Your path to business agility
As technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, organizational work silos are no longer viable. A growing hybrid and remote workforce has shown the need for clear communication and collaboration across teams. The dismantling of silos is especially crucial in companies that produce physical products involving cross-functional teams that need more efficient ways of...
The World Bank has a mission to end extreme poverty by reducing the share of the global population that lives in extreme poverty by three percent by 2030 and to promote shared prosperity by increasing the incomes of the poorest 40 percent of people in every country. The enterprise architecture group needed a solution for...
Meeting the demands of ever-changing priorities within a government can lead to inconsistent processes, departments with limited visibility into what is being worked on, and no ability to monitor investments. New Zealand Government, like many other government agencies, was tasked with overcoming these obstacles to develop and manage project and investment portfolios to grow the...
Nobody said transforming the role of the PMO would be easy. You’re not only tasked with delivering programs and projects on time and within budget but also promised value with limited capacity. Worse, the PMO sits between annual planning activities and stakeholders who want to move faster than ever expecting greater agility. Are your annual...
In the first part of this two-part series, “How to Get Away with Murder: Killing Projects Before They Ruin Your Portfolio” I encouraged innovators to courageously commit cold-blooded murder of the ideas and projects that do not achieve the objectives and strategies of the product portfolio based on thoughtful and calculated portfolio criteria all in...
IT PMO groups are under constant pressure to prioritize the “right” projects, balance new incoming demand with their current work load and optimize the use of their resources. Here’s the collection of the greatest hits of 2015 (so far)… I really like these assets because they give IT PMO leaders practical insights, best practices, tips,...
LifeWay Christian Resources was established in 1891 as a way to supply theological content for churches that were in high demand of teaching materials for Southern Baptist Churches. Since then, LifeWay has developed over 186 storefronts and continued to provide teaching materials for students in a way that utilizes modern technology and encompasses an extended...
PPM for Professional Services Organizations is Used to Manage 1,700 Billable Resources and Support New Business Evolution The transition toward meeting the client expectation of deliverable-based billing – as opposed to the more typical, billing by time and materials – is a common issue within professional services. Within a wide array of industries, whether as...
As we begin to tackle everything the New Year brings, I wanted to share this list of informative IT PMO resources from 2013 I thought you may find helpful as you work through your 2014 goals. These resources feature best practices from IT executives in today’s leading organizations, trends from industry analysts, and our own...
As it has been for the past several years, the concern over the state of professional services organizations has not been about if they are going to grow; but rather how. Since 2010, the state of the industry has seen double digit growth in personnel and revenues despite economic and political uncertainty.¹ Of the primary...
