Drive Innovation and Focus on Strategic Outcomes that Matter 

To create interconnected products and services that move a company forward, business leaders must continually assess and evolve capabilities while directing cross-organizational coordination between strategy, work, people, technology, and outcomes.   To help drive change and advance strategic objectives, organizations turn to enterprise-wide portfolio planning and delivery solutions such as Planview Portfolios®, which enables strategy execution,...

How Planview ERGs are Encouraging Employees to Honor Juneteenth

June is an exciting and busy month of the year. It is the beginning of summer vacation, PRIDE month, and a monumental holiday. An important holiday that more than a quarter of Americans know nothing about: Juneteenth.   The Planview BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) and the Force for Good ERGs came together to...

A Day in the Life of a SVP of Sales at Planview

Planview has one mission: to build the future of connected work. Our goal is not only to empower our customers to focus on the work that matters most, but also our own teams and there is no denying that when working within a sales organization, collaboration, focus, and communication is crucial to success.   Which leads...

4 Ways to Optimize OKRs

While OKRs are a popular framework for organizations trying to accelerate their digital transformations, traditional enterprises often face challenges when they try to translate their strategic high-level objectives into key results. Last week, Dr. Mik Kersten and Felipe Castro addressed these challenges head-on during a webinar on Transformative OKRs: Translating Business Strategy into Measurable Outcomes....

Drift Happens: Strategic Drift and What to Do About It

As executives, we tend to spend a lot of our time and energy on setting strategy – the direction in which we want the figurative ship to go. We search for inspiration, high upon the mountaintops, and emerge only after we have a direction we feel confident in sharing with the company at large. But...

When it Comes to Transformation, It’s OK to Break the Rules

Digital transformations often start with some common rules of thumb: “Start small.” “Lift and shift workloads to the Cloud.” “Create a proof of concept for your Agile initiatives, and then scale.” But in one of my favorite talks from DOES Europe 2022, Pieter Jordaan, CTO at TUI Group, describes how they accelerated their digital transformation...

Managed Services vs Professional Services: Explained

For services professionals today, there are many discussions centered around the differences between managed services vs professional services, as well as which one is the right fit for your organization. In this blog, we define the following: Key differences between managed services vs professional services Similarities and challenges of both services and what it means...

How to Execute a Project Across Multiple Departments

In this post, we’re going to show you how to execute a project.   You’ve initiated your project, created an in-depth plan, and secured stakeholder buy-in. Now it’s time to execute. Simple enough, right?  Except that, as every PMO knows, project execution is the most challenging stage of the project life cycle, and it’s only gotten...

Leading with Connection: Reflections on Modern Leadership

If there’s anything we have collectively learned in the past two years, it’s that it takes effort to stay connected. Meeting new people, fostering relationships, building trust, collaborating – they’re all certainly possible in a hybrid / remote environment, but they require deliberate, consistent effort. At Planview, we’re very invested in helping businesses stay connected;...

3 Ways to Engage and Accelerate IT with OKRs and Value Stream Management

TIAA, a Fortune 100 financial services organization, manages investments for more than six million clients, totalling more than 1.3 trillion dollars. According to Darrell Fernandes, the Head of Product Technology, the company’s success boils down to its operational strength — an area which Darrell is continuously improving. In Episode 43 of the Mik + One...