Your path to business agility
A lot has been written about working with millennials over recent years as they have begun to dominate the workplace. Pew Research has estimated that in 2017, 35% of the US workforce was made up of millennials, making them the largest single cohort, with that number only set to grow, especially in leadership roles. This...
If you read parts 1 and 2 of this series “The Complexity of Managing Smarter, More Connected Products” and “Connecting Innovation Investments with Delivery,” you are probably anticipating learning the key to transforming your organization into a top performer like those we’ve cited so far. In part 3 of this 8-part series, we’ll speak to...
FThe world of project management is often renowned for its use of jargon and “management speak” and not in a good way. While we feel it is often given a bad rep, simple terms to explain complex processes just make sense, it also means that any budding PM or even an experienced one, still needs...
The speakers at Tasktop Partner Day 2018 were very informative, and their message was thought provoking. It was very refreshing to hear a message that was focused almost entirely upon client business results (value, cost, quality and happiness) – Henry Potts, Director, Business Development, Melillo Consulting Last week Tasktop ran its first ever Tasktop Partner Day...
For most project managers, success depends on how well they’re able to oversee multiple projects at once. This rings especially true for large organizations, where managers are required to efficiently govern multiple teams located in different departments and sometimes even in different countries. For these enterprise-level projects, inefficiency simply isn’t an option. Missing deadlines or...
The technological advances of the past two decades have rapidly transformed the way the world works, especially in terms of communication, robotics and finance. However, there is one domain of technology that threatens to completely upend the status quo across almost every field of human endeavor: artificial intelligence. Fear has been running high among many...
The following content is taken from the popular whitepaper, “Agile Project Management: What’s the story?” written by Jerry Manas. It’s so good, we wanted to make it free to our readers and give it everlasting life on our blog for your enjoyment. Before reading ahead, we suggest you read part one of this series on...
The process of digital business transformation begins at home, in your organization, and involves technical, operational, and cultural changes that only you can lead. The goal is to create something new, something that connects the digital and physical spheres and enables you to bypass your competition. This requires an ability to connect strategy, planning, execution,...
If you read part 1 of this series “The Complexity of Managing Smarter, More Connected Products,” it probably does not come as a surprise that while innovation investments are on the rise, business leaders are still struggling to align resources and money to their strategic targets. In part 2 of this series, we’ll look at...
Ideating and selecting winning ideas – ideas deemed worthy of further development – is half the battle when it comes to crowdsourced innovation. The other half, which is arguably the most important part of the innovation process, is what you do after you’ve selected the top ideas from a crowdsourced innovation challenge. As you narrow...
