Your path to business agility
A project proposal outline serves many purposes. It’s a common document that project managers may be asked to create to state the case for a project and give stakeholders an idea of what they will be getting involved in. Knowing how to create a project proposal successfully will also allow a PM to champion the...
We have a long drive ahead, 12 hours in fact, and it will only take us a short way along the Eastern coastline of Australia. Having just arrived back from Tasktop HQ in Vancouver, BC where we have been discussing the Flow Framework™, I’m excited to tell my passengers (my wife and family) about the...
As a worldwide leader in resource-saving technologies like offshore wind turbine construction and combined-cycle turbines for power generation, a major provider of power transmission solutions, and a pioneer in infrastructure solutions and automation, Siemens considers innovation “its lifeblood.” In fact, the 170-year-old company produces an average of 38 inventions per day, a number powered by...
By necessity or design, a growing number of organizations are embracing the concept of business agile. Not necessarily as a project management methodology, but as way to enable flexibility and rapid decision-making. At least, they’re trying to. Unfortunately, many organizations are experiencing an unintended and unwelcome consequence on their journey to the business agility promised...
Despite the continued uncertainty and political stasis brought about by Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, or Brexit as it is known, the country’s economy is bucking all trends and going from strength to strength, with one of the biggest signifiers of this being the fact that unemployment in the UK is at all-time...
“When you’re finished changing, you’re finished,” Ben Franklin once said. The founding father probably understood that change, while difficult, is vital to innovation. But all too often organizations embrace the warm blanket of inertia. What if we could instill change in the workplace as a daily routine? Like brushing your teeth? The trick is building...
Businesses today depend on technology to innovate, develop, and advance new products and services making application and technology portfolio management a critical discipline. Nationwide Building Society has taken their application portfolio management practices to the next level by improving stakeholder visibility to invest in technology that effectively supported their business. Here’s their story… About Nationwide...
Are you interested in networking with other innovation professionals and learning about best practices in R&D allocation? Here are three conferences we’ll be sponsoring in the coming months: Unleashing Innovation, June 13 and 14, Amsterdam This conference is cross industry, with R&D firms from all over Europe in attendance. We’ve been away for two years...
Transformation is a necessary part of business. It helps companies ensure they provide value to the customer. Organizations have always explored new ways to transform the way they work, but it’s only recently that many started applying Lean principles. And it’s not by coincidence, either. Lean principles have helped many successful companies, including Nike and...
Tasktop at Agile Israel 2019 Tasktop is thrilled to be a sponsor of Agile Israel 2019, Israel’s main conference for Agile and DevOps, which takes place next week (May 21, 2019) at the Lago Event Hall in Israel. Be sure to stop by the Tasktop booth to learn more about the power of Value Stream...
