Your path to business agility
In my last post I discussed how product organizations are using ineffective tools to manage their product portfolio and that it’s likely cutting into their bottom line due to inefficient resource utilization and missed deadlines when bringing products to market. Still, how do you know when you’ve reached the tipping point, and when it’s really time...
Company leaders do a lot of different things to operate lean; it’s the one business goal that never disappears from the agenda. And for the past few decades, outsourcing has been the method of choice for getting things done without blowing the annual budget on a single project. As of 2014, the global outsourcing market...
Watching Back To The Future again recently, I was horrified to realize that, at the end of the movie, the professor and Marty use their time machine to travel from 1985 to…wait for it…2015. They traveled 30 years into the future, and I’ve aged 30 years since last seeing the movie. Robert Zemeckis’s vision for The Future doesn’t...
Digital business is changing the rules. It is causing disruption in all industries, and forcing businesses to transform to survive. Many industries are having to shift from selling products to being focused on enhancing the customer experience with a combination of products and services. These digital-led services will become the driver for revenue growth in...
Portfolio management is different from project management in that it encompasses the entire lifecycle – from ideation through the realization of the benefits it set out to provide. Portfolio management includes project management as a phase of the project lifecycle which focuses on, and is best at, the execution phase of a project. But as...
Efficiency gains that come with smart use of technology is certainly recognized by business leaders across the globe. It unlocks valuable time, streamlines business operations and frees companies to grow and succeed. New, independent research by Loudhouse and commissioned by Planview shows that companies without tech-driven productivity strategies are suffering. They are more likely to...
Create a culture that encourages an open dialog around why projects slip, should have never started, and the value of new investments and opportunities.
Awesome new ideas are what make an innovation program…well, an innovation program. But it’s the tools you use that help those ideas become reality and bring about tangible returns — tools like innovation management software (and for some, a new way of thinking about innovation altogether). According to the people who spend their time researching...
Fall and winter is high season for conferences, and we’re excited to be sponsoring five different events across North America and Europe between now and March 2016. We recommend all of these conferences as excellent opportunities to network, learn from your peers, and share your own wisdom on innovation and portfolio management. Boston, October 6-7: 8th...
We’re excited to renew our partnership with Dell Boomi for continued success of our integration services. For the past seven years, Innotas has partnered with Dell Boomi, the industry’s first integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) to simplify the integration between customer business systems and our Cloud Portfolio Management solutions. Since partnering with Boomi, we...
