Your path to business agility
Agile marketing is constantly evolving, like the Jedi skills of young Luke Skywalker, as new best practices emerge. Meanwhile, traditional technologies need a helping hand to manage industry changes. Enterprises must embrace the fact that agile marketing isn’t optional — it’s essential to staying competitive and appealing to customers. What’s stopping your enterprise from having...
We’ve already taken a good look at the future of management, or should we say “anti-management”? This involves throwing off the shackles and constraints of traditional management structures and hierarchies, which can constrict innovation and places decision-making in the hands of people who might not actually know the most about what they’re deciding on. Many...
Marketing technology is upending the way, and the speed at which marketing teams work with each other; customers, vendors and other teams in their organization. New platforms and technologies are opening up exciting new possibilities for marketers to communicate and engage with prospects and customers more effectively. What’s more, marketing professionals can now almost instantly...
By now, everyone knows that introducing agile methodologies into business operations usually translates into faster deliveries, greater productivity and increased adaptability and responsiveness to change. Everywhere you look, diverse teams in almost every industry are successfully leveraging agile practices to beat their deadlines and achieve their goals. Yet in the world of IT infrastructure and...
Project portfolio management is all about taking a broader view of the projects undertaken by your organization. While there are natural similarities and overlaps with project management, the core objectives of project portfolio management are to improve how projects are executed across the whole organization rather than focusing on delivering one single project. Project portfolio...
Let’s start with this: agile marketing doesn’t mean conventional marketing with an agile flair — or worse, getting rid of plans and managers, and letting chaos reign until a combination of urgency, anxiety, dread, and sheer self-preservation forces people to agonizingly churn out deliverables and get stuff done (and then go on sick leave or...
One of the fields to benefit from the uncertainty that has characterized the UK economy since the Brexit vote in 2016 has been consultancy firms. PwC has announced its biggest profits in a decade, led by a huge increase in demand for consultancy services from firms worried about how Brexit will affect their business. The...
Communication in the workplace can be a minefield with the ability to either elevate or sink productivity, depending on how good it is. So, it’s quite understandable that it’s one of the most important project manager skills. Getting positive results from direct reports can often require a delicate mix of encouragement and pressure, the right...
Having effective leadership skills means being able to get the best out of your team and guide them to deliver on your goals and objectives. For successful project managers, this most often doesn’t mean adopting one specific management style, but rather being adaptable and adjusting their approach depending on the team and context. Some organizations...
Growth is supposedly the goal of all young businesses, later being leveraged into profit as processes are streamlined and cost-bases regularized. However, like any successful seed, growth at all costs and at any time can leave you dying on the vine rather than blossoming in the sunshine of success. Companies face many challenges when seeking...
