to the intensified digital-first world. From improving time-to-market to operating more efficiently as an organization, software-driven innovation has never been more critical to business success; software has gone beyond accelerating everything we do to actually being what we do. That’s...