Your path to business agility
If you or a “close friend of yours” (read: you) is deeply concerned about what was once an occasional fondness for spreadsheets, but has now twisted into something between an unhealthy dependence to a raging addiction, then be assured you aren’t alone. In numerous enterprises around the world and across every industry, dedicated and hard-working...
One-on-one meetings are intended to focus on employee development in an individual sense by taking the time out for a performance review. Unfortunately, these meetings often get postponed, skipped or labeled as a lesser priority because they are usually unproductive. When there are meetings scheduled too frequently or people are ill-prepared, there can be little...
Despite the continuing fallout from May 2016’s Brexit vote, which saw the UK vote to withdraw from the European Union, working in England is still one of the best options out there for anyone looking to relocate professionally. As the 5th largest economy in the world and a global leader in the finance, engineering and...
It happens all the time: you’re working on a project and you get asked to take on another, then another and then another. The prospect of multi project management can be intimidating and fill even the most experienced project managers with dread. Whatever the likelihood of making mistakes while managing a single project, this is...
A recent survey by the GMB Union of 3,500 working Britons revealed that nearly 61% of them suffer from anxiety about not having stable employment. Much like the rest of the modern world, the UK is going through a shift in the way it does business and most importantly, how it employs people. This is...
We’re excited to launch the Planview AdaptiveWork Bot and make it widely available to our US customers. The Planview AdaptiveWork Bot is simple to use, easy to communicate with and proactive in how it provides alerts. Here’s a little background on why we created the Bot in the first place. At Planview AdaptiveWork, we noticed...
They were born of an earlier time, simpler days when anything went; it was the 80s, the Wild West era of documents. Spreadsheets were created, initially for numbers, which made sense, but they didn’t stop at just numbers. With the birth of Excel and the hegemony of Windows, these rows and columns spread all over...
In an open system of social stratification, it’s important to have companies that are championing social mobility. The UK recently released the world’s first ever social mobility employer index and it’s doing incredible things. The index looks at which UK employers are the most open to assessing and progressing talent from a variety of backgrounds...
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an agreement reached by the European Commission, Council and Parliament that provides data security for personal and corporate information throughout the European Union. Though the regulation does not take effect until May 2018, it is a good idea for all enterprises to prepare for the imminent change so...
The concept behind process improvement is creating fluidity in your daily routine. This happens by establishing a consistent and predictable flow of work that is easily directed. A sequence of processes through which a task passes from planning to completion is known as a “workflow” and managing the progression can be demanding. Once you have...
