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Heads up Dorothy – and your little dog, too. In today’s business environment, instead of worrying about lions, tigers and bears (oh my!), employees are endlessly under siege by a trio of distractions at work that are stealing focus, robbing energy, and paving the way for chronic under-performance: email, IM and chat. Now, this isn’t...
Over the last several years, professional service organizations (PSOs) have experienced an unprecedented level of disruption and change – and employees hoping that the journey ahead will (finally!) offer a nice stretch of peaceful, easy sailing need to reset their expectations: because it is all hands on deck as both competition and customer expectations surge....
In its 2016 Professional Services Maturity™ Benchmark, Service Performance Insights notes that in response to shifting human capital dynamics, professional services organizations (PSO) must “create a different type of workforce that requires technical and client management competency with equal parts of flexibility, autonomy and accountability.” Naturally, talent management programs must play a major role in...
In the 2016 Professional Services Maturity™ Benchmark survey, Service Performance Insight affirms that human capital alignment – i.e. the ability to attract, hire, retain and motivate a quality workforce – continues to be both a critical objective and a key challenge for organizations. Obviously, both Human Capital Management (HCM) systems and organizational policies are...
In the past, organizations generally did two things in order to plot a course towards customer satisfaction: monitor project plans (e.g. milestones met, deliverables accomplished, schedules followed, budgets adhered), and track customer feedback. However, in recent years customers have developed their own customer satisfaction playbook – and it doesn’t end with plans and feedback. Naturally,...
You open your email to find 427 new messages. While scrolling through subject lines to determine the “most urgent” messages, a text message chimes on your iPhone. Moments later, your landline rings and while on the phone, you get three IMs from co-workers with urgent questions. Meanwhile, you have two reports and a presentation to...
Every day, more businesses recognize the benefits of Planview AdaptiveWork’s innovative, user-friendly project management solutions. From software developers, to healthcare systems, to online marketing firms, organizations around the world are getting their work done smarter and faster with Planview AdaptiveWork’s suite of project management tools. Whether you’re already a customer or are thinking about making...
There’s one thing that sales and marketing professionals neglect at their peril: end users are the ultimate authority when it comes to determining whether product promises are justified – or jokes. And one of the most vivid illustrations of this principle has to do with so-called “killer” project management mobile apps. Why so-called? Because...
Collaboration is one of the biggest topics in project management today. From software developers and accounting firms to creative marketing agencies, companies are discovering that online collaboration tools can help their teams work faster and better. Clarizen, an industry leader in project management software, offers one of the most comprehensive and easy-to-use online collaboration tools...
In the serious and structured world of project management – where buying staples has an audit trail and lunch is seen as a deliverable – it’s strangely common for project mangers to find themselves thrust into portfolio management. There they are, happily rolling past milestones and religiously reading the Planview AdaptiveWork blog (right?). And then...
