Your path to business agility
Sales professionals often face team collaboration challenges—they want information at their fingertips, fast, and when they need it. Whether it be information about current deals, win/loss stories, competitive information, training, or sales enablement materials, using traditional tools like email and spreadsheets can slow collaboration and disrupt the sales cycle. So, how can mangers break down...
Every organizational culture (and sub-culture) has its own nuances — some of which may hold keys to getting your crowd to give you their best thinking. Understanding these nuances will help you formulate the right questions to ask when it comes to tapping into the collective intelligence of employees. Asking the right question is the...
We’re excited to launch the Planview AdaptiveWork Bot and make it widely available to our US customers. The Planview AdaptiveWork Bot is simple to use, easy to communicate with and proactive in how it provides alerts. Here’s a little background on why we created the Bot in the first place. At Planview AdaptiveWork, we noticed...
The ‘Requirements Management’ process underpins top-rate enterprise software delivery as it ensures your customers consistently receive value from their software applications. Or in other words, they receive the product/product features they asked for that will hopefully fulfill their business needs. That’s what software delivery at scale is all about, right? With that in mind, it makes...
Like many small banks, the Exchange Bank in Santa Rose, California, found itself managing lots of projects without an official project manager in sight. They were also drowning in email, meetings, and spreadsheets—all of which meant project data was difficult to access when it came time to show compliance to bank examiners. Choosing to end...
Organizations often struggle when it comes to effectively managing their IT assets in support of their business goals. That’s why senior management will typically turn to enterprise architecture tools such as Troux 14 for help with high-level strategic planning and road mapping. These tools also help them better understand the cross-dependencies of future requirements—not to...
They were born of an earlier time, simpler days when anything went; it was the 80s, the Wild West era of documents. Spreadsheets were created, initially for numbers, which made sense, but they didn’t stop at just numbers. With the birth of Excel and the hegemony of Windows, these rows and columns spread all over...
The request for proposal (RFP) process often requires collecting answers from multiple subject matter experts to produce a complete deliverable to the prospect—and in my experience, this project planning can get messy, fast, turning your seemingly normal day into a Freddy Kruger nightmare you can’t wake from. Tracking who owns what, making sure you deliver...
If you have worked in a customer-facing position, you know how difficult it can be to effectively allocate the finite resources you have across a myriad of customers. Support tickets that customers submit obviously need to be handled quickly and efficiently, but overall customer project management and success is a delicate balancing act that must...
In an open system of social stratification, it’s important to have companies that are championing social mobility. The UK recently released the world’s first ever social mobility employer index and it’s doing incredible things. The index looks at which UK employers are the most open to assessing and progressing talent from a variety of backgrounds...
