Your path to business agility
When I started Enrich over two decades ago, my dream was to build a company that helped R&D teams manage uncertainty in new product development. Almost 24 years later, dozens of life science and R&D firms worldwide use our SaaS-based strategic portfolio management tools to leverage the collective wisdom of their staff and make confident,...
“The reality is that delivering technology-based innovation is hard, for multiple reasons but which might be boiled down into one word: complexity,” says Jon Collins, VP of Research at GigaOm, in his recent 2022 GigaOm Radar for Value Stream Management. Value stream management tools do not eliminate the complexity but they do provide mechanisms to...
The best-performing businesses are customer-obsessed — and it’s paying off. That’s according to research shared by Bobby Cameron, a Vice President and Principal Analyst serving CIOs at Forrester®. Technology is transforming in parallel with a firm’s level of customer obsession because traditional approaches to running IT simply can’t keep up with the rapid pace of...
Introduction Objective and Key Results (OKRs) were first implemented by Andy Grove at Intel in the 1970s. John Doerr, who had worked at Intel, brought OKRs to Google in 1999, where they helped fuel massive growth and raise employee morale. Since then, OKRs have become the choice goal-setting method for digital natives and traditional businesses...
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,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
