Your path to business agility
The second quarter of 2017 saw the UK unemployment rate drop to 4.4%, the lowest it has been since 1975. Additionally, the Office for National Statistics stated that employees’ total earnings (including bonuses) rose by 2.1% in a three-month period until June. Despite what financial analysts forecasted with last year’s Brexit, employment in the UK...
OK, so you’ve rolled out a powerful new PPM solution. It’s a beautiful thing ready to be that single source of truth your organization needs. While PPM software is designed to improve portfolio planning and project execution, it needs quality data to work. For project team members, this equates to a weekly timecard. What’s in...
PMO success is no longer just about project execution. Today’s project and program management offices (PMOs) are tasked with driving strategic value to grow revenue along with improving the customer experience and products and services. Instead of being narrowly focused on facilitating portfolio management capabilities, they must also strive to deliver on an organization’s most...
Waiting 12 months to integrate your software delivery value stream can actually cost an organization up to $10 million a year in productivity overhead The modern enterprise has to consider and prioritize a dizzying array of IT business initiatives. Many of these decisions fall to the CIO – after all, they’re responsible for leading an...
Picture this: 10,000 employees and 20 enterprise-wide applications with an average of ten new hires and five exiting employees a week. Now imagine the amount of time someone spends creating, editing, deleting and permissioning all those users and roles across the varying applications they use — ever changing with requests growing by the day. If...
When it comes to annual planning, the PMO and finance department can have complimentary but different needs. While finance is focused on budgets and headcounts, the PMO prioritizes project governance and successful delivery. This often leaves finance in the driver’s seat when it comes to defining new projects, and the PMO is left to follow...
“When digital transformation is done right, it’s like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. When done wrong, all you have is a really fast caterpillar.” – George Westerman, Principal Research Scientist with the MIT Sloan Initiative on the Digital Economy Has there been a more exciting yet challenging time to be a CIO? Bridging the...
Spigit’s full lifecycle idea management software takes a monumental step forward today capping off another year of record customer growth. We’re thrilled to announce the latest product release that boasts enhancements and industry-first capabilities that will enable Planview IdeaPlace clients to take their ideation programs to the next level. Here’s a closer look. Full lifecycle...
Having an effective team is the cornerstone of success for any project manager. Nobody can achieve everything on their own and so building a team that can exceed expectations, or at least keep to them, is vital for any project. This is a lot easier said than done however and knowing how to build a...
Capacity planning is essential when it comes to how to manage resources effectively and efficiently. Businesses who embrace capacity planning find they are more nimble and capable of making sure the right resources are working on the right projects at the right time. Stop struggling with high demand and overcommitted resources. By becoming a more...
