Don’t Let Your Structure Keep Fighting Your Talent 

Your teams are brilliant. They're solving complex customer problems, building innovative solutions, and creating real value every day. But they're fighting your organizational structure to do it.

Integrating Demand Management and Prioritization for Strategic Advantage

Over the past three blogs, we’ve taken you on a journey from identifying the strategic costs of broken processes to mastering demand management and building intelligent prioritization frameworks. Today, we complete the picture by showing why integration—not just process improvement—creates sustainable competitive advantage. Fixing demand management or prioritization in isolation can certainly reduce chaos and...

Strategic Prioritization and Creating Organizational Courage to Say No

In our previous blogs, we explored how broken intake processes create strategic chaos and how adding structure to demand management can move an organization from fire drills to aligned opportunities. Today, we tackle the second half of the equation: turning captured demand into focused action through intelligent prioritization. You’ve filtered out all the pet projects...

Embracing AI at Planview: Our Path Forward Together

We’re living through one of the most extraordinary moments in business history – the rise of AI. This is not just another wave of technology; it’s a revolution that is reshaping industries, redefining customer expectations, and transforming how work gets done. And here’s the exciting part: we are right in the middle of it.

From Inbox Chaos to Strategic Pipeline: Mastering Demand Management

The first blog in this series explored how broken demand management and prioritization processes create strategic chaos and outlined steps to identify where problems exist and how to correct them. Today, we dive deeper into the first half of this critical equation: demand management. Demand management is the process for capturing and governing requests and...

How to Build a Strong and Sustainable Prioritization Practice

Throughout this five-part series, we’ve watched our fictional cleaning robot manufacturer, Garry’s Robots Ltd., transform their chaotic product development process by implementing a standardized prioritization framework. After establishing a data foundation, creating scoring structures, and securing organization-wide buy-in, they’re ready for the final critical phase: making their new prioritization approach sustainable. Even well-designed frameworks can...

The Strategic Cost of Ineffective Demand Management and Prioritization

When everything is labeled “high priority,” nothing truly is. This paradox stems from unbridled project intake and unclear prioritization— two critical challenges facing strategic leaders today. When the project spigot is wide open, transformational initiatives stall unexpectedly, resources scatter across countless efforts with minimal impact, and teams perpetually fight fires instead of building the future....

How to Get Buy-In On Standardizing New Product Prioritization

Even the most data-driven prioritization framework is worthless if your organization doesn’t use it. While executives typically understand the need for better prioritization, resistance often stems from organizational complexity and competing departmental interests. This fourth installment in our five-part series on standardizing new product development prioritization builds on our previous discussions of data foundations and...

The Essential SPM Requirements for Better Business Agility

When markets shift overnight, being able to quickly adapt sets successful organizations apart from the rest. These are the organizations that can fundamentally rethink their strategies and rapidly pivot their strategic investments and resources to capitalize on new opportunities or defend against emerging threats. Consider this scenario: Your competitor launches a disruptive product threatening a...